As the Associated Press’ new interactive editor, Troy Thibodeaux brings to the role the varied experience you’d expect of a former travel writer, English teacher and member of the NOLA.com and Times-Picayune team that won a Pulitzer for Hurricane Katrina … Read more
The latest edition of Swallow Magazine, a rarely published food periodical founded in 2009, features a novel way to experience the smells of Mexico City's culinary scene: Scratch and sniff stickers.
Maria Newman writes on the New York Times' Diner's Journal blog that the new issue, the title's third in four years, will contain 20 stickers that use the familiar microencapsulation technique to stimulate readers' olfactory senses. Editor James Casey decided to use the work of Sissel Tolaas, a Norwegian "odor artist" who re-created the smells of 200 Mexico City neighborhoods.
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Necessity is the mother of invention. That’s certainly been the case with the multimedia work I do. As senior multimedia producer at the Center for Investigative Reporting, I led digital storytelling projects for six years. We were often working with … Read more
To update an old saying for the Twitter era: A picture is worth a thousand characters.
Research by Twitter shows that tweets that include a photo or video receive 3 to 4 times more engagement (retweets, replies, etc.) than those … Read more
The Washington Post on Thursday became the latest news organization to take the increasingly fashionable step of blowing up its article template to present a feature story in a unique, immersive format.
In December, The New York Times blew some … Read more
The New York Times is pushing multimedia storytelling in an exciting direction with a new project drawing deservedly high praise.
Let’s face it: NYT just pulled off Best Web Design of 2012 with this. nyti.ms/12qOu1N
— Steve Silberman (@stevesilberman)
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As wildfires ravaged her state, Colorado College journalism lecturer Diane Alters emailed a list of fellow educators for suggestions on how to give her students breaking news reporting experience — and also keep them safe in the process.
The query … Read more
Sound can make or break a multimedia production, whether it’s an audio slideshow, a documentary video or an interactive narrative. Unfortunately, audio often gets short shrift. Visuals and interactive elements tend to command our attention, and just getting the story … Read more
I recently had the privilege of serving as a juror for the World Press Photo’s multimedia contest in Amsterdam.
This was, by far, one of the most organized contests I’ve attended. (For eight years I oversaw judging for the National … Read more