Here is where print can certainly make the content shine. The larger canvas of a printed page allows for visuals to tell the story at a glance, and we see this in the following pages from The Washington Post.
I asked Design Director Greg Manifold to share a few of the pages from The Post, in which the designers were able to show miniatures of the pages of the Report, to give us a sense of how much of it had been redacted. Here the reader can make immediate decisions having to do with how much was revealed to the public and what was not.
It is such a good idea that The New York Times, coincidentally, did exactly the same treatment with the entire contents of the Muller Report (courtesy of my friend and colleague, J Ford Huffman:
Here are the rest of the pages:
The digital presentation
Here we see how visually unified the print and digital versions of the story appeared. We agree with Greg that this was a job well done by designers to make sure that the same look & feel prevailed across platforms:
I am extremely proud of this digital effort from Design and Politics. Really married with the five pages of highlights we did in print.
Thought it was easy to navigate and read through.
Mario’s speaking engagements
Here are places where I will be taking the message of mobile storytelling in the weeks ahead:
April 24, United Nations, New York, Mobile Storytelling workshop for Corporate Global Communications team
May 15 INMA, New York City International News Media Association’s Mobile Storytelling Workshop
May 25, Milan, Italy, EidosMedia Annual Customer Meeting, Keynote: Mobile First Strategies for Publishers
June 12, NEC Media City, Bergen, Norway, Storytelling workshop for Editors
June 13, Fortellingens kraft 2019, Bergen, Norway, Long form Mobile Storytelling for Writers
July 11, Florida Media Conference, St. Petersburg, FL, Keynote for editors: The mobile first newspaper strategy.
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An interview of interest
http://www.itertranslations.com/blog/2019/3/11/fd60ybflpvlqrgrpdp5ida5rq0c3sp
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