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Web Tools for Multimedia Storytelling - Tech@CUNYJTech@CUNYJ Want to make your stories more engaging? Here are a few tools that might help The world is an immersive, sensory experience. Shouldn’t our stories be too? Introducing Pulp and Pulp Press How we made our first comics-journalism feature—and the tools for you to make one, too Last week, Al Jazeera America published its first piece of comics journalism—a co-production between reporter Michael Keller and cartoonist Josh Neufeld. “Terms of Service: Understanding our role in the world of Big Data” is an illustrated look at privacy and technology in an age where people are putting more and more of their personal information online, or using new devices like sensors to record their exercise and sleeping habits. One of our big questions was how this comic would look online and on phones. We thought we would walk through some of design process and also document some of the code tricks we learned along the way. The final products are a web viewer, Pulp, and the comic-maker interface, Pulp Press, that we have just released as a free and open source project.

The Best Online Storytelling and Journalism of 2014 5) A Big Year for Crowdsourcing and Eyewitness Media The term crowdsourcing is nearly 10 years old, but in 2014 crowdsourcing in journalism took a few big steps forward. Right at the end of 2013 user generated content and eyewitness media got a boost when Storyful was purchased by News Corp (my take here). In Syria Shattered Storyful worked with the Wall Street Journal for a three part series weaving together incredible before and after pictures, poignant original video and eyewitness video sourced from YouTube users.

The Best Online Storytelling and Journalism of 2013 In 2012 I posted a round-up of the best online journalism of the year, which grew as others added their favorites. My list focused on journalism that could only be done online, the kind of storytelling that take advantage of the unique opportunities the Internet provides. This tended to be deeply visual reporting that wove together text, audio, images and videos. As I created my 2013 list however, I saw much more data journalism and an increasing use of tools that engaged readers or rethought the basic flow of storytelling for a more participatory audience. The ghosts of the New York Time’s “Snow Fall” article from 2012 haunted debates about online journalism in 2013 – it even became a verb.

How what you eat demands more water than you think it does - Los Angeles Times By Kyle Kim, Jon Schleuss and Priya Krishnakumar April 7, 2015 California's crippling drought has prompted conservation efforts, such as replacing grass lawns and minding how long you leave the tap water running. But what about the food on your plate? Agriculture uses 80% of California's water supply, and producing what you eat can require a surprising amount of water. The number next to the plate below represents the direct and indirect amount of water required to produce your food plate, based on U.S. data from the Water Footprint Network. Michelle Ashford Filmography as a writer[edit] Filmography as a producer[edit] References[edit] California's Getting Fracked California s Getting Fracked Everything oil companies aren’t telling you about the extent of fracking in California, and what it means for your food, water, and health.

Start - Otto’s Journey 2011 on the roof of the world: Gunther Holtorf with Otto against the backdrop of Mount Everest When Gunther Holtorf looks at a map, memories immediately pop up in his head: memories of past visits, encounters and adventures. Pick up any country –he has been there. Or at least every country you can get to with a four-wheel drive car. The 25 Best Films Directed By Female Filmmakers Studies show that half of all film school graduates are women, yet only 5% of them are working Hollywood directors. This is not only a problem in Hollywood, but everywhere in the world. There’s prejudice and difficulties akin to them, common stories of declined financing help and even production interruptions due to certain chosen themes and subjects in their work. There are exceptions to the rule that are forgotten, and others that are now breaking through.

Look At This : NPR I’m Wes Lindamood, an interaction designer on the NPR Visuals team. I’ll be joining you here on Look At This from time to time to explore design, technology and (I hope) some interesting stories about how we see the world. Today’s rabbit hole: Faces in things. "Ooh - I think I hear the recycling truck!"— @FacesPics A funny photo showed up in my Twitter feed a few weeks ago, and it was the most delightful thing I saw all day. The 16 Best Movies About Female Mental Illness Understanding the mind has never been easy. When an ailment is not psychically tangible, it is easy to dismiss. This is especially true when you try to understand the minds of a population of individuals, who, until the last 100 years or so, were supposed to be seen rather than heard. Ever since the genesis of its practice, the relationship between psychology and women has been ambiguous at best. The so called father of psychology Sigmund Freud famously stated, “the great question…which I have not been able to answer, despite my thirty years of research into the feminine soul is ‘What does a woman want.’” Even so, it was unlikely he was liable to find out as he also asserted that “women oppose change, receive passively and add nothing of their own.”

Making Timelines NICAR 2015, Lena Groeger What does history look like? How do you draw time? Lots of people have come up with solutions to this problem. Many of them involve lines. These 10 Fantastic Non-Disney Movies of the '80s and '90s Are Just as Good as Anything Disney Ever Released! Through the late '80s and '90s there's no denying that Disney totally owned the animated movies game. Films such as The Little Mermaid, Aladdin and Beauty and the Beast totally changed the face of what animated films could be, and relaunched Disney into the mega success they are today. But despite being the benchmark for animated film, that doesn't mean that they didn't have strong rivals doing their best to produce top notch animated films during this period. In fact there were some amazing animated films produced in the 80s and 90s that had nothing to do with Disney in the slightest.