Multimedia Journalism: How Video, Audio, Animation, and Other Features are Creating a New Journalistic Storytelling Style Nora Paul Jane Stevens Alberto Cairo Jonathan Dube

Our Panel  Nora Paul – Are Video, Audio, Animation, etc. Creating a New Journalistic Storytelling Style?  Jane Ellen Stevens - The Power and Economics of Backpack Journalism  Alberto Cairo – Online Infographics: Fast, Accurate, Interactive, Multimedia  Jonathan Dube – Creating Digital Stories at MSN

Sites to See Digital Stories  Jon Dube’s Cyberjournalist.Net – Great Works Gallery:  Andrew Devigal’s Interactive Narratives:  Laura Ruel’s SND.ies Awards:

“Art begins in imitation and ends in innovation.”  Mason Cooley

Imitation Sites look like (cluttered) newsprint pages… …and like each other

Imitation  Majority of stories are columnar

Elements of Digital Storytelling

 EXPERIENCE  EXPLORE  RECONSTRUCT

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Without tradition, art is a flock of sheep without a shepherd. Without innovation, it is a corpse. Without tradition, art is a flock of sheep without a shepherd. Without innovation, it is a corpse. Winston Churchill Winston Churchill

Jane Ellen Stevens  Touching Hearts:  Yahoo Shell: Asia Disaster  Tsunami Blog tsunamihelp.blogspot.com tsunamihelp.blogspot.com  Beat Shell seattlepi.nwsource.com/transportation seattlepi.nwsource.com/transportationseattlepi.nwsource.com/transportation

Jonathan Dube  Airport Security Airport Security Airport Security  Big Picture: Oscars 2005 Big Picture: Oscars 2005 Big Picture: Oscars 2005  Kuma\War Kuma\War