The Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism maintains a website dedicated to "Learning to Moblog".
The responsible New Media Program Director Paul Grabowicz has posted two very interesting things:
"Cellphone Photo in New York Times: One of the main photos The New York Times used with its stories on the bid by Cingular Wireless to take over AT&T Wireless was a picture of the signing of the merger agreement taken with a cell phone - and by a AT&T executive." [Link]
Grabowicz comes up with another story - via Tim Porter ("former managing editor at the San Francisco Examiner") and originally reported by Dan Weintraub for the Online Journalism Review - that a freelance writer (Joshua Marshal, Talking Points Memo) and a freelance journalism Weblogger (Chris Allbritton) have raised - no, not VC - $4.800 and $15,000 from their readers to finance their reporting trips to NH and Iraq: "Marshall is a longtime magazine journalist and author of Talking Points Memo, a popular political blog. Marshall asked his audience, which Weintraub reports as 300,000 unique users a month, for donations to fund a reporting trip to New Hampshire. "Within a day," said Weintraub, "190 donors had contributed $4,800." ("Public Journalism, Privately Funded")
This could never happen to a photo journalist or a professional photographer shooting only for his moblog. What do you think?
"A new form of public journalism is taking place now, one that ironically was born in the personal journalism of blogging but has matured into a renewed emphasis of the natural connection between the journalist and his "public," whose members, in this relationship, are also his employers." (Tim Porter)
Alan Reiter adds: "Journalism students will be getting a "formal" taste of moblogging. That will undoubtedly translate into more camera phone photos used in publications. Of course, we're already seeing publications and TV news programs using -- and, indeed, encouraging submissions of -- camera phone photos. I wonder if we'll see business schools begin promoting camera phones for student projects. Naw, not for a while I assume. Too straightlaced, and the wireless industry still doesn't promote the business applications of camera phones."
PS: Paul Grabowicz also reports "Using Cell Phone Cameras as Scanners" (via E-Media Tidbits) and - Audioblogging (1; 2; this is cool - all videoblogs we´ve seen so far are working without audio).
