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There are three key tools that any aspiring multimedia journalist should have nowadays: a smartphone, the application AudioBoo and Twitter.
So says Rory Cellan-Jones, BBC technology correspondent and a journalist that in recent years have switched from monomedia journalism to experimental multimedia journalism.
In an interview via email with retoNet, Cellan-Jones explains that the smartphone is part of what would be the basic basket of a digital journalist because it makes it possible to record audio and video without carrying extra kit.
This, coupled with the application AudioBoo, allows us to transmit a radio piece immediately.
Following his lecture “New Tools for Old Hacks” -tweeted instantly by the BBC College of Journalism-, he claimed that Twitter “is an essential tool if you want to promote your work- and can also be a great source of story leads and information. You just need to work out who to follow and how to build an audience of followers”.
To take the first steps in the multimedia path, Rory suggests start with a blog. “It is easy to set up and is a place you can try things out because at first nobody will be looking at it!”.
“Most simple blogware -try Blogger or WordPress.com- allows you to add video or audio. So when you are ready you can start experimenting with these as well”.
To learn more about Rory Cellan-Jones tips and his work, you can visit his blog and his Twitter @ruskin147.
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