The great horizontal versus vertical video formatting debate has been taking place on the Internet since the birth of the first smartphone. Now, publishers and editors who once forbid “amateur” vertical video are starting to change their views. Thanks to the introduction of smartphone apps like Snapchat and Periscope, the push for vertical video is at its highest ever.

At the University of Missouri’s School of Journalism, the Donald W. Reynolds Journalism Institute’s Futures Lab does a weekly update on innovation in journalism for the newsroom. This week, the RJI Futures Lab discusses experimenting, creating and displaying video in a vertical format for mobile audiences.

For more innovations and links, please visit RJI Futures Lab. For more information on changes to video formatting, check out this New York Times’ article on video on the small screen.