You don't have to go all out with mobile journalism – sometimes the traditional methods are still the best – but being aware of all the potential tools at your disposal can help you choose the best ones for the job.

At the Online News Association's recent conference Jeremy Caplan, education director at the Tow-Knight Centre for Entrepreneurial Journalism, gave a talk including '21 tips for mobile ninjas', now shared as a Google doc.

As well as a range of hardware that is useful when reporting from the scene, he includes advice on best practice and a selection of useful apps for taking and editing photos, recording audio, video production, mobile publishing, live streaming and more. You might not need all of them but the range and detail of information in should have something for everyone.
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