In this episode of the Mobile Journalism Show I am joined by Dougal Shaw from the BBC. He talks about how he got into mobile filming, his workflow and what stories appeal to him. 

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What kinds of videos work on social media? What kind of videos go viral? Brendan Miller is a producer with BBC Three. He has been involved in some of the most viral videos produced by the BBC, clocking up millions of views. Mark Egan spoke to him at a conference in Vilnius in Lithuania. This interview covered what works with social video both as far as content goes as well as the technical side of things. 

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Panu Karhunen is from Ilta Sanomat, a Finnish newspaper and TV channel. He has spent a year at the Reuters Institute at Oxford University. He has been looking into the idea that mobile journalists appear less intimidating, so can get more interviews and more intimacy. In this episode Mark Egan asks him what his research has discovered and what that means for journalism. 

Help for Heroes was ranked the number 1 brand for emotional storytelling in the Aesop survey 2016. Communications Director, Robin Punt, explains how they are using videos shot on mobile phones to help achieve this. 

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