3. ASM uses geo-tags via Google Maps, allowing editors to share stories broadly by region or state or create collections to bundle to regional editors. While stories are released to partners via their wire services, Bundles allow stories to be re-pitched at a later time, as News21 stories are timeless features that deserve consideration long after they move on the wires.
4. Explore and Explore & Compare Pages ASM delivers elements to the Innovation blog, where tagging for “Explore” allows for a collection of stories worthy of study but not published by partners. When a story is used by a partner, the headline is adjusted and screengrabs inserted for side-by-side comparison and to encourage discussion on presentation.
5. Awesome Power & Potential of Database Publishing * Bio pages * School pages * Various collections of stories by theme * Target news editors by topic or region * Mobile devices * Transparency explanations * Automated Archives * Flexibility for Next-Gen Tools AMS allows for all of the below pages and elements to be created or generated more easily.
6. News21 administrators can bundle stories, allowing specific collections to be directed to editors. 2011 Topics: Food Safety | Money & Politics | Elderly | Food & Health | Energy | Census
7. This collection is of Maryland’s content, of possible interest to editors around the Bay area. An editor enticed to a story can see the summary and related assets (as icons) and click through to access the text and photos for use under Creative Commons.
8. A view of ASM, where students would create assets. The “About the Reporting Process” field is delivered dynamically into the story’s related “Explore” Wordpress page. 2011 Topics: Food Safety | Money & Politics | Elderly | Food & Health | Energy | Census
9. Elements able to assemble on the E&C pages, via JSON calls to ASM, include details about the project, available code, links to partners who used the content, awards and the reporters’ bio.
10. Link to Explore & Compare A link to the Explore pages allows the reader to learn more about how the journalism was conducted without having to update the eight News21 sites after the students’ 10-week fellowship ends.