The Mobile Storytelling Podcast

Episode 4: Covering the Covid pandemic from within the IC Ward in Italy


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“You want to be as invisible as possible." During the corona pandemic, RAI-3-journalist Nico Piro has reported from Italy´s hotspots. He was one of the first TV reporters to film in an emergency hospital built during the crisis in Bergamo - with his smartphone. "In such a hospital, there´s pain, there´s suffering", he tells us in our podcast. "So you don´t want to invade the place." His smartphone was small enough for him to blend into the surrounding, to respect difficult situation patients and staff were in. An the phone was easy enough to clean after working in a ward with a high viral charge. Before corona, Nico has worked as foreign correspondent for the TG 3 news programme covering the war in Afghanistan and other areas of the world - partly also with his smartphone. The important thing for him: It´s the story that counts, and the smartphone is one tool to tell a story. He also thinks the phone is great for beginners to learn their ropes in journalism.
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The Mobile Storytelling PodcastBy wytse vellinga