The Principles of Multimedia Journalism

Packaging Digital News

Richard Koci Hernandez, Jeremy Rue

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2015
• Print ISBN: 9780415738156
• eBook ISBN: 9781317814061
• Topic: Languages & Linguistics
• Subtopic: Journalism
• Index: Languages & Linguistics

In this much-needed examination of the principles of multimedia journalism, experienced journalists Richard Koci Hernandez and Jeremy Rue systemize and categorize the characteristics of the new, often experimental story forms that appear on today's digital news platforms. By identifying a classification of digital news packages, and introducing a new vocabulary for how content is packaged and presented, the authors give students and professionals alike a way to talk about and understand the importance of story design in an era of convergence storytelling.

Online, all forms of media are on the table: audio, video, images, graphics, and text are available to journalists at any type of media company as components with which to tell a story. This book provides insider instruction on how to package and interweave the different media forms together into an effective narrative structure. Featuring interviews with some of the most exceptional storytellers and innovators of our time, including web and interactive producers at the New York Times, NPR, The Marshall Project, The Guardian, National Film Board of Canada, and the Verge, this exciting and timely new book analyzes examples of innovative stories that leverage technology in unexpected ways to create entirely new experiences online that both engage and inform.

Index

• Abramson, Jill 153
• Academy of Arts and Sciences 70
• Adams, Douglas 27
• Adobe Flash 8, 202
• Adobe InDesign 36
• Adobe PageMill 49
• Advanced Research Projects Agency Network (ARPANET) 32
• AJ Plus (AJ+) 177
• Allison, Leanne 144 see also “Bear 71” (NFB)
• “Alma—A Tale of Violence” (Arte TV)86–7, 88f
• “Always Connected: How Smartphones and Social Keep Us Engaged” (IDC survey) 175
• Amaria, Kainaz 123
• Amazon Echo 203
• American Journalism Review 58, 68
• America Online46–7
• Andreessen, Marc 38
• And That’s the Way It Will Be: News and Information in a Digital World (Harper) 55
• animation 12–13
• Apple iPad 171–2
• Apple iPhone: Adobe Flash and 71–2
  • first-generation 71
  • news packages and 8–9
• Apple Macintosh computer 37
• Apple Media Kit 40
• Appumentary 177
• AT&T 35
• audio, digital news packages and 192–3
• audio recorders 3–4
• audio slideshows 19

• “Babies Grow Up, The” (Chicago Tribune) 52, 52f, 54
• Bardazzi, Marco 183–4
• “Bear 71” (NFB) 144–6, 144f, 146f
• Berkeley J-School see UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism (J-School)
• Berners-Lee, Tim 38
• Bhatnagar, Ranjit 59
• biological-taxonomy 89–90
• “Black Hawk Down” (Philly Online) 57, 59–61, 60f
• Blau Monument 25–6
• blogging 3
• Bloomberg Businessweek 203
• Boczkowski, Pablo J...

Table of contents

• Cover Page
• Half Title Page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Dedication
• Table of Contents
• Figures
• Preface—Caterina Visco
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction to Digital News Packages
• The Evolution of the Digital News Package
• Classification of Digital News Packages
• Continuous (Case Study: The Verge)
• Comprehensive (Case Study: Planet Money, NPR)
• Immersive (Case Study: National Film Board of Canada Digital Studio)
• Intersections (Case Studies: New York Times, Guardian, National Geographic)
• Lean-Back, Lean-Forward, Stand-Up
• A Major Shift in Approach
• Stepping Back, Moving Forward
• Index