1.  Twitter

Twitter may be a social networking site but it has also turned out to be one of the most influential reporting websites in the world, with even the most advanced news providers unable to provide the instant, second-by-second reporting by people at the scene that Twitter facilitates. As well as being able to share your own opinions, links and articles with your followers, it is a great way to get first hand live information whether it be a football match, a celebrities latest thoughts or eye-witness reports from a disaster zone.

2. AP Mobile

This app from the Associated Press is exactly what you would expect, providing reliable and well-researched content from the most respected news institution in the world. The best bit about the app is the level of customisation, with users able to choose what areas of news they would like to see, from local news to sport or business. The content is not just limited to text with many articles including images and videos from the latest reporting around the world, ensuring you stay up-to-date with all the latest news.

3.  Dragon Dictation

Many of you will already have heard of the Dragon Dictation app and even those of you that haven’t can probably work out what it does from the name! Dragon Dictation is the leading voice-recognition application and, like the old-school tape recorder, allows you to simply speak into it to record your thoughts or opinions. Perfect for journalists, the Dragon Dictation app not only records whatever you say but also transform this audio into text which can either be saved, emailed or even texted. You can even update your Facebook or Twitter or write reminders for yourself, making it the ideal addition for journalists reporting from the scene or wanting to record key facts.

4. WordPress

Most journalists these days will have their own blogs and if they don’t, they should! The vast majority of these blogs are free blogs hosted on WordPress whether using a WordPress domain or they’re own domain so it was only a matter of time before they brought out an app. The app itself didn’t disappoint, offering a simple but effective way to easily update your blog on the move. You can write and publish posts, delete or edit previous posts, incorporate images, videos and audio and much more.

5.  Dropbox

With the various apps you can get, a journalists job can be done almost entirely from an iPhone – but this can also be its undoing as keeping all your work on your phone can be risky. Not just because of the possibility of losing or damaging your phone but also the risk that even a small glitch may result in you losing all your work. However, Dropbox is designed to help you keep your work saved on an external server through cloud computing – meaning that every time you sync the app through Wi-Fi or 3G, the articles, data, audio or video you are looking to save will be saved online. This can then be accessed on any other computer or iPhone simply by logging into your (free) Dropbox account. A great way to ensure your work doesn’t get lost if the worst should happen.

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