Posted on July 9th, 2008 by Deborah Potter
“Coincidence or Cluster,” an investigation by the Northwest Herald in Crystal Lake, Illinois, proves you don’t have to be a big news organization to make an online splash. The small-circulation daily put together a meaty online version of its six-part series on a suspected brain cancer cluster in nearby McCullom Lake, including videos, an interactive [...]
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Posted on July 7th, 2008 by Deb Wenger
The Online News Association is behind the re-launch of a site devoted to showcasing multimedia journalism. According to ONA president Jonathan Dube, Interactive Narratives is worth checking out. The new Interactive Narratives is designed to capture the best of online visual storytelling around the country and the world. The goal is to highlight rich-media content, engaging [...]
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After a tornado wiped out a third of a nearby town on Memorial Day, the Des Moines Register created an interactive map on its Web site that lets users “see the breathtaking scope of the disaster house-by-house, with photos and stories from the survivors.” The map is color-coded to show the level of damage, and [...]
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Posted on May 27th, 2008 by Deborah Potter
The talented team at the Raleigh News & Observer has done it again. Their online multimedia companion to a five-part print series on mental health reform gives users multiple ways to explore the story. Photojournalist Travis Long’s video is compelling, Judson Drennan’s interactive map breaks down spending county-by-county and Valerie Aguirre’s flash graphics bring the [...]
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Posted on May 22nd, 2008 by Deborah Potter
Did they ever really go away? SPJ’s Jon Marshall contends that hidden cameras fell out of favor in TV newsrooms after the ABC News-Food Lion case in 1992. On his NewsGems blog, Marshall writes, “Fortunately, it looks like they’ve made a strong comeback as part of some great stories.” His post highlights three recent stories [...]
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Posted on May 22nd, 2008 by Deb Wenger
If imitation is the greatest form of flattery, then you might want to consider complimenting the winners of the 2008 EPpy Awards by imitating them. At the very least, you’ll want to check out what some of these folks are doing online. The EPpys are awarded by Editor & Publisher to honor superior online content. [...]
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Posted on May 20th, 2008 by Deborah Potter
Take one news helicopter, stir in some GPS data, add a Google map, and what you get is a mash-up that TechCrunch calls “uniquely informative eye-candy.” It’s from the Fox station in Chicago, which is now streaming video online from “Air Fox Live” during the “Good Day Chicago” morning show and any time the chopper [...]
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Posted on May 18th, 2008 by Deborah Potter
The Fox station in Washington, D.C. has a terrific online supplement to its two-part TV series, MIsmanaged Secrets, about FBI record-keeping. The Web extras include .pdf copies of FBI files on famous Washingtonians, along with a brief bio for each person. There’s also an annotated page that decodes FBI symbols and shorthand, instructions on how [...]
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Posted on May 16th, 2008 by Deborah Potter
Add another acronym to your journalism glossary. Students in the New Media Publishing Project at Northwestern University’s j-school are testing LoJo, or “locative journalism” and blogging about it at Lojoconnect. As students Ki Mae Heussner and Amy Lee explain it on MediaShift, “locative storytelling provides multimedia content that enhances a user’s connection to a given [...]
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Posted on May 14th, 2008 by Deborah Potter
MSNBC has unveiled some innovative ways of getting the news at NewsWare, its “laboratory for news-infused games, tools and other experimentation.” Among them: two “immersive” news apps (a customizable newsreader and a screensaver), a couple of news widgets and two news arcade games. The idea is to make news more accessible and fun. I’ve just [...]
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