presented at the frayintermedia narrative journalism conference – johannesburg, south africa –...
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Presented at the frayintermedia Narrative Journalism conference – Johannesburg, South Africa – 21 May 2008
Online resources for narrative journalism
Izak Minnaar
May 2008
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Online resources for narrative journalism – by Izak Minnaar – frayintermedia Narrative Journalism conference – Johannesburg, South Africa – 21 May 2008
Session brief: An exploration of web based content and
tools to facilitate narrative reportage – including examples of narrative serials, inspiration from blogs and social networking sites, and other web features to help with storytelling
Online resources for narrative journalism – by Izak Minnaar – frayintermedia Narrative Journalism conference – Johannesburg, South Africa – 21 May 2008
Introduction Use online resources for
Self education Finding examples Research on topics Tapping into networks Tools of the trade Experimenting
Online resources for narrative journalism – by Izak Minnaar – frayintermedia Narrative Journalism conference – Johannesburg, South Africa – 21 May 2008
Definitions What is narrative? – Mark Kramer,
founding director of the Nieman Program on Narrative Journalism
More on the Nieman Narrative Digest Lexicon for narrative journalism Essays on the craft
Online resources for narrative journalism – by Izak Minnaar – frayintermedia Narrative Journalism conference – Johannesburg, South Africa – 21 May 2008
Definitions Chip Scanlan (Chip on your shoulder), Poynter
Institute: “A story that features characters rather than sources;
communicates experience through the five senses and a few others: a sense of people, sense of place, sense of time, and, most important, a sense of drama; has a beginning that grabs a reader's attention; a middle that keeps the reader engaged, and an ending that lingers in the reader's mind like the reverberations of a gong.”
And another 60 in this article and in parts 1 and 2 Narrative journalism and subjectivity - essay
Online resources for narrative journalism – by Izak Minnaar – frayintermedia Narrative Journalism conference – Johannesburg, South Africa – 21 May 2008
Stories Notable narratives - Nieman Narrative Digest Interactive narratives Flash stories Stories in sound, word, vision More multimedia stories Pulitzer Prize winners More examples on SIXBILLION, the online
magazine for narrative journalism
Online resources for narrative journalism – by Izak Minnaar – frayintermedia Narrative Journalism conference – Johannesburg, South Africa – 21 May 2008
Stories Serial narratives
Black hawk down The terrorist within – the story behind one man’s
holy war against America Blackwater: Inside America's Private Army The crossing Blood brothers A mother, a daughter, a murder A nearly perfect summer
Online resources for narrative journalism – by Izak Minnaar – frayintermedia Narrative Journalism conference – Johannesburg, South Africa – 21 May 2008
Multimedia Institute for New Media Studies: The
elements of digital storytelling Kim Pearson’s article on combining video
game technology and narrative theory to create multimedia story forms Pearson’s blog with lab notes on the Nancybelle
Valentine story – a research project on multi-threaded and interactive storytelling
And the story script prototype spreadsheet
Online resources for narrative journalism – by Izak Minnaar – frayintermedia Narrative Journalism conference – Johannesburg, South Africa – 21 May 2008
Multimedia Read more about
The foundations of interactive storytelling Metalinear narrative - related story pieces designed
to be arranged in many different ways, to tell many different linear stories from different points of view
Storyspace software – a hypertext writing environment. Gloria Stern explains how it works
Soundslides, a audio/multimedia slide show authoring application for journalists & review
Online resources for narrative journalism – by Izak Minnaar – frayintermedia Narrative Journalism conference – Johannesburg, South Africa – 21 May 2008
Blogs “I'll stretch the definition and say that a blog is a kind of a
serial narrative. It's the story, if you will, of a writer's ideas, and the reactions of his or her audience. If it's good, it has a kind of voice, a set of familiar characters, some action moving forward, occasional suspense, a few recurring themes.”
“The serial narrative is a special literary form with special advantages and requirements. Not every writer can pull one off. And not every good story lends itself to serial narration. But when everything clicks, when the writer finds a compelling story and a golden source; when cliffhangers abound; when character is revealed through scene and action; when quotes are replaced by dialogue -- nothing quite matches the intensity of readership…”
Extract from Poynter’s Writing Tools: Roy Peter Clark
Online resources for narrative journalism – by Izak Minnaar – frayintermedia Narrative Journalism conference – Johannesburg, South Africa – 21 May 2008
Blogs Benton Curve of Interestingness
“We've seen in the 20th century the professionalization of journalism, only to see in this century the re-emergence of the amateur eyewitness, who uses everything from cell phone images to instant messaging to real-time blogging to get the word out.”
“Benton's thesis goes like this: Eyewitness reporting rendered in real time via the blog represents an interesting and worthy kissing cousin to long-form narrative journalism.”
Read more here and here
Online resources for narrative journalism – by Izak Minnaar – frayintermedia Narrative Journalism conference – Johannesburg, South Africa – 21 May 2008
Online resources for narrative journalism – by Izak Minnaar – frayintermedia Narrative Journalism conference – Johannesburg, South Africa – 21 May 2008
Blogs & posts The Hinterlands – “a narrative non-fiction
blog” by Caroline Kettlewell Loose Leaf: Notes from a Writer’s Journal –
Colleen Redman: Blogging brings out my nutty professor side and appeals to the
record keeper in me. I consider my blog to be my writer’s petire dish, my lab where new work is developed and sometimes launched from. It’s also a day-to-day interactive journal that has allowed me to meet and form meaningful friendships with
readers and other bloggers from all over the world.
Online resources for narrative journalism – by Izak Minnaar – frayintermedia Narrative Journalism conference – Johannesburg, South Africa – 21 May 2008
Web2.0 & online research Google definitions for “narrative” Wikipedia on narrative journalism Narrative journalism links on delicious Narrative journalism on YouTube Narrative journalism on Slideshare Read the latest news on narrative
journalism (via RSS feed)
Online resources for narrative journalism – by Izak Minnaar – frayintermedia Narrative Journalism conference – Johannesburg, South Africa – 21 May 2008
Research tools How to use RSS and social media for
newsgathering How to use
Google notebook for online research – and a step-by-step guide
Online resources for narrative journalism – by Izak Minnaar – frayintermedia Narrative Journalism conference – Johannesburg, South Africa – 21 May 2008
Other resources Narrative journalism quick overview poster WriterL – a private, subscription-only listserve
community of narrative non-fiction writers Creating the Serial Narrative: A Starter Kit - A serial
guide to writing a serial narrative, by Roy Peter Clarke, Poynter Institute
Tips of the trade: Ten hurdles to narrative journalism – Bob Baker’s Newsthinking
Online resources for narrative journalism – by Izak Minnaar – frayintermedia Narrative Journalism conference – Johannesburg, South Africa – 21 May 2008
Other resources Center for digital storytelling and the Digital
storytelling cookbook – and OJR article on the center
Journalism 2.0 – tools and techniques for social networking, information sharing, online collaboration and multimedia production
Online resources for narrative journalism – by Izak Minnaar – frayintermedia Narrative Journalism conference – Johannesburg, South Africa – 21 May 2008
Questions and discussion
Online resources for narrative journalism – by Izak Minnaar – frayintermedia Narrative Journalism conference – Johannesburg, South Africa – 21 May 2008
Izak Minnaar is a journalist and editorial manager, specialising in news research and information management in newsrooms. He is currently Head of News Research at the SABC.
The Research unit uses computer-aided journalism (CAJ) techniques and tools to gather information and to publish a news intranet featuring research material and other information resources. This service is used by SABC radio and TV news and current affairs programmes as well as new media services for editorial coverage planning and programme production.
Before establishing the News Research unit 10 years ago, Izak worked for print media, moved to television news and magazine programmes, was involved in setting up the SABC’s first online news service in 1999 and coordinated several special broadcast projects, including election coverage and high profile multilateral conferences taking place in South Africa.
Izak regularly presents courses in computer aided journalism covering issues such as online research, new media and information management for journalists in the newsroom.