The 7 most useful apps for mobile journalism | RJI

 Some of these may be useful for the website and for HS Insider.



The 7 most useful apps for mobile journalism | RJI

Speaking of HS Insider, here are some tips they sent in an email when the site first started. Please take them to heart.

1. You don't have to say Avengers High School. Just say Avengers. Everyone who comes to your page knows you are talking about your high school.

2. When reporting the score, always list the winning team's score first. So, don't say, "Avengers lost, 17-35", say "Avengers lost, 35-17"

3. Try to include more stats in your game stories. Don't say "John Adams had a dominating performance at running back.: Say "John Adams was dominant at running back, rushing for 247 yards."

4. When referring to a person a second time in the same story, just use their last name. For example: "John Adams was very disappointed in the loss. The only touchdown for the Avengers came on a 66-yard pass from Steve Rogers to Adams." The only exception to this would be if there are two people with the same last name in the story. Then you would use first and last name in all references to those two people.

5. Try to include the won-lost record of the team. Such as, "Avengers improve to 7-1 with the victory."

6. For game recap videos, nothing over 5 minutes. Once you cross the five-minute mark, you lose 90% of your audience.

7. For videos, try not to make it just a series of plays from the game, unless you can describe what is happening on each play, it doesn't mean much to people who weren't there.

8. You don't have to note what camera you used, in fact, we would prefer you didn't as we don't want to give free advertising or make it look like Go Pro is sponsoring Varsity Video.

9. If you have a particularly in-depth feature video, you can go past five minutes.