Reuters plans for HD mobile video journalism
By Leah McBride Mensching, Wednesday 28 November 2007 at 23:38 :: World Digital Media Trends :: #920 :: rss
Further developing mobile phone technology will have a “transformative effect on journalism,” Reuters chief scientist told journalists and colleagues at Reuters' Canary Wharf headquarters Monday night.
Nic Fulton, on the phone from New York, talked about the company's ongoing collaboration with Nokia to develop equipment for journalists.
In October the news service revealed it has been experimenting with technological tools, giving reporters lightweight toolkit that gives journalists everything they need to file and publish news from the most remote regions in the world.
“(Nokia and Reuters) believe that mobile technology is evolving extremely fast to the extent that we can see a time, probably not that far out, I'm sure less than five maybe even three years out, when mobile phones could have HD video capability and they could have extremely powerful VPUs and keyboards,” said Fulton, according to Journalism.co.uk. “You might just start saying that's a laptop. I still think that it will ultimately be a very personal mobile device. So clearly there is potential for it to have quite a transformative effect on journalism.”
In the short term, Reuters sees new technology as complementing the tools journalists already have.
Fulton said that with current technology, reporters can use an on-board application, developed by Reuters and Nokia, on N95 mobile phones, to upload and draft multimedia packages to a back-end WordPress blogging platform. From there, editors can access the content for editing and publishing.
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