Ian Reeves

Assessment  80 per cent project  20 per cent exam

Project  A piece of journalism that uses digital tools to tell its story in an engaging and compelling way  No rules on length, style or subject matter – but you will need to pitch to me first, and specify your target audience  You will also do a short 5-minute presentation to the group once your pitch has been approved, setting out your aims  Marks awarded for quality of journalism, audience engagement, effectiveness of storytelling, innovation, and use of the medium  Deadline: Friday 10 April 2015 – last day of spring term

Exam  Two hour exam in summer term, testing your understanding of the digital tools and techniques being used by journalism organisations  Their impact on the industry  The considerations for journalists using them  Academic research into some of the techniques being used

Areas of investigation  Linear and non-linear narrative structures  Static and dynamic structures  Data scraping  Data visualisation  Mapping  Crowdsourcing  Social media  Games  ‘Live’ journalism  Reaching mobile audiences – tablets and smartphone content

Examples and ideas  Wikileak Iraq death map iraq-deaths-map  Good magazine, kinetic typography – cost of Iraq war  News21’s talking bar chart  Out my window: 360 o documentary

Examples and ideas  New York Times interactive: you fix the budget graphic.html  Cody’s Rescue: quick-cut video storytelling  Guardian pledge tracker tracker

Examples and ideas  France24 iPad documentary in-congo/id ?mt=8 in-congo/id ?mt=8  Wall Street Journal: Death toll in Afghanistan COUNT.html  Bloomberg: Google’s tax cutting strategy terminal.html

Examples and ideas  Washington Post: A Facebook Story mothers-joy-familys-sorrow.html  Facebook: Afghans in the City of Asterix group.php?gid= &v=wall  Tubestrike crowdmap  Wall St Journal interactive graph build-a-technology-empire/

Examples and ideas  BBC road deaths – interactive feature  World Trade Center Stories  The Marlboro Marine – LA Times marlboromarine-html,0, htmlstory marlboromarine-html,0, htmlstory

Examples and ideas  Symbolia iPad magazine: magazine/id ?ls=1&mt=8 magazine/id ?ls=1&mt=8  Election results on Prezi: results- prezi/?utm_source=em0nl0elec&utm_mediu m= &utm_campaign=gro results- prezi/?utm_source=em0nl0elec&utm_mediu m= &utm_campaign=gro

Examples and ideas  Fast Company: Journalism as live performance ve-conversations/detroiters-on-how-to- make-it-in-detroit ve-conversations/detroiters-on-how-to- make-it-in-detroit  Guardian: NSA files decoded ardian_elevating_multimedia_storytelling_p ardian_elevating_multimedia_storytelling_p

Examples and ideas  World Press Photo interactive winners -gallery/2013-multimedia-contest -gallery/2013-multimedia-contest  Firestorm – The Guardian ve/2013/may/26/firestorm-bushfire-dunalley- holmes-family ve/2013/may/26/firestorm-bushfire-dunalley- holmes-family  Planet Money makes a T-shirt – NPR

Examples and ideas  Serial podcast serial.podcast.org serial.podcast.org  Cyber athletes online documentary  Interactvie video: how is IS funded? east east