Strategically placing other mediums in a printed story is hard work. You have to know when the reader needs a break, or deserves one from the test. You have to know how it adds to the surrounding text and especially what element of the story the words used cannot convey.
However, designing these elements for people to click on them takes more skill. Check out some of my favorite multimedia elements some newsrooms use that anyone can add into their blog post or website to make it more sexy.
However, designing these elements for people to click on them takes more skill. Check out some of my favorite multimedia elements some newsrooms use that anyone can add into their blog post or website to make it more sexy.
Timeline JS
The Knight Lab has given journalists this embeddable timeline software where you can insert photos, videos, documents and other mediums to provide a chronological picture for whatever event, person, place or happening a journalist is reporting on. I’ve used this, and it’s easy to use, and it’s super sleek.
The Knight Lab has given journalists this embeddable timeline software where you can insert photos, videos, documents and other mediums to provide a chronological picture for whatever event, person, place or happening a journalist is reporting on. I’ve used this, and it’s easy to use, and it’s super sleek.
Users can also use its navigation at the bottom to click on a specific event they would like to know more about. Thanks to Timeline JS, users can travel through time with ease. Check out Time magazine's timeline, "Nelsom Mandela's Extraordinary Life: An Interactive Timeline" and more examples. below.
Infogram
We use these interactive graphs in our student newsroom to illustrate numbers. They’re easy to embed and change the size, and the site offers many options for how to display your numbers in an aesthetically pleasing way. Check out how kentwried.com used them in a story about increasing room and board rates.
We use these interactive graphs in our student newsroom to illustrate numbers. They’re easy to embed and change the size, and the site offers many options for how to display your numbers in an aesthetically pleasing way. Check out how kentwried.com used them in a story about increasing room and board rates.
SoundCloud
I always feel like I forget how a powerful audio piece can drive a story. When people can hear someone’s voice and actual noise from a scene, it adds to a written portion of a story. Check out this NPR story about what makes nursing so dangerous.
I always feel like I forget how a powerful audio piece can drive a story. When people can hear someone’s voice and actual noise from a scene, it adds to a written portion of a story. Check out this NPR story about what makes nursing so dangerous.
Exposure
This site allows you arrange your photos in a way that suits your story’s needs. For example, if you have a large cover photo and want to break a story into sections, you can do that. If the story has mostly photos, this site offers users layouts to display their work in various sizes in a pleasing way.
Check out photographer Scott Kelby's story on his time in Dubai using the site below.
This site allows you arrange your photos in a way that suits your story’s needs. For example, if you have a large cover photo and want to break a story into sections, you can do that. If the story has mostly photos, this site offers users layouts to display their work in various sizes in a pleasing way.
Check out photographer Scott Kelby's story on his time in Dubai using the site below.
Storify
I am so in love with Storify even though it makes citizen journalism very easy. Basically, this site allows users to pull social media posts about a certain topic just by a simple search. I can grab someone’s tweets, Instagram photos, Facebook statuses, Flickr photos and much more, put it together and tell a story from the different elements I pulled. This not only helps journalists crowd surf but it also allows for them to choose who is apart of the conversation.
I am so in love with Storify even though it makes citizen journalism very easy. Basically, this site allows users to pull social media posts about a certain topic just by a simple search. I can grab someone’s tweets, Instagram photos, Facebook statuses, Flickr photos and much more, put it together and tell a story from the different elements I pulled. This not only helps journalists crowd surf but it also allows for them to choose who is apart of the conversation.