Digital tools for today’s and tomorrow’s journalists

Tools for today’s and

tomorrow’s journalists
Steve Outing

Media futurist, Digital-news innovator | steveouting@gmail.com

http://mediadisruptus.com

Spring 2013: Innovative Digital Storytelling for News

“Since graduating, I've found that
everything we learned during the
independent study has had really
great traction from online editors.

!
“At Outside, I try to work in
things like ThingLink and
Google Fusion Tables into our
daily news posts. A couple
weeks ago I made an interactive
online map of Bigfoot sightings
with Fusion Tables.”

- Stephen Kasica

Steve Outing (media futurist, digital-news innovator) • http://mediadisruptus.com • steveouting@gmail.com

Spring 2013: Innovative Digital Storytelling for News
When a new tool or app
appears, its journalistic
applications might not be
immediately apparent…

E.g.,Vine app: 6-second looping
video. … How about coverage
of a fashion show?


Useful new tools debut regularly and often!

New Twitter Tool Finds
Hot Topics Before
They Trend


New ‘Secret’ app: Any news uses come to mind?


The facts of life: Journalism in 2014 and after

In your
media/news/advertising
career, you will
continually be learning
and using new tools that
do not exist yet

Familiar content-creation software still relevant, but…

Expensive

Time-consuming  
to learn

Difﬁcult to learn

In the past, mostly used
by newsroom experts
(Art, Photo, Video
departments)

Powerful tools!

Allow easy publishing
to web, mobile

Trend: Software tools going from desktop to cloud


Interactive images: Easy!


Tools to create interactive images

Embed e-commerce/

direct-purchase

links in photos


Tools for interactive panorama photos

Smartphone app (iOS, Android)

+ dozens of smartphone
and tablet apps to create
panoramas … many
allow embedding on web

Interactive video: Embed many forms 
of content on top of parts of video


Interactive video tool


NY Times’ ‘Snowfall’ was massive undertaking


Now, simple tool to create something similar


Curation tools and services

Automatically collects and combines your social

media posts into an embeddable content block


Storify: Free, widely used curation tool
Embed what you create on website ... Easily combine original and curated content

Multimedia, timelines, infographics, data visualization


Meograph: ‘4-dimensional’ storytelling tool
Combines maps, timeline, links, photos, video, audio into embeddable multimedia presentation;

new form of interactive story that can be watched (TV-like) or explored at user’s speed


Prezi: Not just for presentations ... Why not news?


Let’s not forget about hardware…

still

Drone with GoPro:

Only for hobby use currently
Narrative lifeblogging clip
camera: Takes photo every 30
seconds
LA Times photojournalist uses GoPro

for time-lapse at Oscars Red Carpet


What’s coming (not just Google Glass)
META augmented reality glasses: Available summer 2014 ($3,000)

(a la ‘Minority Report’ movie)


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