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Online narratives

Online narratives. Izak Minnaar Power Reporting, October 2012. Definitions. Chip Scanlan ( Chip on your shoulder ), Poynter Institute:

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Online narratives

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  1. Online narratives Izak Minnaar Power Reporting, October 2012

  2. Definitions • Chip Scanlan (Chip on your shoulder), Poynter Institute: • “A story that features characters rather than sources; communicates experience through the five senses and a few others: a sense of people, sense of place, sense of time, and, most important, a sense of drama; has a beginning that grabs a reader's attention; a middle that keeps the reader engaged, and an ending that lingers in the reader's mind like the reverberations of a gong.” • And another 60 in this article Online narratives – Izak Minnaar – Wits Power Reporting, October 2012

  3. Narrative journalism online • Traditional media: classics published online – print, radio, TV • Multiplatform productions • Often traditional media first, then reworked for the web • Planned from the start multimedia treatment • Digital only or digital first Online narratives – Izak Minnaar – Wits Power Reporting , October 2012

  4. New reportage patterns • Live reporting: eyewitness reports from the scene; live tweeting, live blogging • Conventional reporting after the event • Longform narratives after a time lapse • Benton Curve of Interestingness • “Benton's thesis goes like this: Eyewitness reporting rendered in real time … represents an interesting and worthy kissing cousin to long-form narrative journalism.” – Roy Peter Clark Online narratives – Izak Minnaar – Wits Power Reporting, October 2012

  5. Online narratives – Izak Minnaar – Wits Power Reporting, October 2012

  6. Narrative journalism in the age of the internet – Nora Berning (article) What sets online literary reportages apart from literary journalism in print is that the journalist who performs the double role of communicator and narrator can give shape to the information in a way that the print version does not allow. Berning then quotes Mark Bowden (Black Hawk Down and The Desert One Debacle): Online narratives – Izak Minnaar – Wits Power Reporting , October 2012

  7. Narrative journalism in the age of the internet – Nora Berning (article) • Bowden: “I think the online presentation is a lot richer than the written text. The reader … well, we should probably say the reader/the viewer/the listener … can delve as deeply into the material as he wishes. On the Internet, the writer can provide a new service to the readers. They can make sense of the writer’s material themselves, digest the sources, and draw their own conclusions.” Online narratives – Izak Minnaar – Wits Power Reporting , October 2012

  8. Story examples • Serial narratives • Black hawk down • Blackwater: Inside America's Private Army • A mother, a daughter, a murder • Despatchonline: Slumlords • Gay girl in Damascus – Andy Carvin and how the story unfolded across media platforms • ProPublica: the US foreclosure crisis Online narratives – Izak Minnaar – Wits Power Reporting, October 2012

  9. Narrative journalism on the web Nieman notable narratives Narrative Interactive narratives Pulitzer Prize winners Video stories: MediaStorm Online narratives – Izak Minnaar – Wits Power Reporting , October 2012

  10. Finding and tracking stories • Online tools to track “long-form journalism” • Save web pages for later: • Read it Later/Pocket • Instapaper • Longform.org – collecting long-form journalism from long before the internet • Byliner – daily good reads • @longreads on Twitter Online narratives – Izak Minnaar – Wits Power Reporting , October 2012

  11. What does the future hold? • Digital publication of narrative/longform multimedia storytelling • Mampoer • Atavist • Investigative interactive comics journalism Online narratives – Izak Minnaar – Wits Power Reporting , October 2012

  12. What does the future hold? • Immersive journalism • The use of virtual reality and 3-D environments to convey “first-person” experiences of the sights, sounds and feelings of news • Nonny de la Peña: Gone Gitmo set inside a virtual Guantanamo Bay prison and built in Second Life Online narratives – Izak Minnaar – Wits Power Reporting , October 2012

  13. izak.minnaar@gmail.com Thank you! Online narratives – Izak Minnaar – Wits Power Reporting, October 2012

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