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Digital storytelling Steve Buttry Everyday Health June 8, 2012

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Digital storytelling

Steve ButtryEveryday Health

June 8, 2012

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Read more• stevebuttry.wordpress.com• Slideshare.net/stevebuttry• [email protected]• @stevebuttry

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Ask about each story• What are potential multimedia elements of

your story?• How can you engage the community? • Can you tell the story live?• Can data provide depth, personal info?• What form will tell this story best?• What content should you curate?

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Multimedia elements• Photos (individual photos, galleries, time

lapse, audio slide shows, submitted, social, media, panoramic)

• Videos (raw, edited, in story, webcam, webcast, security cameras, user-submitted, social media, link to video)

• Animation (Flash, HTML5)• Audio (alone, w/ photos or videos)• Maps (database, interactive, story vehicle)

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Engage the community• Crowdsource (investigations, features, events)• Collaborate w/ or curate blogs• Conversation on Twitter, Facebook• Polls• Contests• Hashtags• Sharing tools, ratings• Ask for photos, videos

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Live reporting

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Databases• Help users personalize story• Answer questions• Provide depth• Provide detail• Interactive• Data visualization

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Alternate story form• List• Graphic novel• Timeline• Map• Graphic• Self-directed, not linear• Quiz

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What is curation?Museum curator:• Studies topic• Chooses relevant

content (other sources & museum collection)

• Authenticates• Groups related items• Provides context• Presents exhibit

Journalism curator:• Studies topic• Chooses relevant

content (social media, blogs, staff)

• Authenticates• Groups related items• Provides context• Presents collected

content

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NPR’s Andy Carvin

“I think curation has always been a part of journalism; we just didn't call it that.” – quoted in The Atlantic by Phoebe Connelly

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Why to liveblog• Immediacy• News value• Storytelling• Traffic• Community engagement, loyalty • Interactivity• Saving time

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Liveblogging tips• Short, frequent takes• Don’t transcribe; observe & report• Liveblog becomes notebook for story (or

becomes the story)• Consider links, polls, photos, audio, video• Tweet links to liveblog & replay• OK to step away for question, video, etc.

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Gathering content• Reporting notes• Shoot video• Shoot photos• Record audio• Acquire video, audio• Acquire database• Scrape data

• Web search• Social search (can

localize)• Blog search• Archival search• Invite submissions• What else?

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Presenting story• Text• Video• Slideshow• Photo gallery• Animation• Map(s)

• Timeline• Graphic• Embed(s)• Combination• What else?

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Storytelling exercise• What are the elements used?• How was content gathered?• How was the story presented?• What skills were needed?• What could make the story better?• How might you use these tools,

techniques on an upcoming story?

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Some storytelling tools

• Storify (curate social & Web content)• Intersect (time & place)• Maps (Google & Crowdmap)• Timelines (Timetoast & Dipity)• Visual.ly & Dataviz• What else?

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Follow up• Send links of your digital stories to: [email protected]• These tips, tools & examples:

stevebuttry.wordpress.com• slideshare.net/stevebuttry• @stevebuttry