Audioboo: Can it be used for news reporting? Some case studies
Yesterday Journalism.co.uk spoke with Audioboo founder Mark Rock about the potential for the iPhone audio app to be used for local news reporting: “[E]veryone knows what’s happening to traditional...
View ArticleTip of the day from Journalism.co.uk – use iPhone Audioboo app to catch short...
Audio: If you’ve got an iPhone, try using the Audioboo application to record short audio clips. These are geotagged so can be used to create an audio map – used to great effect to cover the recent G20...
View ArticleAudioboo debuts in Guardian article
The Guardian’s inventive use of mobile application Audioboo during last week’s G20 news coverage isn’t the end of the paper’s experiments with the audio recording service. According to a tweet from...
View ArticleAudio reporting tool Audioboo experiments with paid-for account for ITV
Since its launch in March, Audioboo, the service which allows users to record and upload short audio recordings, has notched up 30,000 registered users and been taken up by both hyperlocal and...
View ArticleDevelopers and journalists forging common ground
Back in April 2009 I listened as a group of bloggers at the G20 protests in London sent in reports using the new Audioboo iPhone application. The rules of the game are clearly changing fast, I thought....
View ArticleRosie Niven: New Audioboo message feature a boon for journalists
London-based journalist Rosie Niven has some interesting thoughts on her blog about how journalists can make use of the recently launched personal messaging service from Audioboo. The site sent an...
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New online audio startup Broadcastr bets on location
Developers in Brooklyn, New York are working on a platform that allows people to upload audio stories and geolocates them on a world map. Broadcastr, which the developers describe as ‘a social media...
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Five tools to liven up local election reporting
If you are reporting on the referendum on the voting system, the Scottish, Welsh and Northern Irish assemblies or from one of the 305 town halls across England and Northern Ireland with local...
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#bbcsms: Risking failure – Mainstream media v start-ups
One of the afternoon panels at the BBC’s Social Media Summit today asked the question: Can mainstream media compete with start-ups in social media innovation? The panel featured Mark Little of...
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Ten fantastic apps, tips and tools for recording audio
If you want to make your blog more multimedia, work as a broadcast journalist, or are a sports reporter covering a team whose fans have an appetite for post-match team talk, here are 10 ideas and apps...
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Q&A: Audioboo founder on the riots, Libya and ‘friendly competitor’ SoundCloud
Mark Rock, CEO of Audioboo. Photo by Kate Arkless Gray. Since it launched in 2009, Audioboo has become widely used by journalists and so-called citizen reporters. You can add a picture and geolocate...
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#Tip of the day from Journalism.co.uk – using online audio platforms
In a Poynter how-to Jim Colgan gives a useful run through of three tools being used by journalists working with audio online – SoundCloud, AudioBoo and Broadcastr – and as well as giving pointers on...
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FT: BBC officially partners with AudioBoo to add programme web clips
The Financial Times has reported that the BBC has officially partnered with AudioBoo to post sound clips from programmes onto its website. BBC journalists have been using AudioBoo since shortly after...
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