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Month: December 2016

The Mass Shootings-Five Years Unfolding Before You

December 14, 2016 al

The tragedy is not that it happened once. Mass shootings happen year upon year. Field of Vision – Speaking is Difficult from Field Of Vision

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4.1 Miles

December 14, 2016 al

You are not likely to see another video as stunning as this anytime soon. The New York Times’ 4.1 Miles video, a documentation in natural

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A Local TV Station Dedicates 3-Years to Investigating Hospital Billing
This anchor created a simple system that resulted in more women experts getting on TV. No bosses or consultants were involved.
Behind the Scenes: how three reporters in three cities worked together on one daily turn story
Why a TV station didn’t air a Nazi protest
Alaska media show how to use social media to cover the 7.0 quake
A Thanksgiving Story
Some of the Cool Tools I showed at EIJ 2018

Nieman Lab

Here’s what ProPublica learned about managing a collaboration across hundreds of news organizations
Here is a step-by-step guide for news outlets to share power with underserved communities
People who are given correct information still misremember it to fit their own beliefs
Four ways Mother Jones became profitable in this turbulent industry
This is how Report for America ended up funding a community Wikipedia editor (!) at a library (!!)
What do authority and curiosity sound like on the radio? NPR has been expanding that palette from its founding
Small experiments beat big ones, and other takeaways from BizLab’s public radio innovation summit

InteractiveNarratives.org

Junkoâs Story: Surviving Hiroshimaâs Atomic Bomb
An intimate account of one young girlâs harrowing experience and miraculous survival.
The Boat
âThe Boatâ, an interactive graphic novel about escape after the Vietnam War. Based on the story by Nam Le, adapted by Matt Huynh.
Which Direction Do You Sleep?
A kinetic type story illustrating a common understanding within Ayurvedic practice. Created for my motion graphics class this semester at Ohio University.
Cronulla Riots - The Day That Shocked the Nation
Investigate the simmering tensions between groups of Australians that led to racially motivated violence at Sydneyâs Cronulla Beach in December 2005.
Rebuilding Haiti
Four years after the earthquake, how is Haiti rebuilding itself? If you were part of the process, would you be able to make the right choices? âRebuilding HaÃ¯ti" is an interactive piece of journalism. The form mixes newsgame and longform journalism. The story is about development issues (like rural exodus, land reform and brain drain). […]
Blind Wrestler
Shot and Produced by Jose F. Moreno/Courier-Post

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Columbia Journalism Review

Podcast: Carole Cadwalladr and disinformation at the ballot box
The journalistic newsfeed: editorial values and algorithms
Boris Johnson and Brexit come out of cold storage
Who didn’t kill Jimmy Hoffa
MSNBC public editor: What if Rachel Maddow is right?
Whose responsibility is the right to be forgotten?

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