#Tip: Interested in mobile reporting? Check out this resource of related reading

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In September last year a new platform called Spundge was launched to help journalists keep track content across the web, store away useful and interesting material into ‘notebooks’ and even publish directly to social and blog platforms.

This week one of the journalists behind it, Craig Silverman, tweeted a link to a mobile journalism notebook, created by Mick Côté, which gathers content from the web relating to the latest developments in this field – and would be a useful resource for those interested in mobile reporting.

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#Tip of the day for journalists: Mobile phone photography

The Phototuts+ site has a list of 10 top tips for producing the best mobile photography, which may prove useful for journalists and photographers maybe on the move but with their phone to hand.

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#Tip of the day for journalists: mobile reporting pointers

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The 10,000 Words blog has a post which offers some tips for getting video footage with a smartphone. See the post here.

At Journalism.co.uk’s recent news:rewired event speakers on a mobile reporting session also shared tips on using mobile devices to report. Here is a liveblog of the session which featured lots of practical tips and apps for journalists.

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BBC reports ‘new record’ for mobile during US election coverage

The BBC has reported a “record” number of mobile devices being used to access its web content in a day with “nearly 5 million” devices visiting BBC News Online on Wednesday (7 November), as results of the US election continued to be announced.

The broadcaster began measuring access via mobile devices at the beginning of the year. The record of almost 5 million beats a previous record from the week before of 4 million, recorded during Hurricane Sandy.

In a blog post BBC News website editor Steve Herrmann said the broadcaster’s election coverage also “brought the highest traffic to BBC News Online so far this year”.

On Wednesday (7 November) the news website recorded 16.4 million unique browsers.

Herrmann said this “makes it the highest traffic day of 2012 so far and rivals our two biggest previous days during the August riots and the March Tsunami, in 2011. During the England riots, on 9 August 2011 there were there were 18.2 million unique browsers”.

This comes just weeks after BBC News started to roll out as default its new responsive site on mobile phones to improve the experience for its growing mobile audience.

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#Tip of the day for journalists: Five iPad interview apps

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On the 10,000 Words blog Ryan Lytle lists five iPad apps that he cites as being “great for handling interviews”. The apps include one for transcribing recordings, another for recording, storing and sharing, and one which places a timestap notes to help you quickly find specific audio.

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#Podcast – Adapting to change: How and why news sites are moving to responsive design

With regular launches of new mobile devices only adding to the different platforms people are consuming news from, a number of media outlets have recently announced moves towards responsive designs to offer users an experience which suits the device on which they are accessing content.

In this week’s podcast we speak to four news outlets about their approaches to responsive design and the long-term impact that they see development today having in the future for the news site. We also look at other responsive matters beyond the resizing of text, such as the opportunities for advertising experience and enhanced visual storytelling.

The podcast features:

• William Beavis, head of digital, Midland News Association
• Andy Hume, front-end architect, Guardian News & Media
• Chris Russell, head of product for news, BBC Future Media
• Cathy Sharick, managing editor, Time.com

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Here is more on the responsive designs recently announced by the above media outlets:

• Why the Express and Star went ‘mobile-first’ and responsive
• Guardian unveils ‘work-in-progress’ responsive beta site
• BBC News rolls out responsive site to mobile
• The new Time.com: A responsive global news site

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#Tip of the day for journalists: Tablet and mobile news interaction studies

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It is worth taking a look at some recent studies which have researched the way users interact with news on mobile devices, such as phones and tablets, and could help with the development of news products on digital platforms.

Studies include eye-tracking research by Poynter, which released further findings from its study last week, on how users engage with news on tablets, which hoped “to determine best strategy for news on tablets”. Find out more on the project here.

And earlier in the month MediaShift reported on a Pew Research Center study on mobile news, which MediaShift said ”offers context that could help community news publishers hone their mobile strategy”.

See the Pew study here.

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#mms12: Eight facts on mobile for publishers from Enders Analysis

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The Mobile Media Strategies conference is underway in London today where Benedict Evans from Enders Analysis delivered the keynote presentation. Here are eight facts from his talk.

1. Half of the UK population has a smartphone.

2. Android and iOS mobile device sales combined are on target to hit 1 billion by end of this year.

3. More than half of Facebook’s user base is using mobile.

4. iOS users by five apps per month, per device.

5. Fifteen per cent of UK adults say they have a tablet. It is not reducing PC sales but the home computer gets switched on less and less.

6. Between Apple and Amazon they have a product at “pretty much all price points”, meaning they can be bought in the supermarket “without the need for a family conversation” about whether to make the purchase.

7. Android has about one third of the global tablet market and 10 per cent of the UK tablet market. But that could change.

8. Twelve per cent of tablet magazine and newspaper readers in April didn’t read print version previously, 20 per cent now read magazines and newspapers less.

In summary, Evans said:

If you are going to invest in developing for three mobile platforms – make them iOS, Android and Facebook.

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#Tip of the day for journalists: iPhone photography

Following yesterday’s tip, which linked to a video outlining photojournalism tips, today’s tip is a webchat on Poynter which focuses on iPhone photography.

The chat, which can be revisited here, is described as looking at the “benefits and drawbacks of iPhone photography, the role that apps like Hipstamatic and Instagram play in journalism, and the related ethical issues”.

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Olympic figures: BBC reports 12m video views via mobile

The BBC has revealed the figures showing the number of people consuming Olympics news across four platforms: desktop, tablet, mobile and television.

The BBC Internet blog reports that the broadcaster saw 9.2 million browsers to its mobile site and iPhone and Android Olympics app over the course of the Games.

The post also reveals the BBC clocked up more than 2.3 million browsers using tablets.

Writing on the blog, Cait O’Riorda, head of product, BBC Sport and London 2012, said:

Consumption of video content on mobile has been perhaps the key takeaway from the two weeks: we saw 12 million requests for video on mobile across the whole of the Games.

Overall the broadcaster had “106 million requests for BBC Olympic video content across all online platforms”.

The blog post has several interesting graphics, including one to demonstrate how people used each of the four platforms at different times of the day.

The key findings are:

• PC usage maxes out during the week at lunchtime and during mid-afternoon peak Team GB moments
• Mobile takes over around 6pm as people leave the office but still want to keep up to date with the latest action
• Tablet usage reaches a peak at around 9pm: people using them as a second screen experience as they watch the Games on their TVs, and also as they continue to watch in bed

The blog also reports that the video “chapter-marking feature, enabling audiences to go back to key event moments instantly, received an average 1.5 million clicks per day. The chapter marker for Bolt’s 100m final win was clicked on more than 13,000 times”.

The most-watched livestream of the Games was the tennis singles finals. There were 820,000 requests for live video of the matches that saw Serena Williams and Andy Murray take gold.

O’Riorda states in the post:

The peak audiences for Team GB’s medal moments were bigger than anything we’ve ever seen. Over a 24 hour period on the busiest Olympic days, Olympic traffic to bbc.co.uk exceeded that for the entire BBC coverage of FIFA World Cup 2010 games. On the busiest day, the BBC delivered 2.8 petabytes, with the peak traffic moment occurring when Bradley Wiggins won gold and we shifted 700 Gb/s.

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