Alex Sanchez
Front End Developer for the Tampa Bay Times
Making the pieces
come together
Fojo #4
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The Long Fall of Phoebe Jonchuck
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tl;dr
After lifelong history of abuse, child neglect and mental illness, a man drops his 5-year-old daughter off the side of a bridge.
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No real number data; More of an immersive experience
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Things I knew
Was going to be long (10K+ words per chapter)
Told in 3 chapters
Discussion about rolling out over three days or all at once
Very dark
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Time to experiment!
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Think about your own behavior as a consumer of the internet and online journalism
You are your own focus group.
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Save my spot
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Automatic bookmarking?
Use cookies to automatically keep track of reader's paragraph as soon as they exit the page.
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Automatic bookmarking?
Use cookies to automatically keep track of reader's paragraph as soon as they exit the page.
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Chapter Delineations
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Black background
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Black background
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Gradient background
Gradient background
Once I had assets
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Digital strategy
Trailer pages
Inline Twitter "sharelines"
Reddit AMA with Lane DeGregory
Email to Tampa Bay Times subscribers
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Game Over
113K views
900-1200 concurrent viewers during first 2 weeks
Tweets specifically mentioning "Save My Spot" feature
Released on 1-year anniversary; dominated the market.
Responses from Fla. DCF
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Ok, but how do we make stuff like this?
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Knight Lab
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Look to other newspapers to see what kinds of things they've released as open source libraries:
NPR Viz team
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Try looking on Github
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Google APIs will give you access to many of the kinds of information you may need...FOR FREE
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http://tinyurl.com/gmewrxk
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Questions?
What kinds of problems have Swedish journalists experienced with the technical aspects of creating multimedia projects?
Fojo Media Institute: Making the Pieces Come Together
By Alex Sanchez
Fojo Media Institute: Making the Pieces Come Together
Getting projects done on deadline and some free tools that can help.
