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# How mobile journalism can get you killed
- URL: https://onemanandhisblog.com/2016/12/mojo-warzones-danger-snipers/
- Published: 2016-12-06T11:29:43.000Z
- Updated: 2016-12-06T11:29:44.000Z
- Author: Adam Tinworth
- Tags: #mojo, Journalism, mobile journalism, safety

Caroline Scott finds that mojo has some unexpected dangers in war zones from [an interview with Nick Garnett of BBC 5Live](https://www.journalism.co.uk/news/you-re-holding-a-device-that-looks-like-a-gun-the-dangers-of-mobile-journalism-reporting-in-war-zones/s2/a695344/?ref=onemanandhisblog.com):

> “For years I have been extolling the virtues of small, hand-held devices, on the basis that they are non-intrusive, but here we have a situation where that could cause you more grief – frankly, you’re holding a device that looks like a gun.”
> 
> Garnett explained that as the country is very militarised, with guns part and parcel of everyday life, everything with a pistol grip, such as a gimbal, can look like a weapon from 100 metres away through the barrel of a sniper.

Very big, very obvious kit clearly still has its place.