OU NewsCrowd

OU NewsCrowd Mobile Journalists Activate! The timeliness of these reports is especially critical in times of emergencies, natural disasters and severe weather.

StormCrowd is an innovative mobile reporting process developed through a collaboration of Ga***rd College and OU IT Development Office. StormCrowd is a web-based mobile tool that helps journalists report video stories from breaking news events as close to real time as possible. In 2012, Professors Julie Jones and John Schmeltzer led a team of 17 journalism and meteorology students outfitted with i

Pod Touches, shotgun microphones and mobile hot-spot devices to report on the Oklahoma severe weather season. Through an AEJMC/Knight Bridge grant and with assistance from Weather Decision Technologies, the first version of OU StormCrowd was built upon the open-source software Ushahidi. However, the Ushahidi environment was not ideal for reporting video news. On April 13th, 2012, the value of StormCrowd was tested as an EF1 tornado hit the OU campus and the surrounding neighborhoods of Norman. Although WiFi systems were spotty at best, the mobile reporters using StormCrowd beat all professional news organizations in on-the-ground reporting of the storm. StormCrowd has been featured in PBS's MediaShift and was a semi-finalist in the Knight News Challenge grant for mobile journalism tools. In December of 2013, we began developing a web version of StormCrowd to handle video reporting from any mobile device. We are in the last days of launching this new, bare bones version of our vision. We believe that StormCrowd can revolutionize the way we all think, share, and consume news. StormCrowd - it's news for the people!

01/02/2015

HI all, we are now OU NewsCrowd. You can find our page at thenewscrowd.com

16/06/2013

Retweeted Joneszz ():

Check out Carmen Forman's story in the Oklahoman today on computer data rescues in Moore. http://t.co/iAAEy1Q5EE

16/06/2013

Retweeted Joneszz ():

Great story by Zac Smith in Transcript on Serve Moore & Twitter. http://t.co/0bX4oVYaNX.

04/06/2013

Retweeted Kat Borgerding ():

Covering Oklahoma weather, one tweet at a time -- http://t.co/kntB5LvPAs via

31/05/2013

El Reno, Bethany, Mustang, Yukon and surrounding areas: SEEK SHELTER multiple tornados approach.

31/05/2013

Retweeted Wava Denito ():

LARGE TORNADO in El Reno and large baseball sized hail as well

31/05/2013

Retweeted NWS Norman ():

Please do not leave work or school this afternoon without checking the weather!! Dangerous storms peak 4pm to 8pm. Please re…

23/05/2013

Retweeted Lacie Lowry ():

Look how powerful the storm was in . This is incredible and horrifying. http://t.co/OJEXBmo2Ed

23/05/2013

Retweeted Hailey Branson-Potts ():

Oklahoma tornado leaves misery and relief in its twisted path http://t.co/ABjVgKt2Md

23/05/2013

Retweeted ARC ():

Do You Know Me? Animal Resource Center at 7949 S. I-35 Service Road. OKC, OK 73149 http://t.co/O…

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