Visit Pluto in VR
Check out Pluto with this new 360/Google Cardboard VR video from The New York Times. They used data from NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft that passed the planet last summer. This is exactly what VR should be used for: to transport viewers to a place they can never...
The nine Google Cardboard virtual-reality journalism ‘experiences’
Google Cardboard is cheap and, relatively, easy virtual reality. With all the talk about the intersection of VR and journalism, at the moment there are only nine Google cardboard journalism pieces. The rest are games, sponsored content, travel, tours or art....
The Art of the Tough Interview
This new article in CJR by Gerald Eskenazi on the fine art of reading the moment and asking the right question in an interview starts with Donald Trump and ends with Muhammad Ali. Never thought I'd see those two names in print together. But Eskenazi has the skill to...
How They Did It Part I & II
A super interesting and useful post from Journalism Tools on Medium that not only lists 22 online storytelling tools but also shows relevant news examples of each tool from various media organisations. Excellent examples of programming and journalism coming together...
Drone journalism up and flying; Kathmandu’s latest footage
By Robin Ewing This drone footage of Kathmandu does an incredible job of showing the scale of damage done by Saturday's earthquake in Nepal. The only other way to get these kinds of images would be to hire a helicopter. Drone journalism is up and...
The gray zone of plagiarism
by Robin Ewing The Columbia Journalism Review this week published a thoughtful article on plagiarism and the trickiness of defining it in a digital world where "all ideas are secondhand, consciously and unconsciously drawn from a million outside sources." (That quote...
Virtual reality race has journalists producing content before we even get the technology
By Robin Ewing Nonny de la Peña screened her immersive journalism project, called Project Syria, at Sundance Film Festival last month. Users wear a virtual-reality headset to experience a street bomb in 3D, the visuals meticulously recreated from a video of a real...
Rise of the (journalist) robots
By Robin Ewing In the last three months, Apple made US$18 billion and news agency Associated Press produced 3,000 stories written by a computer program. One of these was the report about Apple's billions, published minutes after the quarterly earnings were released....
The message is Medium
Medium, a blog-publishing platform, has been called (by others and by Medium itself) the "best writing tool on the web." Anyone can publish and it looks good; "elegant" is the word most often used. If you want to read something that clearly explains what Medium is,...
Slate’s list of the best 25 podcasts ever
Surprise hit Serial, with 1.2 million listeners per episode, has everyone talking about how podcasts are the new hot thing, despite having been around for 10 years (and radio dramas since the 1920s). In fact, podcasts apparently confuse so many people that Ira Glass...