Duncan Stone took time out of his busy schedule at MojoFest in Galway recently to share his expertise on all things Mojo.
Having overseen a pilot programme to introduce mobile journalism to the BBC newsroom Duncan Stone was enthusiastically sharing his top tips with MoJoFest goers.
While he is confident that "the future of mojo is quite promising", he was adamant to stress that mobile journalism "is not a replacement for all those cameras that craft camera crews have been using all these years."
In contrast: "It is another tool in the arsenal of cameras that we can all use when we're filming news."
So, while he doesn't believe that it changes the practice of filming, he says it does change when we use the iPhone, depending on a job by job basis.
In terms of the adaptation of the iPhone into the newsroom, Duncan encourages the use of the "5-metre rule", which he credits to MojoFest founder Glen Mulcahy. If it's within 5 metres you have the option of shooting on the phone.
So why use a phone? "Everyone these days has a camera phone. It seems only good sense for us to start filming on iPhones.
"It's an extremely versatile tool... not only does it film but we can edit on the phone, we can send on the phone and no other camera will enable us to do all those things."
He also admits that the move to mojo is in the response to an audience shift: "Our audience is changing, there is a much younger audience now." And it's about giving them what they want or what they expect.
So while Duncan may not be shooting on the frontline with his iPhone just yet, he believes that mojo is an integral part of the newsroom workflow.
To find out more about Duncan Stone's take on mobile journalism, follow him on twitter @DuncanCStone
