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How to cover Occupy Wall Street movements, an app from WNYC, and more suggested gear for the Mojo

This week, we highlight tips on covering OWS movements, share an inspirational speech on journalism, and offer more suggested Mojo tools and gear. As always, we welcome your thoughts and contributions. Send us your feedback or suggested tools and sites and we’ll work to include them in next Friday’s Mobile Media Roundup.

For Covering OWS Events

The 10,000 Words blog from MediaBistro.com posted a guide on How To Cover the Occupy Wall Street Movement as a Digital Journalist, with examples and tips on using data maps, live blogs, and Storify. Here’s more from the Mobile Media Toolkit on reporting from a smartphone. 

For those already out there covering events, the Electronic Frontier Foundation posted this Cell Phone Guide for Occupy Wall Street Protesters (and Everyone Else). While the tips apply primarily to protesters in the U.S. who are concerned about protecting their handsets when questioned, detained, or arrested by police, the general guidelines are helpful for a larger audience, too. For even more guidelines, check out SaferMobile, a project to help journalists understand the security risks of mobile technology.

For Mojos: A Handy List of Apps and Gear

We came across this helpful flyer from the recent Excellence in Journalism event. It lists reccommended apps and gear for the Mojo from Damon Kiesow.  

For Anyone: A New Mobile Radio App from WNYC

Radio station WNYC released an iPhone app that offers a live stream of the station, podcasts of recent programs, and written stories from WNYC.org.

In a New York Times review of the app, Joshua Brustein that it lacks one chief feature: it doesn’t allow listeners to talk back. He writes, “Surprisingly, making a donation is currently the only way for a user to interact with WNYC itself, which is odd for a station that has already been experimenting with digital twists on the call-in-show format.”

We’ve written about other innovative ways that the radio station is using mobiles to map events and engage with listeners and sources.

For Anyone: Inspiration

How to be a Modern Nigerian Journalist is a speech by Bayo Onanuga, editor-in-chief of TheNews magazine, for a recent event in Nigeria. Bayo’s speech highlights the opportunities in using new tools in journalism:

“... anyone who aspires to be a journalist in this age, must decide whether he wants to be either an analogue practitioner, a throwback to the old, bygone years or a digital journalist, a devotee of the world of new technology, that has greatly shaped our profession and business. In the practical sense, he really has no choice, except to be the latter.”

Bayo says that while technology is reshaping the field, journalism training is still key. Read the entire speech here. 

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