They are now being used in news reporting.
Mobile phone advancements are creating new opportunities for news reporting. Al Jazeera (voted the 5th most influential brand globally in an interbrand survey in 2004) acknowledges mobile technologies’ potential and Safdar Mustafa, from Al Jazeera’s mobile media unit, discusses how mobile phones are being used in news reporting and describes a case study where a mobile phone was used to report on a bomb explosion in Chad.