Mojo (Mobile Journalist)
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Mojo refers to Mobile Journalists that is, staff or freelance reporters who write their stories from their communities thanks to technical tools such as digital cameras and camcorders, laptop PCs with broadband wireless connection. Stories are posted either on the newspapers' websites or included in the print editions. Mojos typically don't have office space at the newsroom.
The term apparently has been coined in 2005 by people with Gannett newspapers as a codename for a project at the News-Press at Fort Myers, Fla. For a report on this project see article on Gannett's corporate website.
The term Mojo is now of regular use within the community of journalists. Mojo journalism was a topic at the Conference of the Online News Association in Washington, DC, in October, 2006 (see the report). It has been adopted by media observers such as writers at the Poynter Institute website (see for example article by Pat Walters).
For a report on what a Mojo's life is, see this story by Chuck Myron at Fort Myers News-Press.
Several freelance journalists and bloggers now define themselves as Mojos, including Joseph Hollak or Solo Mojo and M. Fagans or Digital Mojo.
