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Panel discussion on 'Innovations in Storytelling'
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Shreeja Bhattacharya
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Hello and welcome to our panel discussion of 'Innovations in Storytelling' featuring Elise Hu, technology and culture reporter at NPR; Kara Oehler, co-founder and editor-in-chief of Zeega; and Joe Saxton, senior editor at ProPublica. Moderated by Dorothy Wickenden, NF'89, executive editor of The New Yorker, and introduced by Tim Golden NF'96.
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Jo Saxton talks about about how his mother and him had issues. He says “I can explain a little bit about how snowfall happens”, he adds “we thought we could do something quite different.”
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Jo Saxton mentions that they love TikToks and that he uses TikTok in an extraordinary manner.
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Dorothy, the moderator for the evening, asks Saxton about how one can avoid people being distracted by everything that is on the internet. Saxton replies that we must at all times give people something different- “we took six months for it.”
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Elise Hu the creator of Texus Studio says they read a lot but prefer watching videos considering the fact that videos help in giving a viewer some real time context, unlike in text.
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Talking about her Studio, Elise mentions “here one can be ruthless, risk taking. Pop up politics is different, here we have opportunities to take risk.”
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“Newspaper production is kind of a 'factory-type of production' but what we also need is 'lab type production' promoting research and innovation” says Elise Hu.
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Upon being asked how Douglas McGray’s ‘Pop-Up Magazine’ is different he answers saying that with each issue they try to find different media. What that means is that they get radio people to produce audios sometimes which they later transform into a show. The whole motto being to bring something out of the box.
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Douglas McGray tells the audience “We try and show stories to people in the same way people see movies in theatre”
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Giving an example of how photos can be used to tell a story, Douglas says it was really vivid, hearing the voice, seeing the image, having this all combined is magical
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In the beginning we thought about should we record or film or not, because who is the audience watching this?
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Is it gonna be a good experience or not? Douglas added. So we thought what would it mean to not record it. A big part of what we wanted to do is to make it something people go after dinner, insert it in popular culture.
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"This is the thing about recorded film. Our only focus is the audience watching then and there and to emphasis the sense of specialness. People should want to come and see our creation" said Douglas.
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Kara Oehler, co-founder and editor-in-chief of Zeega points out how overtime clips are now becoming shorter, citing the example of GIFs.
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People have the history of media in their shows. They use shorter clips like animated gifs. It was from there that we got the idea of starting Ziga says Kara.
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Kara adds, we have a collaboration with 'nervous news' with a focus on how to make news which people can see on their phones.
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A lot of people get news through social media, This was modeled after npr, which is basically the newscast she says.
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Kara explains that there is a software to make Zeega, which is Flickr, Tumblr and informs the audience about the collection of animated gifs in Zeega that they will find on the platform.
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Dorothy asks, What does it have to do with journalism? To which Elise replies, “I think we have a lot of beautiful Zeega being made. We can make videos about what was even happening in 1963 The world is allowing us to take stories different shapes, forms. It's hard to explain without showing, it's basically showing the stories in a different way , Zeega and Twitter did that.
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That wraps up the discussion. Thank you so much for being with us, for more content please subscribe to #ACJLive.
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