The topic is a sensitive one: the story of a a 6-year-old who lost her best friend in a school shooting. It’s cutting-edge storytelling, but it’s based on thorough and sensitive reporting by @JohnWoodrowCox
Greg Manifold, design director at The Washington Post, calls my attention to the fact that this animated story has premiered in VR last week at the Tribeca Film Festival.
We were looking for the chance to experiment as well as find a topic that worked in the format and would remain consistently relevant. The author and editor were willing to take a risk and give it a shot. In the end, it’s a great collaboration. Credit deserves to go to Suzette, Seth, John Woodrow Cox, Wesley Allsbrook (animator/illustrator), Ted Muldoon (audio) and a bunch of other folks.
This is the type of storytelling experimentation that we are likely to see more of in the future, a way to expand a reporter’s journalistic repertoire and bring greater engagement to the audience. I am delighted that I will be participating in a seminar in Bergen, Norway, Long form Mobile Storytelling for Writers,June 13, devoted entirely to this type of storytelling, and attended primarily by writers.
Take a look at the original story here:
Image courtesy of The Washington Post
Of related interest
Mario’s speaking engagements
Mario (above) doing a keynote presentation at Newscamp 2018 in Augsburg, Germany
Here are places where I will be taking the message of mobile storytelling in the weeks ahead:
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.
Mario’s weekend rituals…..
Monocle interviews me about what I do on a typical weekend (is there such a thing? Not for someone like me who is seldom in the same location twice. But I gave it my best shot, for what may come as a normal weekend, when I am home in New York! Enjoy.
https://monocle.com/minute/2019/04/27/
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An interview of interest
http://www.itertranslations.com/blog/2019/3/11/fd60ybflpvlqrgrpdp5ida5rq0c3sp
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