The BBC’s recent experiment with mobile journalism is a good example of its multimedia approach to news in action. Technology correspondent Rory Cellan-Jones headed out to the mobile phone industry’s annual shindig in Barcelona to cover the event for TV, radio and online. Given that cellphones were the focus, it proved a suitable event to try out using mobiles as newsgathering tools. The phone was a Nokia N95 which Reuters

Are cellphones the platform of the future? They are, according to Eric Schwartz of Foneshow. Talking at an ONA panel on the future of publishing, Schwartz went al evangelical about mobiles. He argues cellphones are the future because there are more cellphones than toasters on the planet – 2.7bn mobiles worldwide. Cellphones outsold iPods 20 to 1 in the US, says Schwartz. To do news, you have to be a

Barely a year after it first appeared, Star P.M. from The Toronto Staris bowing out. Star P.M. was a downloadable PDF, intended as an afternoon edition of the newspaper. According to Toronto Star editor-in-chief Fred Kuntz, it is scrapping the PDF because of technology advances. Instead, Star P.M. will be “replaced by two more powerful products, offering greater flexibility, interactivity and value”, namely the new mobile.thestar.com service, and improvements to