99 Designs highlights the Guardian NSA article I liked as a bad example of a Snowfall-eque multimedia feature: Rather than embed each speaker’s testimony in a single video, however, it breaks them up into many short fragments which play…
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Building a multimedia feature, The Guardian way
Fast Company takes a look at how The Guardian produced their multimedia NSA story: Sure, they could whip up a 5,000-word explainer and hit “publish” (as others have done and will undoubtedly continue to do) but today’s digital…
Snowfall-like features are no excuse for unclear storytelling
I meant to link this last week, but it got lost in the manifold tabs lurking in my browser… The Guardian did a really nice multimedia feature on what the NSA/Snowdon business actually mean to us as people. What…
Snowfalls eventually become slush
Bobbie Johnson on the future of journalism’s shiny new obsession Snowfall (and its ilk): Yet almost every example of snowfalling that I’ve seen in action puts reading second to the razzle-dazzle. Can you even remember what happens in…