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Top 5 mobile journalism tools

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Bruce McCoubrey
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If you’re a journalist on the go, having the right tools can make difference when it comes to getting the story. Here are the top 5 mobile journalism tools that you should consider adding to your arsenal:

  1. Smartphone: It may seem simple, but a smartphone is the most basic and essential tool for mobile journalism. With a smartphone, you can easily record video, audio, and photos, as well as live-stream events. The camera quality of smartphones has improved significantly over the years, making them a viable option for capturing professional-grade images and videos.
  2. Camera App: Not just the standard camera app that comes with your phone. You need a camera app with manual controls, such as ISO and shutter speed, that can enhance the quality of photos and videos taken with a smartphone. These apps give you more control over your images and allow you to take advantage of the camera’s full potential. Some popular camera apps that journalists use include ProCamera and Camera+.
  3. Audio Recorder App: An audio recorder app allows you to record interviews, audio notes, and ambient sound. This is especially useful for journalists who are covering stories in the field. Voice Memos and Recorder Pro are popular options for iOS and Android devices, respectively.
  4. Video Editing App: A video editing app allows you to edit and publish videos on the go. This is a great option for journalists who need to quickly turn around a story for a news outlet or social media platform. Some popular video editing apps include iMovie, Magisto (now owned by Vimeo), and Adobe Premiere Pro.
  5. Social Media Platforms: Social media platforms, such as Tik Tok, Twitter and Instagram, can be used to share stories and connect with audiences in real time. These platforms offer a variety of tools for journalists, including live streaming, polls, and analytics. With a smartphone, a journalist can easily go live, post updates, and interact with the audience in real time.

It’s worth noting that these tools are not the only options available for mobile journalism. Other tools such as a stabiliser for the smartphone, a microphone, and a drone also have great value. Though these tools do require more capital input.

Mobile journalism is a fast-paced and ever-evolving field, and the tools used to capture and share stories are constantly changing. By keeping these top 5 tools in mind, you’ll be well-equipped to capture and share stories no matter where you are. Remember that the key to success in mobile journalism is to be adaptable and willing to experiment with different tools. This will help you stay on top of your game.

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Ten effective ways to improve freelance writing skills

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Newsdesk Editor
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Freelance writing is a competitive field that requires constant improvement of your writing skills to stay ahead of the game. Whether you’re just starting out or have been freelancing for a while, there’s always room for improvement. Here are ten effective ways to improve your freelance writing skills:

  1. Read Widely

Read widely to improve your writing skills. Read a variety of genres and styles to learn how different writers structure their work and use language to create a compelling narrative.

  1. Write Every Day

Writing regularly helps to build your writing muscle and improve your skills. Set aside time each day to write, even if it’s just for a few minutes.

  1. Take Writing Classes

Taking writing classes can provide you with valuable feedback from instructors and peers, as well as teach you new techniques and approaches to writing.

  1. Attend Writing Workshops

Writing workshops provide an opportunity to learn from experienced writers and receive feedback on your work. They also allow you to network with other writers and build relationships in the writing community.

  1. Use Writing Tools

There are numerous writing tools available that can help improve your writing skills, such as Grammarly for grammar and spelling checks, Hemingway Editor for style analysis, and ProWritingAid for comprehensive editing and feedback.

  1. Practice Writing Different Types of Content

Practising writing different types of content, such as blog posts, articles, and social media posts, can help you develop a versatile writing style.

  1. Seek Feedback

Seek feedback from clients, editors, and other writers. This feedback can help you identify areas for improvement and strengthen your writing skills.

  1. Embrace Rejection

Rejection is a part of freelance writing. Use it as an opportunity to learn and grow, and keep working on your craft.

  1. Collaborate with Other Writers

Collaborating with other writers can help you learn new techniques and approaches, as well as provide valuable feedback and support.

  1. Set Goals

Set writing goals for yourself and track your progress. This can help you stay motivated and focused on improving your writing skills.

Improving your freelance writing skills requires a combination of practice, feedback, and continuous learning. By reading widely, writing every day, taking writing classes, attending workshops, using writing tools, practising writing different types of content, seeking feedback, embracing rejection, collaborating with other writers, and setting goals, you can take your writing to the next level and achieve success as a freelance writer.

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Copyediting for reporters: How to get the basics right

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Copyediting is an essential part of the journalistic process. A well-edited article not only improves its readability, but also ensures that the article is accurate, fair, and free of errors. As a reporter, it’s important to know the basics of copyediting to make sure your work is ready for publication. Here are some tips on copyediting for reporters:

  1. Read your article out loud

One of the easiest ways to catch errors is to read your article out loud. This helps you identify awkward phrasing, typos, and other mistakes that might be missed when reading silently.

  1. Check for consistency

Consistency is key in journalism. Check that you’re using the same spelling and capitalisation throughout your article. Also, make sure you’re using the same style and format for numbers, dates, and times.

  1. Check your grammar and punctuation

Grammar and punctuation mistakes can undermine the credibility of your article. Use grammar and spell-check tools like Grammarly or Hemingway Editor to catch errors. Also, be aware of common mistakes such as subject-verb agreement, sentence fragments, and comma splices.

  1. Fact-check your article

Accuracy is paramount in journalism. Double-check all the facts and figures in your article, making sure they’re accurate and up-to-date. Verify names, titles, and other important details, and make sure you’re citing credible sources.

  1. Check for readability

Your article should be easy to read and understand. Make sure your sentences aren’t too long or convoluted and use simple language where possible. Also, break up your article into shorter paragraphs and use subheadings to make it more visually appealing.

  1. Ask a colleague to review your work

Having a fresh pair of eyes look over your work can help catch errors you might have missed. Ask a colleague or editor to review your article before publication.

Copyediting is a crucial step in the journalistic process. By following these tips, you can ensure that your article is accurate, clear, and free of errors. Remember to take the time to read your article out loud, check for consistency, grammar, and punctuation, fact-check, ensure readability, and ask a colleague to review your work. By doing so, you’ll be on your way to producing high-quality, professional journalism.

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Brand journalism; what is it?

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Newsdesk Editor
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Brand journalism is the practice of using storytelling techniques to create and distribute content that informs, entertains, and engages audiences, with the ultimate goal of building trust and loyalty for a business (or brand). In this blog post, we will explore the concept of brand journalism and its benefits for businesses.

At its core, brand journalism is all about creating content that is relevant and valuable to a brand’s target audience. This content can take many forms, including articles, videos, podcasts, infographics, and social media posts. Crucially it is produced and controlled by brands themselves, rather than relying on traditional media outlets to tell the brand’s story.

One of the key benefits of brand journalism is that it allows businesses to take control of their own narrative. Traditional media outlets may not always present a brand in the way that the business would like. By creating custom content, businesses can ensure that their message is communicated clearly and accurately.

Another benefit of brand journalism is that it helps to build trust and loyalty among a brand’s target audience. By providing valuable and informative content, brands can position themselves as experts in their field. Done well they can establish themselves as credible sources of information. This can help to build trust and loyalty among consumers. In turn, this leads to increased brand awareness, engagement, and ultimately, sales.

Brand journalism also allows businesses to create content that is tailored to the interests and needs of their target audience. By understanding their audience and creating content that is relevant and valuable to them, businesses can build deeper connections with their audience and create a more engaged community around their brand.

In addition to these benefits, brand journalism can also help businesses to improve their search engine rankings. With the rise of search engine optimisation (SEO), it is vital for businesses to have a strong online presence. By creating high-quality, keyword-rich content, businesses can improve their visibility in search engines and attract more traffic to their websites.

Finally, brand journalism is a cost-effective way for businesses to reach their target audience. By creating their own content, businesses can avoid the high costs of traditional advertising, like buying ad space in publications. With brand journalism, businesses can create and distribute content at a fraction of the cost of traditional advertising.

Brand journalism is therefore a powerful tool for businesses that want to build trust and loyalty among their target audience. Or take control of their own narrative, and improve their online presence. Or obviously both. By creating high-quality, relevant, and valuable content, businesses can establish themselves as experts in their field and create a more engaged community around their brand. If you’re looking to improve your brand’s online presence, consider incorporating brand journalism into your marketing strategy.

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Ways to bring data journalism into small newsrooms

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Newsdesk Editor
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Data journalism is a powerful tool that allows journalists to tell stories using data and statistics. However, many small newsrooms may feel intimidated by the idea of incorporating data journalism into their reporting. Here are four ways to bring data journalism into small newsrooms:

  1. Start Small

The key to successfully incorporating data journalism into a small newsroom is to start small. Begin by identifying a specific issue or topic that you want to explore using data. Once you have a clear focus, gather data and begin analysing it to identify any trends or patterns.

  1. Collaborate

Collaborating with other journalists or data experts can help to bring data journalism into small newsrooms. Reach out to local universities, data visualisation firms, or freelance data journalists to find experts who can help you analyse data and create visualisations.

  1. Use Free Tools

There are many free tools available that can help small newsrooms incorporate data journalism into their reporting. For example, Google Sheets and Excel are powerful tools for organising and analysing data, while Tableau Public and Datawrapper can be used to create interactive visualisations.

  1. Focus on Storytelling

The most important aspect of data journalism is storytelling. Use data to uncover new angles and perspectives on issues that are important to your readers. Make sure to tell a compelling story that will capture their attention and help them understand the importance of the data.

Data journalism can be a powerful tool for small newsrooms to tell compelling stories and engage their audiences. By starting small, collaborating with experts, using free tools, and focusing on storytelling, small newsrooms can bring data journalism into their reporting and provide valuable insights to their readers.

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Air Mauritius Wins Best Indian Ocean Airline 2019

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Bruce McCoubrey
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Air Mauritius has won the Indian Ocean’s Leading Airlines 2019 and four other accolades at the 26th Annual World Travel Awards held at the Sugar Beach Hotel, Mauritius. It is the 14th time in 17 years that Air Mauritius has been recognised by WTA as the leading airline of the Indian Ocean.

The following are the distinctions won by Air Mauritius:

  • Indian Ocean’s Leading Airline 2019
  • Indian Ocean’s Leading Airline – Business Class 2019
  • Indian Ocean’s Leading Airline Brand 2019
  • Indian Ocean’s Leading Airport Lounge 2019
  • Indian Ocean’s Leading Cabin Crew 2019

The World Travel Awards, voted by travel professionals and consumers worldwide, is recognised as the most prestigious travel industry accolade. Distinctions were presented to the Air Mauritius Team led by the company’s Chief Operating Officer, Mr Raja Buton.

CEO, Somas Appavou stated “I wish to dedicate these awards to the hard working people of Air Mauritius. It is a recognition of all the efforts put in by our personnel from Ground Services to our crew members on-board, through our administrative staff and maintenance personnel. As a Mauritian company, hospitality is in our DNA and we constantly strive to improve our products and services so that they best reflect the ‘mosaicity’ of our cultural heritage. We are also currently making substantial investments in the modernisation of our aircraft in order to offer the best to our customers. Our priority remains the safety and wellbeing of our passengers and personnel”.

The Air Mauritius fleet now includes two A350-900 delivered in 2017, one A330neo delivered in April this year while a second A330neo is expected in the coming weeks. These new generation aircraft are equipped with full flat seat in Business Class, more comfortable Economy Class cabin with extra legroom, a state of the art entertainment system with audio/video on demand and WIFI connectivity in all classes. Four aircraft (2 A340 and 2 A330-200) of the existing fleet are also being refurbished to offer similar level of comfort.

Air Mauritius is the national carrier of the Republic of Mauritius. Created in 1967, it currently operates a fleet of two A350-900, one A330neo, three A340-300, two A330-200, two A319-100 and three ATR72-500. Air Mauritius presently flies to twenty-two destinations in Europe, Asia, Australia, Africa and the Indian Ocean

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CPJ Journalist Security Guide

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Newsdesk Editor
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The Journalist Security Guide from The Committee to Protect Journalists offers a comprehensive web-based guide that focuses on all elements of safety and response in situations that the media may find themselves in.

This excellent summary is written by Frank Smyth, CPJ Senior Adviser for Journalist Security, with a chapter on Technology Security by CPJ Staff Technologists Tom Lowenthal and Danny O’Brien.

The guide covers:

Basic Preparedness

  •     Foreign Correspondence
  •     Domestic Journalism
  •     Press Credentials
  •     Insurance Coverage
  •     Medical Care and Vaccinations
  •     Personal Precautions

Assessing and Responding to Risk

  •     Security Assessment
  •     Sources and Information
  •     Security and Arms
  •     Sexual Violence
  •     Captive Situations
  •     Responding to Threats

Technology Security

  •     Planning for Safety
  •     Understanding the Threat
  •     Protecting Communications
  •     Defending Your Data
  •     Remote Data
  •     Choosing a Strong Password

Armed Conflict

  •     Security Training
  •     Protective Gear
  •     Embedded or Unilateral
  •     Rules of War
  •     Checkpoints
  •     Satellite Technology in Hostile Environments

Organized Crime and Corruption

  •     Basic Preparedness
  •     Planning an Investigation
  •     Approaching Hostile Subjects
  •     Accessing Information
  •     Collaborative Efforts
  •     Warning Signs

Civil Matters and Disturbances

  •     Accident, Fire, and Rescue Scenes
  •     Crime and Terrorist Scenes
  •     Stories Involving Private Property
  •     Protests and Riots

Natural Disasters

  •     Freelance Risks
  •     Newsroom Planning
  •     Transportation and Equipment
  •     Field Safety

Health Epidemics and Mass Hazards

  •     Basic Preparedness
  •     Protecting Yourself

Sustained Risks

  •     Personal Security
  •     Family Security
  •     Surveillance
  •     Solidarity
  •     Contingency Planning

Stress Reactions

  •     Signs of Stress
  •     Taking Care of Yourself

Click here to visit The CPJ Journalist Security Guide

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Free training resources to the public – thank you BBC!

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Newsdesk Editor
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PHOTO: Tim Loudon on Flickr.  Some rights reserved

This article was published on ijnet.org by Margaret Looney

If you’re in the market for a free journalism education, hundreds of training materials are now at your disposal.

The BBC’s College of Journalism made a slew of videos and guides – initially created to train its own journalists – available to reporters worldwide for free.

You can watch videos and tutorials made by BBC journalists in the field on journalists’ safety, social media, and multimedia techniques, as well as subject and writing style guides galore. Check out the whole library here.

The resources are already available in 11 languages. Arabic, Burmese, Chinese (Simplified), Chinese (Traditional), Hausa, Pashto, Persian, Russian, Swahili, Urdu and Vietnamese. They cover “the essential editorial skills that journalists working in the BBC World Service language departments use on a daily basis.”

Four more languages: French (for Africa), Hindi, Indonesian and Turkish will be available this month.

The resources were already available for anyone to browse, until today the BBC enforced a subscription model for readers to gain full access to all the site’s materials.

But soak up all the free knowledge while you can. The BBC is suspending the paywall only for a trial period of 12 months.

Via BBC College of Journalism

This post originally appeared on the International Journalists’ Network. IJNet delivers the latest on global media innovation, news apps and tools, training opportunities and expert advice for professional and citizen journalists worldwide. Produced by the International Center for Journalists, IJNet follows the shifting journalism scene from a global perspective in seven languages – Arabic, Chinese, English, Persian, Portuguese, Russian and Spanish. Follow along on Twitter, Facebook or with IJNet’s free weekly newsletter.

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AP Stylebook

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This press release was published on ap.org

The Associated Press has released the 2015 edition of The Associated Press Stylebook and Briefing on Media Law, which includes about 300 new or revised entries.

Stylebook editors worked with AP Assistant Sports Editor Oskar Garcia to completely review and update the sports chapter, with guidance and input from AP sports editor Michael Giarrusso. It includes updates on baseball, basketball, football, horse racing, soccer and winter sports.

For the first time, an 85-page index has been added to the back of the Stylebook so that users can more quickly find words and definitions.

At more than 600 pages, the AP Stylebook is widely used as a writing and editing reference in newsrooms, classrooms and corporate offices worldwide.

Among the changes to the 2015 Stylebook are:

  •     Sports updates range from baseball playoffs, basketball’s NCAA Tournament, horse racing, injuries, Olympic Games, race distances, soccer tactics and titles.
  •     New guidance is given on covering suicide in news reports. The phrase “committed suicide” should be avoided except in direct quotations from authorities because it may imply an illegal act.
    Alternate phrases are “killed himself”, “took her own life” or “died by suicide”.
  •     Global warming can be used interchangeably with climate change.
  •     Other new or revised entries include Affordable Care Act; animal welfare activist; autism spectrum disorder; Ebola, execution-style; justify; obscenities, profanities and vulgarities; One World Trade Center; and privacy.
  •     Nearly three dozen new entries, ranging from amaretto to tsimmes, have been added to the Food chapter, and more than a dozen to the Fashion chapter, from Manolo Blahnik to Alexander Wang.

AP Stylebook Online is updated throughout the year with new and revised entries.

AP Stylebook editors David Minthorn, Sally Jacobsen and Paula Froke will answer questions about the new book today at 2:30 p.m. ET in a Twitter chat, using the hashtag #APStyleChat.

The AP Stylebook is available in print and digital formats.

The subscription-based AP Stylebook Online includes all Stylebook listings, plus an Ask the Editor feature with more than twice as many entries as the book itself, a pronunciation guide with phonetic spellings and audio pronouncers, and topical style guides about news events. Users can add their own entries, make notes and get notifications throughout the year when AP’s editors add or update listings.

Stylebook & Webster’s New World Online adds 185,000 definitions from Stylebook’s primary dictionary to Stylebook Online’s subscription website. A single search delivers results from both and clearly identifies the source of each entry.

This year we are transforming AP Stylebook Mobile from a standalone app to an iOS view of AP Stylebook Online. Users can access Stylebook Online via iPhone or iPad, even when they don’t have Internet connectivity. The new app is expected to be available soon.

The 2015 book costs $20.95, or $16.75 for member news organizations and college bookstores. AP Stylebook Online prices are $26 for individual subscribers for one year and $16 for news organizations that are AP members. Prices for online site licenses are based on the number of users, starting at $210 for 10 users for a year. The mobile app is now free to download; users must have an active Stylebook Online account to access the content.

AP works with two technology companies to provide electronic proofing for AP style, and both products are being updated to reflect the latest guidance in the 2015 edition. Tansa offers an AP Stylebook module for its proofing tools, which work with newsroom production systems, and the company also developed AP Lingofy, which proofs text composed in Explorer, Firefox, Chrome and now Safari. AP StyleGuard, powered by Equiom Linguistic Labs, is a plug-in for Microsoft Word and Office that reviews text for AP style.

The new print edition and digital subscriptions can be ordered online at http://www.apstylebook.com.

AP also offers Spanish style guidance with its Manual de Estilo de la AP, an online-only style guide for universal use by publishers, broadcasters and readers from all Spanish-speaking countries, with an emphasis on Latin America and the United States.

Updated regularly since its initial publication in 1953, the AP Stylebook is a must-have reference for writers, editors, students and professionals. It provides fundamental guidelines for spelling, language, punctuation, usage and journalistic style. It is the definitive resource for journalists.

On the Web: http://www.apstylebook.com/
On Twitter: http://twitter.com/apstylebook
On Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/apstylebook

About AP
The Associated Press is the essential global news network, delivering fast, unbiased news from every corner of the world to all media platforms and formats. Founded in 1846, AP today is the most trusted source of independent news and information. On any given day, more than half the world’s population sees news from AP. On the Web: www.ap.org.

Contact
Paul Colford
Director of Media Relations
The Associated Press
212-621-1895
pcolford@ap.org

Erin Madigan White
Senior Media Relations Manager
The Associated Press
212-621-7005
emadigan@ap.org

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