mobile immigration training

Smart Phones for Smart Journalists

International Center for JournalistsMandy Jenkins#icfj11

Who Owns Cell Phones?

85% non-Hispanic whites

79% African-Americans

76% Latinos

Source: Pew, 2011

Phone Usage

Source: Nielsen, Media Buyer Planner

App Use Among Latinos

58% use non-voice apps

55% send/receive texts

6% use phone as a stand-in for a home computer

Source: Pew, 2011

Immigration Apps

Border crossing wait time

Visa processing

Naturalization tests

Immigration law

Long-distance conversations

Tweets that break news

Search for News & Sources

• Search by keywords, location, time• Reach out for more info• Follow who you reach out to

More Mobile Reporting

Photoshop Express

Qik (Live Video)

Evernote

Mobile Publishing

ScribbleLive

Wordpress

Tumblr

Productivity & Strategy

Newsroom Workflow

Reporters tweet/liveblog details, quotes and media

Web producers/editors start a story from those tweets

Reporters use tweets as notes to write longer form

Tools to manage the insanity

Research tools

Trends and searches

Resources in the field

Read when you have the chance

Be connected to the office

Try it out

Exercises

Write a short post on this session. Publish by email to 633sceanouth@tumblr.com.

Tweet observations from this session using #mojoclass

Take photos, video or audio. Publish by email to 633sceanouth@tumblr.com.

Mobilejournos.tumblr.com

Your work seen here!

Questions, follow-up

Mandy Jenkins

mandyjenkins@gmail.com

@mjenkins

More resources and such at:

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