Field reporting forces a punishing trade-off: stay fully present with your subject or look away to feed the data-capture machine. Apple’s Siri Recap introduces ambient, hands-free field summaries—but can a wrist readout ever meet the standard of journalistic evidence?
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Category: Mobile Journalism
Mobile Journalism articles and videos by Robb Montgomery, author of “Smartphone Video Storytelling” and mobile journalism professor.
Teach Video Creators with the Digital Content Creator Sprint
New creator syllabus, Singapore workshops, a 19-year journalism doc, and the return of Visual Editors Forums.
The $314 Billion Pivot: Why Creator Journalism is the New Mainstream
For years, the legacy news industry treated the “creator economy” as a side hustle for influencers. Today, that side hustle is a $314 billion global ecosystem—and it is actively dismantling traditional media distribution. In a recent address, former BBC News executive Deborah Turness called the rise of creator journalism “the most disruptive shift the news […]
The Creator Economy’s Ownership Problem: Protect Your IP from AI
he creator economy promises independence, but building your journalism on rented land leaves your intellectual property vulnerable to AI data scrapers. Discover the five-step blueprint to protect your content, secure your direct audience, and master creator economy ownership before the platforms replace you.
How Johnny Harris Built a 7.5M Subscriber Newsroom Without Selling Out
For decades, the journalism industry operated under a fatal assumption: the internet killed long-form reporting. We were told that digital audiences possessed the attention spans of gnats, and that survival required pivoting to cheap, viral, short-form content. Johnny Harris proved them wrong. With over 7.5 million YouTube subscribers, the former Vox producer has built an […]
When your glasses have a camera, who else gets to watch?
HOLLYWOOD: I just tried on the $500 Ray-Ban Meta glasses at the Meta Lab store on Melrose, and I walked out thinking less about the gadget and more about what it says about where media is heading. A recent investigation by Swedish journalists at Svenska Dagbladet reported that Meta’s smart-glasses content could be reviewed by […]
MOJO workshop at BEA Las Vegas
Mobile Journalism workshop at the Broadcast Education Association By Robb Montgomery Here are the primary resources, frameworks, and digital repositories shared during our Saturday workshop exploring “The Journalist as Cultural Steward: Kinetic Ethnography and Mobile Storytelling”. The Trust Graph A 19 year longitudinal visual ethnography and 40,000 word academic monograph documenting the structural collapse of […]