Not that I needed to read this New York Times story to become aware that New York’s rats are out and unashamedly so. Every time I stand on the platform waiting for a subway I am witness to some huge rats roaming around the tracks. I always wonder how they don’t get killed, although they usually manage to run away when the trains approach.
I also see huge rats circulating trash bags, especially in the Midtown area.
So now The New York Times has made it official. In the process, we get all the nasty facts about our new neighbors in the Big Apple, with a cute one crawling across our screen, perhaps to evoke sympathy for the rodents, although I think not.
I, too, found the rat crawling across the screen quite cute as I read this story. Nothing funny about the story, but I am glad that the visual storyteller in charge decided to have a little fun, another advantage of mobile storytelling.
Experience it yourself
Mario’s speaking engagements
Here are places where I will be taking the message of mobile storytelling in the weeks ahead:
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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