April 16, 2010 • 3:54 pm
To help our discussion of multimedia reporting, please link to two examples of excellent us of multimedia in a reporting context. This can be an interactive, like this map of Netflix Rentals by the New York Times, or more traditional multimedia like video, audio, and slideshows.
Please post your links, with a paragraph explaining why they’re great, in the comments of this post.
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http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-4675230075555097019#
This is a story about an interactive tool companies can use to get consumers’ input on their products. It’s a great tool.
http://www.mefeedia.com/news/11599793
An amazing news story but it had to be shown in order to take it further. The interactive classroom is a great opportunity for students and this story illustrates this in this video.
http://waterlife.nfb.ca/
This site uses beautifully designed multi-media to give voice to its cause — preserving the waters of America’s Great Lakes
http://www.publicintegrity.org/investigations/tobacco/
Another aesthetically powerful tool is this site’s extensive world map of not only smuggling hotspots and shipping routes but also a variety of links to other content features on the subject
http://www.lasvegassun.com/multimedia/rx_interactive/
An interactive map from the Las Vegas Sun on prescription narcotic consumption by drug and state. Effective in that it filters a large chunk of information to manageable doses (unintentional pun).
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2010/04/22/science/earth/20100422_environment_timeline.html?ref=multimedia
Environmental change timeline from NYT. With timelines, it’s always a gamble as some milestones are inevitably excluded, but here NYT further refines its points by category: endangered species, oil and energy, etc.
I thought this NYT interactive time line was really interesting for Earth Day. It shows the past 70 years in events and legislature pertaining to the environment, with added background information about each milestone.I thought it was interesting that they left off at the climate change summit in Copenhagen last year, and didn’t mention this recent volcano debacle. Considering it was perhaps the first time in history the whole commercial airline industry was brought to a stand still by one geological event, I think that might classify as environmental history.
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2010/04/22/science/earth/20100422_environment_timeline.html?ref=multimedia
Also: http://www.cnn.com/2010/US/04/22/oil.rig.explosion/index.html?hpt=T1 This is an updated video of the oil rig that exploded yesterday. What is interesting about this is how the initial explosion itself was caught on video and the whole incident been updated via video by almost every news outlet.
http://projects.latimes.com/mexico-drug-war/#/its-a-war
LA Times, “Mexico Under Siege: Drug Wars at Our Doorstop”
This article is great because it does an excellent job of cramming a ton of information into an all in one, easy to use site. Its very interactive and uses the tools available to guide a user easily through the graphics. An entire series of reporting is linked within and I think the research really shows through well.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/interactive/2007/jan/25/volcanos
The Guardian, “Volcanoes: why they erupt”
This is a much more simple presentation, but still very effective. It does a good job of explaining the scientific half of a very current news story. Again, it’s very easy to use while also passing along a lot of information.
Here’s an awesome interactive multimedia feature about Hubble’s 20th anniversary.
Cool stuff:
http://www.nasa.gov/externalflash/Hubble20/