Mobile Journalism for Education

“Verilocal worked perfectly for us in our goal to move our radio programming into the digital realm. We’ve been live streaming for a few years now already, but the next big thing for us is making our content available on-demand. Verilocal not only helped us to do that, but also to PUSH our content from anywhere. The team at Vericorder have been a huge help in getting us to that place, and have always been flexible and helpful when we identified a need for expanded functionality for our purposes. Very happy with the product, and looking forward to being part of that evolution!”

Alex J. Killby
Web Media Coordinator
106.9 The X / Fanshawe College
web@1069fm.ca

The future of journalism is being shaped by the evolution of new technology. The importance of story telling and quality content remains but the means of publication change. Journalism schools teach the next generation of reporters the skills to both tell the story and work in todays job market with mobile journalism.

The question for educators is which technology will these students be using in the future and in what format the news will appear. Will most jobs be in traditional news setting based around print, TV networks or radio stations?

At VeriCorder we believe that the jobs will be online and multi-media with reporters expected to file to the web, to the radio station, to the TV station or to the print newsroom. With this in mind we have developed a new set of tools that does it all. The system is based around the iPhone or iPod Touch, enhanced with hardware to improve the video quality. The entry point into the online system is the 1st Video App, it is designed to work as a professional video editor and portal to an online publishing network. With 1st Video the user can file stories to an existing online system or can work automatically with a custom VeriTV system. The VeriTV system can be anything from a one page video blog to a complete hyperlocal network.

With 1st Video you can file a video story, a text story and an audio story at the same time. If it is integrated into a VeriLocal system it can post to the video player, to the text blog page, automatically insert the headline and go out to multiple twitter feeds. The App subscription contains a secure, reliable and resumable file transfer protocol that works on wifi or the cellular network. The targets to publish can be preset into the device and managed by the editor remotely.

Take a look through what we offer and email our sales department if you would like more information. sales@vericorder.com

Beta Version of our Hyper Local Media Website, is funded in part by the Canadian Media Fund.