It’s like any other weekday morning walk to the newsroom. You’re taking the route through the park, your headphones are in, you’re contemplating the day ahead and wait, is that who you think it is? You’ve spotted an incredibly famous rock legend. Will you be able to snag an interview?

Whether you work for a big media outlet or you’re a budding food blogger, you need to be ready when a great story presents itself. With these apps to hand, you’ll be able to kick off a live-stream, expertly take photos, master your note-taking and record the best-quality audio. If you’re dreaming of the Pulitzer Prize, or you simply want to create fresh and innovative content, these apps are the perfect reporting companions.

With Switcher Studio, you can live-stream within minutes. Think of it as your mobile broadcast studio, helping you to synchronise videos from different devices and select the ones you need for each particular segment.

Use Switcher Studio to create different transitions, add in text and titles, and share the big moments via your social network of choice.

Doing an interview and not taking a photo is like climbing Everest and having no evidence you did it. To capture the moment, team up with ProCamera; with the app’s vivid HDR mode you’ll improve your high-dynamic-range images.

And if you need to shoot at night time, try the LowLight mode to preserve the quality of your pics. Snap your interviewee with the best image quality and give your interview a major boost.

Bear provides a simple and organised space where you can either take notes or document your interviews. The app lets you format the text using symbols, so you can avoid distractions and focus on your writing; you can organise all your content using hashtags, enabling you to quickly sort your notes.

You’ll also be able to sync your content between devices, so you can start writing a story on your iPhone and finish it on your office computer.

You’re about to start an interview and... your mobile battery is low. Don’t panic. With Awesome Voice Recorder Pro AVR on your Apple Watch, you can record voices in the best audio quality and in the format you need.

In addition to its intuitive interface, the app allows you to reduce the background noise, add descriptions to the recordings and use audio visualisation so that you can easily identify voice sections.

If you want to edit and clean the audio of your interview, Ferrite Recording Studio has all the tools for the job. It allows you to modify the gain of your mic both live and in editing, and thanks to its multitrack option, you can easily edit different audio tracks.

And if you prefer to enhance your audio, try the app’s features for bookmarking, automatic ducking and silence removal. With audio recordings this sleek, you’ll soon be the king or queen of the sound waves.