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Open Documentary Lab at MIT | MIT’s Open Documentary Lab brings technologists, storytellers, and scholars together to advance the new arts of documentary. MIT – Docubase | The open documentary lab How Journalists At The Guardian Built That Epic NSA Story ⚙ Co The Guardian knew it had a massive story on its hands. Its NSA surveillance scoop was one of the biggest national news stories in years. But the team quickly realized that the story would spiral out of control because of its complexity--new leads were emerging daily as details emerged. To overcome the story's complexity, the paper assembled a team of journalists, developers, and designers to come up with a new, stunning way to tell it. When it went live on November 1, the finished product--a six-part multimedia extravaganza entitled NSA Files Decoded: What the revelations mean for you--was met with resounding praise among the type of online journalism geeks that go nuts for this kind of thing. Weaving together long form text, documentary-quality video interviews, embedded documents, and interactive graphics, the story instantly generated a level of buzz not seen about a single piece of journalism since the New York Times published its Snow Fall piece last year.