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# The iPad as 21st century notebook
- URL: https://onemanandhisblog.com/2011/09/the_ipad_as_21st_century_notebook/
- Published: 2011-09-15T15:44:33.000Z
- Updated: 2015-04-08T15:18:46.000Z
- Author: Adam Tinworth
- Tags: interviews, iPad, recording, reporting

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\[Jim Colgan\](http://www.poynter.org/how-tos/digital-strategies/142139/how-journalists-are-using-mobile-devices-to-enhance-their-reporting/):

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I’ve found mobile devices to be especially effective for on-the-street interviews. When New York City brought in a new system of letter grades for restaurant health inspections last year, the WNYC newsroom asked me to get reaction from New Yorkers. Using my iPad, I asked people on the street where they liked to eat and then looked up the restaurant’s inspection report online. I was able to capture their reactions when they heard the details — things like evidence of live vermin at their favorite restaurants. It was tape I could not have gotten in the moment without an iPad.

I suspect we’re only scratching the surface of the reporting possibilities a device that can be a notebook, a research tool, an audio recorder, a video edited and a publisher, and yet slip easily into a bag.