Digital Storytelling

Travis Fox on NPR/Frontline collaboration: "I feel like it’s a great model for the future"

We’re longtime fans of the work of video producer Travis Fox, creator of engaging Web projects combining video and interactive elements. With so many journalists pondering narrative in the digital era,…
April 16, 2010
Andrea Pitzer
Canada's GDP Project: documenting the economic crisis, one story at a time

Canada’s GDP Project: documenting the economic crisis, one story at a time

A woman confronts financial distress by starting a project to do 100 jobs for $100 each. A painter, musician and former stripper moves to Toronto and tries to start over. A…
April 9, 2010
Andrea Pitzer
Marie-Claude Dupont on Canada's GDP Project: "we’re trying to show how these people reinvent themselves"

Marie-Claude Dupont on Canada’s GDP Project: "we’re trying to show how these people reinvent themselves"

photo credit: Martin DelisleWe spoke this week with Marie-Claude Dupont, producer of the GDP Project, an effort to document the economic crisis in Canada. Funded by the National Film Board,…
April 9, 2010
Andrea Pitzer
Andreas Gefeller’s Supervisions: structure as story

Andreas Gefeller’s Supervisions: structure as story

[In our latest look at fine arts photographers who might have something to offer photojournalists, contributing editor Stephanie Mitchell considers the Supervisions project of Andreas Gefeller. Gefeller’s collapsed images and simultaneous…
March 26, 2010
Stephanie Mitchell
“Bottoming Out” from the Las Vegas Sun: citizen journalism folded into multimedia storytelling

“Bottoming Out” from the Las Vegas Sun: citizen journalism folded into multimedia storytelling

When Las Vegas Sun staffer Scott Den Herder saw Tony McDew at an area nightclub last year, he could tell by McDew’s “outrageous” 1980s outfit and high-top fade haircut that…
March 22, 2010
Andrea Pitzer
Duckrabbit's Benjamin Chesterton on the Blindfolded Photographer

Duckrabbit’s Benjamin Chesterton on the Blindfolded Photographer

[We recently met Benjamin Chesterton at the Frontline/ICP symposium, where he participated in a discussion on the future of visual narrative. He had some strong opinions about photojournalists and storytelling, and we thought our…
March 18, 2010
Benjamin Chesterton

Still images and storytelling in the digital era: more from the February Frontline/International Center of Photography symposium

[Second in a series of posts about a February meeting on the future of visual narrative sponsored by Frontline and the International Center of Photography.]With the decline of print newspapers, what will…
March 15, 2010
Andrea Pitzer

Who rubbed out Arthur Kasherman? Noir, the Star Tribune and a senior thesis combine for multimedia storytelling

A little shy of midnight on a January night in 1945, someone shot Minneapolis muckraker Arthur Kasherman as he sat with a friend in his Oldsmobile. Firing several more times,…
March 12, 2010
Andrea Pitzer
Frontline and the International Center of Photography look at news narratives for a digital era

Frontline and the International Center of Photography look at news narratives for a digital era

How will digital opportunities change the way we tell stories? Earlier this month in New York City, a roundtable of journalists from major media outlets and community-oriented news organizations met…
February 26, 2010
Andrea Pitzer
Paul Raeburn, Ira Glass, and just some of the ways a story can go wrong

Paul Raeburn, Ira Glass, and just some of the ways a story can go wrong

Yesterday, Paul Raeburn at the Knight Science Journalism Tracker took the stuffing out of a New York Times medical piece. The story, by Gardiner Harris, reveals a secret recording of…
February 24, 2010
Andrea Pitzer