STOMP & Steve Garfield
STOMP (Strait Times online mobile and print) is a Singapore based interactive news platform that allows users to deliver content. Editor Jennifer Lewis said the aim was to use STOMP as a way for The Straits Times to interact with its readers by allowing them to contribute pictures and stories.
However it seems that interactivity and the 24/7 world is changing the presentation news.
Steve Garfield, a Mobile Video Journalist, explained how easy it was to use mobile technology to broadcast news straight to the web – no need to wait.
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Mr Garfield explained that he approached Duncan Hunter, a US politician running for the 2008 Republican nomination for President, whilst downtown. Mr Hunter allowed Garfield to film him and ask a few questions since he was only recording him from a mobile phone.
Duncan Hunter blurted out that he was not ready to quit running for the nomination and gave Garfield an exclusive for the streaming site Qik!
Obviously, the mobile phone was not as intimidating as a TV news camera. It is amazing that the CEO did not trust the ‘traditional media’ yet could trust someone using a smaller device.
This new form of reporting by streaming live from mobile is great because print is one-dimensional and is often a day late. If news happens now, people want to hear it now, not tomorrow.
