The Mo-Jo Revolution
February 8 - 28, 2010
BC International Media Centre l Robson Square | Vancouver, BC Canada
Covering an event like the Olympics is a major undertaking for any news organization. Coinciding with the 2010 Winter Olympics in February, VeriCorder Technology is launching a real-life, real-time experiment in the art of Mobile Journalism in Vancouver. In the past, reporting from the scene required complex systems and expensive equipment. VeriCorder has replaced all of that with a simple set of software programs on an iPhone.
VeriCorder will be offering trial software, training, and hardware to journalists, journalism students, and bloggers covering both sporting and news events around the Games. The package allows reporters and bloggers to quickly record and edit audio, video, and still images, and easily edit them into stories for a website, newspaper, radio or television station.
Creating a News Network … on an iPhone
The basis of the MoJo Revolution is to create a news or media network, based entirely on a mobile platform; in this case an iPhone. A group of reporters will be unleashed on the Olympic Games, equipped with VeriCorder software and hardware on the iPhone. They will create their multimedia stories on the iPhone, submit their stories wirelessly, and VeriCorder’s platform software will submit them to a live-streaming video site.
Mobile Journalism in Education
VeriCorder is working with some of North America’s most prestigious journalism schools to demonstrate this revolution in media technology. Students from the University of Missouri, Fanshawe College, Langara College, and the BC Institute of Technology will work and report in the field during the Olympic Games. The result of the MoJo experiment will then be the subject of research papers by students, and submitted at the National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) tradeshow in Las Vegas in April.
Media Partners
VeriCorder will also be supplying its software to dozens of reporters with some of the world’s largest media organizations, beginning on February 8th at the International Media Centre in Robson Square. To get your demo copy of our iPhone-based software, contact VeriCorder at sales@vericorder.com
