With her first smartphone news report, Gisella Rojas Rodriguez has taken the top prize at the Thomson Foundation 2018 Mobile Journalism Competition. An Ecuadorian studying investigative journalism in Mexico, Rodriguez used an iPhone 7 to shoot “The Migrant Bus,” a four-minute mini-doc about migrants seeking a safer place to live. Edited with the Kinemaster app, the movie combines traditional doc shots, such…

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Among the Internet’s most astonishing achievements is the democratization of information sharing. Instead of a handful of news outlets, now millions of citizen journalists cover local and distant news topics using words and videos. Traditionalists worry that untrained reporters and commenters may lack the skills and fair-minded attitude needed to make grassroots journalism authentic.  And that’s one reason that the Mobile…

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