Category: Transition to Digital

Transforming Narrative Storytelling

Brian Storm from MediaStorm, Jorge Sanhueza-Lyon from the Statesman.com and Andrew DiVigal from the NYTimes.com discuss the roll of multimedia narrative storytelling for the Web.  Read More

Online Journalism Gains Momentum

The Internet will be the central medium in journalism for the next generation, according to an online journalism symposium. About 100 people gathered from all over the world at the 7th International Symposium on Online Journalism in Austin from April 7-8. Rosental Calmon Alves, a journalism professor at the University of Texas, has hosted this …  Read More

More compelling multimedia news is needed, say online editors

The editors of NYTimes.com and The Dallas Morning News agree that print and online newsrooms will, and must, integrate. Training journalists to report in a multimedia format makes economic sense and creates better, more compelling news stories that attract different audiences to the news organization, they said. Len Apcar, editor in chief of the NYTimes.com, …  Read More

News Coverage: Past, Present, and Future

  The nature of online journalism has changed drastically since its inception in the early 1990s, but that evolution is nowhere near complete. Events such as the Iraqi War, and even the World Cup, are covered far differently today than they would have been five years ago. Similar events will be covered differently in the …  Read More