iPhone for Journalism
Your iPhone has the power to transform the way you work, and to greatly enhance your effectiveness as a journalist.
This one-day course offers tuition, demonstrations and hands-on exercises in how to file reports, using the full range of multimedia, from your iPhone to the static web and to mobile devices.
We will cover both:
- the iPhone as a news gathering, editing and transmitting device, and
- how to establish publishing platforms for the material you create
Content includes:
Gadgets to make your iPhone reporting more professional
Microphones, lights, brackets and more. Bits of kit that make up for the iPhone’s inadequacies.
Establishing publishing platforms
The basics: filing to Twitter, Facebook, YouTube
More advanced: establishing a blog that acts as both a publishing platform for multimedia content and a distributing hub for your content to social and other platforms.
Plus: creating a mobile-optimised version of your content
Recording, editing and publishing from the iPhone to your range of publishing platforms
Creating and filing text
Using the iPhone’s keyboard and the inbuilt Notes software, plus consideration of alternative free and inexpensive software
Creating and filing audio reports
The range of software compared and tested
Creating and filing still images
Creating and publishing video
Broadcasting live to a range of publishing platforms.
Video and audio editing
Using free and inexpensive software to record, edit and publish video, stills and audio packages
EquipmentDelegates will need to have an iPhone,loaded with software specified in advance by us.
Who’s it for?
Any journalist who thinks their iPhone could transform the way they work
Duration: One day
