Mobile Learning for teaching journalism from a remote television set during COVID-19

This research describes the implementation of a system that allows a television studio to operate through cell phones and mobile applications, this innovation was developed in a university in Peru for television journalism courses. This is an applied research with a qualitative approach, which describes the development of this innovation from the experience of its creator and details how different technologies were made to converge so that students could broadcast news programs from their homes by operating the equipment located on the television set of tv. The results allow us to conclude that the pandemic has led to the invention of educational solutions that hybridize television technologies, cell phones, mobile applications and the Internet, from this convergence it was possible for students to develop journalistic educational skills remotely. © 2022 Latin American and Caribbean Consortium of Engineering Institutions. All rights reserved.

Technological Innovations in the Production of Peruvian Television Newscasts During the Emergence of Covid-19

The outbreak of Covid-19 imposed radical changes in all human activities and television journalism was no exception. This study aims to analyze the innovations that were applied by television journalists in Peru in order to continue practicing their work in one of the countries hardest hit by the pandemic. The applied methodology was qualitative, semi-structured interviews were carried out which allowed knowing the innovations that were applied to overcome the dangers and sanitary restrictions. As a result, it was obtained that the journalists hybridized their teams and production methods with non-television technologies such as video calls, mobile phones, or the implementation of telework to continue producing television news in a context for which they were never prepared. © 2023, The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd.