WEBINAR: Friday, February 6, 2026 / 9am PT / 12pm ET
IIJ Presents
Mobile Reporting: Tools for Making Content On The Go
Level up your content creation skills with freelance journalists Jennifer Chowdhury and Victoria Lim, and discover a wide array of apps, gear, and strategies for shooting high quality photo and video using a smartphone.
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Key Takeaways
- How to capture high quality video and photo using a smartphone
- How to use free or affordable apps to edit videos for social media
- Tips for affordable gear to enhance your smartphone's capability
About this webinar
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Friday, February 6, 2026
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9am PT / 12pm ET
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Virtual
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75 minutes
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Free
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Recorded
Level up your content creation skills with freelance journalists Jennifer Chowdhury and Victoria Lim, and discover a wide array of apps, gear, and strategies for shooting high quality photo and video using a smartphone. In this hands-on demonstration, Lim will also discuss how these skills have helped her to raise her earning potential with existing clients, and also helped her to attract new ones.
Who is this panel for?
Experienced journalists or media creators who are new to vertical video.
Meet the moderator
Jennifer Chowdhury
Independent Journalist & Founder, Port of Entry
Jennifer Chowdhury is the founder of Port of Entry, a narrative journalism newsletter spotlighting overlooked stories from immigrant and diaspora communities across the U.S. A journalist and creative nonfiction writer with 15 years of experience, her reporting focuses on South Asian and Muslim diasporas, migration, and gender justice. Her work has appeared in The Washington Post, The New York Times, The Guardian, ELLE, and Prism Reports.
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Meet the Presenter
Victoria Lim
Independent Journalist
Victoria Lim is an Emmy- and AP-winning journalist recognized for pioneering multimedia storytelling, earning the nickname “Queen of Convergence” from the Poynter Institute. She has taught at the University of Missouri and was inducted into Temple University’s Journalism Hall of Fame. A longtime trainer for the Society of Professional Journalists, she has led workshops worldwide. Victoria now applies her storytelling expertise in corporate communications, previously for Disney and currently for Experian. She also co-founded the Asian American Journalism Association Sports Task Force and was named Chapter President of the Year by the AAJA.
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Meet the Moderator
Katherine Reynolds Lewis
founder of the Institute for Independent Journalists
Katherine is a science journalist and author based in the Washington, D.C. area who writes about education, equity, mental health, parenting, journalism, and social justice for publications including The Atlantic, The New York Times, Nieman Reports, Parents, and The Washington Post. Her 2018 book The Good News About Bad Behavior grew out of Mother Jones’ most-read article. A biracial woman (Asian American and White), she previously worked as a national correspondent for Newhouse News Service and Bloomberg News.
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The Institute for Independent Journalists
The Institute for Independent Journalists is an education, professional development, and mutual support organization for independent journalists, focusing on Black, Indigenous and people of color. Our mission is financial and emotional sustainability for independent journalists of color, through community learning, innovation and advocacy.
Our mission is to ensure financial and emotional sustainability for independent journalists of color, by:
Connecting freelancers for learning, collaboration and mutual support in a space that centers marginalized voices and facilitates authenticity and vulnerability.
Creating tools, services and shared wisdom for economic self-sufficiency and mental health, regardless of churn in journalism or who controls newsrooms.
Advocating for fair and equitable treatment of freelancers and best practices for ethical use of independent labor, throughout the media.
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