South Africa: Nokia continues mobile journalism project with university students

Posted by Sarah Schewe on July 17, 2008 at 11:24 AM

Following Nokia's mobile journalism experiment, where Reuters journalists were given kits for filing news reports on the move, South African students from the University of Witwatersrand (WITS) and first year film and television students from City Varsity school have been given kits to continue the project through October.

The students' Mojozone site, which will feature text, images and video, will deliver multimedia news and event information to the mobiles of students on campus using WAP and bluetooth technology.

Indra de Lanerolle, adjunct lecturer on the WITS journalism programme, explained the kind of real world decisions students would be asked to make, "Are there specific kinds of news or information people will want on their cell phone? Do stories need to be of different length? They need to decide when and how to use video, rather than text or images. These are all questions that are becoming vitally important in the professional world too."

Source: Journalism.co.uk