[social sandbox] visual stories, tools from Knight Lab, structured journalism
Hello everyone,
I was at NLGJA last week and sat in on a session about visual design. I thought I would pass along some of the interesting takeaways and links.
1. Here’s a list of visual stories that are unique in some way (curated by Gannett designer Tyler Chance.) Not all of them are journalism stories, which I think makes it better.
I particularly like this one called The Most Northern Place — and the way they integrated radio into the piece.
2. I learned there are a bunch of tools and projects from the Knight Center at Northwestern that we could take advantage of (via Miranda Mulligan)
StoryMap helps journalists craft stories where location is key to the narrative (Think about field reporting trips!)
Soundcite allows reporters to seamlessly drop inline audio into a story (It was designed by our own Tyler Fisher)
Also of note:
3. What is Structured Journalism? (via former NPR-er Chris Amico) (A new listserv to join if you’re interested in structured journalism: library, I’m looking at you.)
4. I noticed two things this weekend. Buzzfeed has a version of the Quotable Tool that allows them to put words over images. (Vox has one too. Their code is here.) I love these, in part, because it makes it easy to socialize stories on Pinterest, Instagram and adds more info to a Facebook/Twitter post.
5. Also: props to Eric Deggans and Madhulika Sikka for having a conversation on Twitter. I love seeing when people who work here converse outside of here on social. It makes us look human! Also: it lets more people know about us. Have conversation on twitter!
