In March 2023 we compared how several newsrooms ship vertical video, still galleries, and audio beds from the same field kit without abandoning desktop polish. The useful lists were short: what must be captured for phone-first publish, what can wait for the long cut, and who signs off captions before anything goes live.

Teams that kept one shared checklist for producers and editors avoided the familiar scramble where mobile gets a crop and desktop gets the story. The note below is the condensed version we still hand to partners who ask for a starting point.