Stephen Quinn is Professor, at Kristiania University College. Stephen Quinn runs MOJO Media Insights, a digital consulting business, based in Brighton in the United Kingdom. He teaches media professionals how to make broadcast-quality videos using only an iOS device, and shows media organisations how to make money from producing interactive books using iBooks Author. Dr Quinn was the digital development editor at the South China Morning Post from 2011 until 2013. At the Post he helped re-launch the site that in November 2012 won the WAN/Ifra gold medal for best news website. He moved to the UK at the end of 2013. From 1996 to 2011 Professor Quinn, an Australian, was a journalism professor in Australia, the UAE, the US and China. Between 1975 and 1995 Dr Quinn was a journalist with Australian newspapers, the Bangkok Post , the UK’s Press Association, BBC-TV, ITN, The Guardian , and TVNZ. He has published 28 books, 17 as sole author, including four digital books using Apple’s iBooks Author. His most recent print book was MOJO: The Mobile Journalism Handbook (Focal: Boston) co-written with Dr Ivo Burum.
DJRG Fellow, September 2018
Title and abstract
Television news with only a smartphone and drone
Television news is expensive to produce. News organisations are constantly looking for ways to reduce costs. Filming, editing and producing news with only mobile phones offers one way to cut costs. Using drones controlled by mobile phones are other ways to control costs, as well as producing powerful images. In the UK where the author is based it costs about GBP 1,000 an hour to hire a helicopter. A drone can take similar images for a fraction of the cost. This presentation to OsloMet will consider the evolution of television newsgathering using only a mobile phone in a selection of European and Nordic nations. This presentation is relevant for students because it will show how it is possible for one person to set up a business creating video with only a mobile device and make programs that can be sold to broadcasters. For teachers it is relevant because it shows new ways to teach using a mobile device, and also introduces new business models for journalism.