Journalists now have something new to look forward to. Nokia and Reuters have now teamed up to transform how journalists file stories in the field. A new mobile journalism application will now allow reporters to file and publish text, photo, audio and video news stories from handheld devices, rather than laptops. Nokia Research Center (NRC) and Reuters are working together on a mobile journalism project that could transform the way journalists file news reports when on the move. The new mobile application centres around a lightweight toolkit that provides everything journalists need to file and publish stories from even the most remote regions of the world. Though still on a trial run, with this select Reuters journalists around the world made use of the mobile journalism application in their everyday work to edit, combine and file text, images, sound and live and recorded video streams, producing and publishing multi-media stories of broadcast quality without needing to return to the studio or office. This is a very easy-to-use application that takes account of the demands placed on journalists.

While the application's most immediate use would be for professional journalists, the implications of the research could be much wider in the long term. The mobile journalism application uses the multimedia capabilities which are already available in existing smart phones and combines these to produce a toolkit that fits intuitively with the way in which journalists want to use it. The toolkit comprises multimedia capabilities, text editing tools and live video streaming and is accessed using an innovative user interface.

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