This morning’s Washington Post print edition carried a story built out of an annotated Facebook feed. The piece was posted to washingtonpost.com last night with the title “A Facebook story: A mother’s joy and a family’s sorrow.” While I’d seen the Post and other papers structure stories around Twitter and Tumblr feeds, and Slate’s mock [...]
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Facebook as narrative: The Washington Post tries it out online and in print
December 10, 2010 – 12:02 pm
“There’s no app for that”: Peggy Nelson talks timing, technology and story
June 25, 2010 – 2:33 pm
Journalists use technology to tell stories, but technology has its own stories to tell, sometimes the very opposite of the ones we expect. In this series of articles, I’ll explore the impact of technology on narrative, and offer some observations from my work in new media — how technology suggests new types of tales, and new [...]
Liza Faktor on Objective Reality and visual storytelling: “I have never been this excited by technology in my life”
June 1, 2010 – 3:33 pm
What approaches are other countries taking to visual storytelling? How can storytellers thrive in places where journalism has been suppressed or simply doesn’t exist? Pondering these questions, we recently talked via Skype with Liza Faktor, director of the Moscow-based Objective Reality Foundation. We first learned of Objective Reality when Faktor asked for permission to translate [...]
