Can social media serve as source material for compelling news narratives? A number of innovative tools and programs have been developed that have interesting à la carte uses or make for beautiful visuals, but it is possible for any of them to carry the weight of a news story as it unfolds?
Over the weekend, TBD made a [...]
Tag Archives: Nieman Journalism Lab
Death outside a DC nightclub: TBD uses Storify to create a breaking news narrative
October 18, 2010 – 5:49 pm
Narrative journalism’s future: fighting words in some places
November 2, 2009 – 3:18 pm
Blog posts and articles on narrative journalism pinged around the Halloween weekend like eyeballs at a zombie food fight—and according to Washingtonian.com, an actual fight broke out at The Washington Post. While the Post’s Henry Allen (a Pulitzer winner for criticism) was reportedly knocking down and punching a younger feature writer over a disagreement related [...]
Meanwhile over at Nieman Lab…
October 21, 2009 – 9:50 pm
Josh Benton has a post about online narratives at our sister site, the Nieman Journalism Lab. Here’s an excerpt from it, describing a story that appeared on Gawker:
“Thomas’ story is about 2,000 words, and it’s a narrative. It spends a fair amount of time spinning backstory before getting to the juicy stuff. It was compelling reading [...]
