MojoCon Ireland 2015 – More Highlights From Day One

He also mentioned apps such as Meerkat and the newly released Periscope. Meerkat allows you to stream live video from your phone to all of your Twitter followers at once.  The Twitter owned Periscope app went live just last Thursday. With both these apps on your smart phone, Neal Augenstein says, a journalist can now report stories as they happen and engage your audience earlier with the story.

Neal Augenstein’s advice if you are producing a story for a variety of media – TV, Radio, Online, Social Media – is to compliment not duplicate across the various platforms. Also, alway think twice before you tweet because in this day and age you can’t as easily retract bad information.

Thank you to @GlenBMulcahy and the folks at @MojoConIRL for the wonderfully informative, inspiring and hospitable event @kevinbakhurst

— Neal Augenstein (@AugensteinWTOP) March 29, 2015

Speaker SHADI RAHIMI

Shadi Rahimi is a Deputy Producer in San Francisco, CA, at Al Jazeera’s new mobile-first project AJ+. Her role is to direct and produce content for the AJ+ app and its social platforms. She is an award-winning multimedia journalist who recently reported from Ferguson, MO, for AJ+ using an iPhone rig to cover the grand jury decision regarding Officer Darren Wilson. She posted/tweeted breaking news, took photos, filmed and edited all with an iPhone 5.

Rahmini is a huge proponent of sharing news directly to social media platforms with smart devices. This is, she says, where journalism is going with mobile armies equipped across the globe covering events and things as they happen and unfold.

Speaker CHRISTIAN PAYNE