Mobile Media Toolkit

Share stories from the field or reviews of mobile tools you have tried in your own work

Mobile phones are everywhere in today’s world, and they have many applications for those in media. Most journalists already use mobiles phones, but the sheer number of tools and applications available makes it difficult to know the most effective way to use them. The Mobile Media Toolkit helps you make sense of new tools and applications through detailed case studies, how-to guides, and mobile tool reviews. 

The Toolkit provides guidance on how mobiles can be used for reporting, news broadcasting, and citizen media participation on a variety of platforms and in a variety of circumstances.

Our audience includes citizen journalists, reporters, media companies, researchers, and media development organizations. 

It’s important for us to hear from you, too. Have you implemented a mobile media project in radio or newspaper? Are you working to solicit citizen journalist reports via mobile or engage with your readers and listeners over a handset? We’d love to hear more about it. 

Contact us at the Toolkit or send us a note on Twitter @mobilemediakit and we’ll follow up with you. We can help you edit your post.

What tools are you using? 

We also review the newest and best mobile tools for media. Are you developing your own mobile tool or citizen journalism platform? Tell us about it! We’re also very interested in what tools you have used in your own work in the field. What worked for you, and what didn’t? 

Share your content in English, Spanish, and Arabic

We’ll work with you to edit and post the piece. We also translate Toolkit content into Spanish and Arabic and you are free to cross-post the final piece on your own site and share it with your own networks. 

So, please contact us using this form or let us know on Twitter @mobilemediakit and share your stories with our Mobile Media Toolkit audience. 

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