iMovie ($4.99)
You've made it to a danger zone. Using iMovie on your iPad or your iPhone you can quickly shoot and edit short clips of the events you might be seeing around you. Once you've created a clip you can easily export it to YouTube, Facebook, Vimeo, and CNN iReport.
1st Video ($9.99, or $29.99 for Pro iPad version)
Apple might develop iMovie, but for a more journalist-focused solution some may want to take a look at 1st Video, which combines video, audio, image record and edit capability with broadcast quality audio editing to produce .mov video files. Video created can be shared via YouTube, the version for iPad seems especially interesting.
CoveritLive (free)
This tool for live event reporting is used in the field by the likes of Sky, Fox, the Washington Post and others. It integrates with the CoveritLive platform (registration required). You can then use the app to publish photos, audio and video in real-time, approve comments, publish live commentary, post and manage Tweets and more. There's an offline mode, support for multi-tasking and other cool features in this solution.
Report-IT Live ($29.99)
Somewhat more affordable, this app helps you broadcast live. It records audio in HD quality, which it dispatches using a 3G or Wi-Fi network back to your IP-enabled audio set-up in the studio. This is an interesting solution because audio is bi-directional, so you can get messages from your studio. This solution also lets you save audio locally if you want to upload it for later broadcast. You do need to have specific equipment to make use of this solution.
Dragon Dictation (free)
Create written news reports on the go, speak them into the iPhone mic using this app and the software will chat to the Nuance voice recog server, where your utterances will be transformed into actual written words. Send Tweets, update status messages, send SMS or notes, write emails. Transcriptions can be pasted into any application using the clipboard -- caveat emptor: you need an active network connection for this solution to work.
Evernote (app is free)
A great tool for researchers, Evernote lets you add text, images and audio to documents using your iOS device. The results can be accessed using other mobile devices or the Web. There's interesting features such as geo-tagging and the solution offers wide cross-platform support.
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