Women have been leading the way for mobile journalism reporting since the very start.

In 2007 a mobile journalist from Die Welt newspaper (Germany) filed daily podcast and photo reports from a sailboat that was racing in the trans-ocean race known as the Atlantic Rally for Cruisers.

She used a mobile satellite phone to transmit the multimedia reports and the newspaper published the reports online to gain an exclusive in their coverage of the event.

I explain in this video case study.

 

 

 

It took several hours each day to upload the material to the Iridium satellite network that rings the Earth’s Equator.

She used a mobile satellite phone to transmit the multimedia reports and the newspaper published the reports online to gain an exclusive in their coverage of the event.

Her reports:

ARC 2007- Bei der Welt

https://www.welt.de/reise/article1381918/Bei-der-groessten-Transozean-Regatta-der-Welt.html

Sailing Regatta ARC 2007 – DIE WELT by Jördis Guzman

https://web.archive.org/web/20071216094915/http://www.welt.de:80/reise/arc2007/

Editor Weblog story from 2007 documenting the feat.

https://web.archive.org/web/20071215004909/http://www.editorsweblog.org:80/news/2007/12/video_extreme_mobile_journalism.php#more