Perhaps more than any other device, a smartphone encourages cross-platform creativity and digital innovation.

Photos, videos, audio and graphics can be created and edited on the phone and uploaded to newsroom servers, and to online and social platforms direct from the device. You can also respond to audience queries and contacts via chat apps, social messaging and email.

Journalists who own or have access to a smartphone can develop skills like video journalism, radio journalism, podcasting, photography without having to buy high-cost equipment. In a fully ‘mojo’ newsroom, this can break down silos between different departments such as the social media desk and the video production desk.