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The smartphone is the ultimate storytelling tool - for journalists, filmmakers, podcasters and all the other inhabitants of the smartphone universe. In this podcast the journalists Björn Staschen and Wytse Vellinga share alle the tipps and tools based on their 2018 handbook "Mobile Storytelling". They talk to well-known journalists who know the technology well and reflect current developments.
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Things are changing in the Mobile Storytelling world. Not only are getting phones more expensive. Also essential apps are switching to subscription models oder raising their prices steeply. Is the the end to the promise that mobile storytelling makes video journalism affordable to anyone who has a story to tell? Tipps and tricks on how to tell your…
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One year after recording the last episode of The Mobile Storytelling Podcast Björn Staschen and Wytse Vellinga met up in London to record a very special (and short) episode of the podcast at the 2022 MoJoFest. For the first time since the start of the pandemic the #mojo world got to meet up again. A new beginning, but also a bit of an ending. Intri…
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Spanish journalist Leonor Suarez used her mobile phone to cover the Spanish Civil War. Not the real event off course, but a reenactment of the 1930’s war for a documentary. How did she experience being a director, cameraman and journalist at the same time? And what were the challenges in working on the phone?…
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Podcasting on Clubhouse & the state of MoJo during Covid19
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Clubhouse is the new ‘hip and happening’ social platform. Everybody wants to be on it and some are even willing to pay for an invite. But is this social audio platform useful for journalism? And what about recording a complete podcast on it? We tried it for this very special (and experimental) first episode of season two of the Mobile Storytelling …
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Marc Settle is training his colleagues for "that" moment in their career. "My goal is to make people aware of the capabilities of the phone when they need it," for exaple breaking news, when the satellite truck is still miles away. The one scene that can change a journalistic career - Marc Settle is training journalists at the BBC to use their smar…
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"The smartphone makes me feel safe." Martin Heller has been reporting on protests and demonstrations for nearly 20 years. A lot of his current reports are filmed and edited on smartphones. "Somedays it helps not be seen as a reporter with a big microphone and a cameracrew, especially when journalists are shouted at or even attacked." He started usi…
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He doesn´t do the dance, but still - Marcel Anderwert is quite succesful on TikTok. What an achievement as a news reporter! Marcel works for the Swiss Broadcaster SRF. Initially, he reported for national news like everyone else - he went out with a camera crew. But he always had a passion for smartphones. At his comapy, they called him "the iPhone …
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“Storytelling was always a part of my live." But first, Sallyanne Massimini studied fine arts - she worked in arts galleries and loved painting(s). Only in her senior year in college she discovered visual effects and video and ventured into film making. Then her career took of: She worked on commercials, documentaries and fiction. But still she tel…
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Eleanor Mannion´s story shows how Mobile Journalism can change a career path. She stumbled into journalism "by accident", as she recalls: Normally working as prodction staff behind the cameras at Ireland´s publix service broadcaster RTE, she took part in a Mobile Journalism Training. And loved it! Since then she has embarked on an impressive journa…
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“Technology changes, storytelling never will." Mike Castellucci even shows this on a t-shirt he wears from time to time. "Me taking everything to the extreme, I started shooting not only 2 minute stories with my phone, but half our shows for network television." Mike is the mastermind behind "Phoning it in", a television programme that is completel…
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“My passion is editing. To design an app for editing is like editing to me." Teri Morgan is the Co-Founder of Luma Touch, the company behind the iOs-App "Luma Fusion". - A podcast about listening to users, start-up culture and agility: Many believe Luma Fusion it is the best and unrivalled editing app for storytellers on iPhones. But how did Luma T…
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“My God, I didn´t know my phone could do that!" Glen Mulcahy still gets this reaction, nearly a decade after he started training journalists in how to tell a story with their smartphone. Glen started a movement: He founded the "Mobile Journalism Conference" (later turned into "MojoFest"). He even left his job as technology lead with the Irish publi…
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Episode 4: Covering the Covid pandemic from within the IC Ward in Italy
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“You want to be as invisible as possible." During the corona pandemic, RAI-3-journalist Nico Piro has reported from Italy´s hotspots. He was one of the first TV reporters to film in an emergency hospital built during the crisis in Bergamo - with his smartphone. "In such a hospital, there´s pain, there´s suffering", he tells us in our podcast. "So y…
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There is a time when a sock might play an important role in mobile journalism. It´s not our trick, but it´s a good trick! And it´s one of the tricks, ideas and thougts we have gathered around microphones in this edition of the mobile storytelling podcast: How good are the mics build into your phone? Which mics are the ones you should buy if you´re …
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"For them, Mobile Storytelling really makes a difference." Sara Hteit is training young refugees in Lebanese camps in how to tell their story with their smartphone. Her trainings are funded by Deutsche Welle Academy, and some of her trainees even ended up working as journalists for media outlets in Lebanon. "We´re not only giving them a voice, we´r…
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Episode 1: “We won’t go back to working the way we did before.”
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"Recording into the couch might get you the best result." Nick Garnett is a legend in mobile reporting. He has been using his iPhone 3 GS to go live for the BBC more than a decade ago, and since then he has hardly done anything else than reporting from where the stories happened. In the first episode of the Mobile Storytelling Podcast, he shares hi…
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The MobileStorytelling Podcast: Episode 0
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The smartphone is the ultimate storytelling tool - for journalists, filmmakers, podcasters and all the other inhabitants of the smartphone universe. In this podcast the journalists Björn Staschen and Wytse Vellinga share alle the tipps and tools based on their 2018 handbook "Mobile Storytelling". They talk to well-known journalists who know the tec…
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