[Mobile video journalists say] they were able to film stories that would have been impossible with a TV camera and a multi-person crew. They suggested [in interviews with Finnish journalist Panu Karhunen for an Oxford University Reuters Institute research report] that mobile journalism can lead to more genuine and more intimate journalism. Most of the interviewees felt that people prefer to give an interview to a mobile journalist than to a multi-person TV crew.
Read the research report at Reuters Institute
Read a piece on the research at Journalism.co.uk
Mobile planning illustration from Deutsche Welle
