It’s a building block, but a valuable one, since it lets you quickly create an image made up of images and then apply some of the more advanced features from JamSnap (see below) or StoryByte (also below). Diptic’s strength is in its simplicity and the fact that it saves to the Camera Roll, which allows every other image app to access it. It lets you build collages by selecting a template, tapping photos to go in there, reorganizing as needed and then publishing. If you save it to the Camera Roll, you can add some of the below apps to create a much more immersive chart.ĭiptic– Diptic’s a simple photo framing app. If you share it, it tweets as an image, which gets more views on Twitter. Covering a government meeting and have lots of stats? ChartMaker Pro allows you to build a bunch of different kind of graphs on the fly, then gives you the choice of sharing or saving the output to the Camera Roll. 360 allows the reader to scroll around in a “circle,” which is a bit more interactive and has a moderately larger “wow” factor.ĬhartMaker Pro – Nothing fancy here, just a good solid chart-making program. Unlike the iPhone’s ‘panoramic’ function in iOS 7, it doesn’t flatten the image into a long horizontal. This is an ideal app to gather color - a disaster scene, sidelines at a football game (as this one was by a reporter from KOMU-TV in Missouri). 360 Panorama lets you gather 360 degree images and quickly share them. These iOS apps allow reporters to take raw material and easily create fresh content in under 90 seconds and share it to the web.ģ60 Panorama– Easy-to-use photo stitching app. I call this “cotton candy content.” It’s light to produce and easy to distribute and sometimes gives readers a pleasant buzz. I found seven mobile apps that can help reporters quickly produce compelling photos, video clips and other visuals that draw readers in - and encourage them to come back for more. This creates a challenge: How do you generate content while still reporting? In the age of social media, reporters on the scene of a news story face increasing pressure to produce fast, compelling tweets and status updates for their publications.
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