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Eddie Rehfeldt: "Breaking News: the search for a better narrative format for the internet is now available. Ben Decker once said “the internet is not just another TV pipe” and this was made apparent at SXSWi in Austin last week."
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This article contains a great list of links to narrative content which has been "made for engaged impact" and will be of interest to all digital storytellers. 
Dr. Pamela Rutledge's curator insight,
March 29, 2:16 AM
The lines at SxSW definitely tell the story: this isn't just the year of the story, it's the decade of coordinated, additive and interactive storytelling across multiple media channels for everything from entertainment and branding to education and journalism. It all starts with the story.
cyneth's curator insight,
April 2, 7:47 PM
Create compelling content for multiple devices, immersive web-based experiences from data driven stories (infographics on visual video steroids) to interactive tablet documentaries. Eddie Rehfeldts report from SXSW - "There are mind-bending interactive story approaches available right now." 
Yael BOUBLIL's curator insight,
April 7, 5:08 PM
Apprendre à raconter avec les spécificités du transmédia ... Delete the scoop?
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Kevin Moloney: "Transmedia journalism is designing a project to unfold across multiple media in an expansive rather than repetitive way" ... Delete the scoop?
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Susan Currie Sivek: "At the AEJMC conference this summer, Google News head Richard Gingras called for journalism educators to think beyond today's standard news site architecture and story structures and to teach journalism students the tools of computer science and product design" ... Delete the scoop?
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Eva Domínguez: "Two Pulitzer Prizewinners are preparing a game in order to make the world aware of the conditions of inequality in which women and children are suffering in many parts of the world. It will be released in the autumn and it’s another example of the use of ludic strategies in journalism, a tendency known as newsgaming" ... Via siobhan-o-flynn Delete the scoop?
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David Holmes: "A computer that can write like a human is a neat trick. But Moxie Awards finalist Narrative Science is taking the role of the robot journalist to the next level"... Delete the scoop?
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Paige Williams: "It’s been a little over a year since The Atavist debuted as a groundbreaking digital platform for long-form multimedia storytelling"... Delete the scoop?
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A reporter walks into a marketing agency and a “branded journalist” is born. Biserka Anderson: The bottom line is that to stand out in the glut of online voices, a branded newsroom needs to meet three conditions: It has to be open, transparent and rigorous; it has to adhere to journalistic values; and it has to embrace technological innovation [...] Delete the scoop?
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"Basetrack, a social media reporting project that accompanied a marine battalion on a deployment in Afghanistan, will be adapted into a series of theater performances [...] at Juilliard in New York." For more on this interesting multiplatform project read Bringing the war in Afghanistan home, by iPhone. Delete the scoop?
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Peter Usagi looks at Storify and Diigo as tools for transmedia journalism. And, as added interest, he shares his storified notes from "The Story of a Transmedia Revolution". These are great notes!
["The Story of a Transmedia Revolution" can be found @scoopit http://bit.ly/xojQbz (part one) & @scoopit http://bit.ly/yBOSVl (part two) ] Delete the scoop?
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Whenever people talk about games as a potential journalistic device, there is a reaction against the idea of 'play' as a method for communicating 'serious'... Delete the scoop?
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Imagine you're at a food bank outside the First Unitarian Church in Los Angeles. It's a clear and hot Saturday in August.
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Now, a new tablet application is allowing photographers to shoot 180 degrees frameless stories straight from the frontline. “Condition ONE will let people witness a story first-hand like never before,” promises its creator, American photojournalist and filmmaker Danfung Dennis. Via Gregg Morris Delete the scoop?
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The film about the hunt for Osama bin Laden mixes entertainment and reporting.
The Digital Rocking Chair's insight:
An interesting look at the storytelling genesis of Zero Dark Thirty. Does it represent a new genre, the "reported film"? 
Palabras digitales's curator insight,
December 14, 2012 11:49 AM
El problema con este tipo de películas es que les cuesta mucho ser aceptadas debido a su alto contenido político. Es una forma originalde realización, pero tiene problemas a la hora de mantenerse en un terreno neutral. Delete the scoop?
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Jeff Bercovici: "If there was still any debate about whether serious photojournalism can take place in the context of camera phones and cutesy retro filters, it’s over now" ... Delete the scoop?
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Mona Zhang: "The latest cover of National Geographic features the story of the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, home to the Oglala Lakota" ... DRC: This article looks at the storytelling platform Cowbird and how it's being utilized by the Lakota to tell their own stories. Delete the scoop?
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Kevin Moloney: "For journalists (like me) journalism is a religion too. Like other religions it has a long history, dogma, ritual, and a well-formed system of ethics that helps us structure what we say and how we act" ... Delete the scoop?
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Natan Edelsburg: "The role TV played in Rather’s reporting from interviewing Martin Luther King Jr. to endless presidents paints a clear picture of how TV became the mass medium it is today that complements the social web" ... Delete the scoop?
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Lenika Cruz: "This project, still in its nascent stages, aims to bring attention to Southern California's cultural and artistic scene across 11 counties, providing in-depth criticism and analysis and by taking a "transmedia" approach, incorporating multiple platforms like video and photography in the telling of a single story." Delete the scoop?
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"An anonymous undercover reporter for Al Jazeera has captured the Syrian uprising in a first-of-its-kind-documentary — recorded on an iPhone." Delete the scoop?
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Transmedia journalism does require more advance planning than other kinds of coverage. Decisions need to be made on questions like what the keystone medium will be, how will the story expand (not repeat) through other media, and what subset stories lend themselves to a particular medium. Our constraints of space and possibility are gone... Delete the scoop?
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These building blocks separate video from other storytelling formats, and the more you’re aware of them, the more efficiently you can create videos that have an impact...
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First, a transmedia approach to journalism would require that it be designed as transmedia from the start. Editors must consider what media are available to them and how the individual strengths of those media can be used to the story’s advantage...
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One of the most talked-about--and harrowing--Sundance films wasn’t a film in the traditional sense. Hunger In L.A., which screened at the New Frontier Pavilion, is an interactive experience that puts participants in the middle of a shocking food line incident. Delete the scoop?
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Photography first, and now 360-degree video have served to experiment with spatial immersion in digital journalism in order to give the spectators the option to see the scene as it revolves around them, in any direction. Delete the scoop?
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Yep, I can definitely relate to the disappointments expressed in this article. (LOL)