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Susan Currie Sivek: "At the AEJMC conference this summer, Google News head Richard Gingras called for journalism educators to think beyond today's standard news site architecture and story structures and to teach journalism students the tools of computer science and product design" ... 
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Eva Domínguez: "Two Pulitzer Prizewinners are preparing a game in order to make the world aware of the conditions of inequality in which women and children are suffering in many parts of the world. It will be released in the autumn and it’s another example of the use of ludic strategies in journalism, a tendency known as newsgaming" ... Via siobhan-o-flynn
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David Holmes: "A computer that can write like a human is a neat trick. But Moxie Awards finalist Narrative Science is taking the role of the robot journalist to the next level"...
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Paige Williams: "It’s been a little over a year since The Atavist debuted as a groundbreaking digital platform for long-form multimedia storytelling"...
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A reporter walks into a marketing agency and a “branded journalist” is born. Biserka Anderson: The bottom line is that to stand out in the glut of online voices, a branded newsroom needs to meet three conditions: It has to be open, transparent and rigorous; it has to adhere to journalistic values; and it has to embrace technological innovation [...]
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"Basetrack, a social media reporting project that accompanied a marine battalion on a deployment in Afghanistan, will be adapted into a series of theater performances [...] at Juilliard in New York." For more on this interesting multiplatform project read Bringing the war in Afghanistan home, by iPhone.
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Peter Usagi looks at Storify and Diigo as tools for transmedia journalism. And, as added interest, he shares his storified notes from "The Story of a Transmedia Revolution". These are great notes!
["The Story of a Transmedia Revolution" can be found @scoopit http://bit.ly/xojQbz (part one) & @scoopit http://bit.ly/yBOSVl (part two) ]
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Whenever people talk about games as a potential journalistic device, there is a reaction against the idea of 'play' as a method for communicating 'serious'...
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Imagine you're at a food bank outside the First Unitarian Church in Los Angeles. It's a clear and hot Saturday in August.
[The ultimate in immersive storytelling techniques.]
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Now, a new tablet application is allowing photographers to shoot 180 degrees frameless stories straight from the frontline. “Condition ONE will let people witness a story first-hand like never before,” promises its creator, American photojournalist and filmmaker Danfung Dennis.
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Looking at journalism in terms of Henry Jenkins’ seven principles, all of the characteristics of transmedia as he defines it have individually been implemented in a journalism or documentary context before...
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![World Building [Transmedia Journalism] | Transmedia: Storytelling for the Digital Age | Scoop.it](https://img.scoop.it/V8Fpdl6rkz2VkMz1xbfq1Tl72eJkfbmt4t8yenImKBVvK0kTmF0xjctABnaLJIm9)
The beauty of journalism, however, is that we don’t need to create stories, characters or worlds. The real world is our transmedia world and it is already filled with cultures, characters and stories to be written and produced, connected to each other and delivered through multiple media channels...
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Mona Zhang: "The latest cover of National Geographic features the story of the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, home to the Oglala Lakota" ... DRC: This article looks at the storytelling platform Cowbird and how it's being utilized by the Lakota to tell their own stories.
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Kevin Moloney: "For journalists (like me) journalism is a religion too. Like other religions it has a long history, dogma, ritual, and a well-formed system of ethics that helps us structure what we say and how we act" ...
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Natan Edelsburg: "The role TV played in Rather’s reporting from interviewing Martin Luther King Jr. to endless presidents paints a clear picture of how TV became the mass medium it is today that complements the social web" ...
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Lenika Cruz: "This project, still in its nascent stages, aims to bring attention to Southern California's cultural and artistic scene across 11 counties, providing in-depth criticism and analysis and by taking a "transmedia" approach, incorporating multiple platforms like video and photography in the telling of a single story."
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"An anonymous undercover reporter for Al Jazeera has captured the Syrian uprising in a first-of-its-kind-documentary — recorded on an iPhone."
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![Within Limits and Free of Constraints [Transmedia Journalism] | Transmedia: Storytelling for the Digital Age | Scoop.it](https://img.scoop.it/PuCgaCpfMBBAmBqk9icOezl72eJkfbmt4t8yenImKBVvK0kTmF0xjctABnaLJIm9)
Transmedia journalism does require more advance planning than other kinds of coverage. Decisions need to be made on questions like what the keystone medium will be, how will the story expand (not repeat) through other media, and what subset stories lend themselves to a particular medium. Our constraints of space and possibility are gone...
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These building blocks separate video from other storytelling formats, and the more you’re aware of them, the more efficiently you can create videos that have an impact...
[This is a useful article for anyone wanting to be a better video storyteller.]
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First, a transmedia approach to journalism would require that it be designed as transmedia from the start. Editors must consider what media are available to them and how the individual strengths of those media can be used to the story’s advantage...
[Another excellent piece from Kevin Moloney ....]
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One of the most talked-about--and harrowing--Sundance films wasn’t a film in the traditional sense. Hunger In L.A., which screened at the New Frontier Pavilion, is an interactive experience that puts participants in the middle of a shocking food line incident.
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Photography first, and now 360-degree video have served to experiment with spatial immersion in digital journalism in order to give the spectators the option to see the scene as it revolves around them, in any direction.
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![Electoral Politics and Reality TV [A transmedia meta-narrative] | Transmedia: Storytelling for the Digital Age | Scoop.it](https://img.scoop.it/c7j0qSG54F-JHPqiX0oHojl72eJkfbmt4t8yenImKBVvK0kTmF0xjctABnaLJIm9)
It is a transmedia meta-narrative. By transmedia I mean that it plays out not only in televised debates but also in ads, books, events, the daily paper, social media and shouting matches in bars...
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Here’s a miniature manifesto for transmedia journalism:
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