Fran Bi is a storytelling engineer for SBNation. His focus is on taking sports features and finding new ways to tell them. "So, a lot of that is with graphics, whether it’s data visualizations or animations or any type of movement or something else where we …
You can't help but notice when short video loops or animations pop up in your social media channels. They're designed to draw your attention, and they do. It's time to get over yourself and get on board with Harry Styles https://t.co/LERM5ebV8k pic.twitter.com/18lL38CXxB — BuzzFeed (@BuzzFeed) April 23, …
Every news organization wants its stories shared as widely as possible. Managers encourage reporters to share their work using their own social media profiles, while the social media desk (if there is one) posts to the newsroom's main Twitter feed, Facebook page, and other outlets. …
In the early days of online video, interactivity looked something like this: A person on camera would point above, below or to the side of the video frame and suggest that the viewer might want to "click the link" to learn more about whatever they were …
Add another plaque on the wall for New Orleans investigative reporter Lee Zurik of WVUE. His series Louisiana Purchased, co-produced with the Times-Picayune's NOLA.com, just won IRE's small-market broadcast award. The investigation of campaign finance in Louisiana "exposed...direct influence peddling going on across the state," the judges wrote. The …
6 Lessons from a Murrow Award Winner by Deb Halpern Wenger Lisa Leko is a producer at WBIR in Knoxville, Tennessee, which won a national Edward R. Murrow Award for best newscast among stations in small markets in 2014. Leko recently took part in an RTDNA-sponsored webinar on …
Smooth as silk. I'm sure that's what the developers had in mind when they named Silk, a free tool for creating interactive visualizations. The online software can build tables, charts and maps in just a few clicks. It's what I used to create our new list of …
Some corporate logos have stood the test of time. Coca Cola's iconic red script and General Electric's GE-in-a-circle have been around since the late 1800s. But Betty Crocker sure doesn't look like she used to back in 1927. And NBC's logo has gone from xylophone to …
Too many TV stories use graphics as filler, when there's no obvious video available to cover a track. Full screens of text and numbers aren't very attractive but they're better than a black hole, right? If that's how you've thought about graphics in the past, …
More and more news organizations are creating interactive graphics that help users explore and understand their worlds. Some are pretty basic, others are more visually appealing, but all serve the same function of bringing data to life. On the hunt for some new examples, I searched …
Journalists are notorious for hating anything to do with math. If we'd been any good with numbers, I often joke, we might have chosen a different career. But it's essential for today's journalists to get comfortable working with data, and the good news is that …
Forgive me for tooting my own horn, but I'm pleased to announce the publication of the second edition of my book, Advancing the Story: Broadcast Journalism in a Multimedia World, co-authored with Deb Wenger. It's available now from CQ Press or Amazon, and we hope you'll …
