Still covering news with a pad and pen? WTF?

Katy Culver at Poynter offers at least 8 ways you can cover breaking news with advanced multimedia tools:

1. Map it.
2. Create a timeline.
3. Capture audio.
4. Curate social objects.
5. Blog it live.
6. Hashtag tweets.
7. Shoot video.
8. Narrate a slideshow of photos.

You can do all of this on the fly and in the field with a smartphone or a tablet.