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Digital Journalism sounds catchy. Visual Journalism sounds trendy, but Visual Journalism has been around since the days of Life Magazine. What’s different in 2013 are two strong influencers: technology, turning journalism into on on-demand, available everywhere/anytime experience, and social media, where the walls between the creators of journalism, the audience and even advertisers, has been broken.
With than in mind, it’s interesting to see how three giants of journalism in the US with international reach are looking at digital design of what they are calling “long-form” content.
It would seem they are all focused, in this discussion, on design for the web, or, more specifically, content to be delivered in digital format on a device, be it desktop, laptop or even hand-held.
This article touches upon elements of User experience design (“It’s important to let readers know where they are”) and User Interface design (the use of templates to give consistency to the experience from a particular outlet).
One interesting point of conversation is the journalism team: there seems to be a drive to making teams smaller, more for efficiency than economy’s sake. I would venture to say that, again, using social media for sourcing and both inexpensive yet high-quality technology available, it’s possible to do more with less.
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