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paneldiscussion on "Innovations in Storytelling", featuring Elise Hu
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Diya Kakkar
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Hello and welcome to a panel discussion on "Innovations in Storytelling", featuring Elise Hu, technology and culture reporter at NPR; Douglas McGray, editor-in-chief of Pop-Up Magazine; Kara Oehler, co-founder and editor-in-chief of Zeega, and Joe Sexton, 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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Dorothy Wikenton starts the discussion by saying," they are pleased to hear that Nancy Cain blend old forms of story telling and new forms of story telling."
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Joe Sexton points out that solid reporting has to come first initiated snowstorm.
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Joe says,"I can't remember a point in my 25 years career that someone told me of this majestic universe is a place which has no rules. I am so charmed that this is a perfect way to capture the institution which exists for a hundred years and it's the best way to understand this institution."
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Joe asks to create our own section and not to stick by rules. He also says one should do something different before presenting it on the web as somebody had done some integrated presentation on LSD on the web and that's how they got the idea of snowfall.
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Joe makes a jarring point by saying that people use TikToks and here you can do on hard materials like an avalanche.
Given the 17000 words to the newsdeck and the guy on the desk said that they were going to add a map with this.
Wikenton interrupts and says," the extra elements, listened to the interviews, but she did find herself distracted,how do you avoid those distractions,?"
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Dorthy asks that investigative journalism has bigger challenges and often investigative stories are straight forward.
Joe responds by saying that the challenge of investigative stories and to make them immersive is to go out and shoot the tragedy or action which happens but there are all sorts of powerful ways to showcase it. There are many animations for example a woman who was in a mentally challenged home and was raped and later gave birth to a baby.
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Dorothy talks about the NPR radio which has led the way for innovations and Elis Hu responds by saying “one thing that I came to NPR thinking about this notion was, they were looking for someone who was start-up minded.The idea for this was inspired by VH-1. This was compelling for me because I covered Texas politics. We are still working on how to get the lab and factory side to melt together.”
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Dorothy also says about Douglas that how everything you are doing is Evanescent, limited audience, and you claim to have brought together and something news Pop magazine.
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Douglas tells that he was writing serious stories, doing radio and it was eye opening as it was more flexible. He goes on to say about the idea of a live magazine, you can have writers, radio people, if you had drinks afterwards people will hang out.
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Douglas tells that he wanted to do a work on a piece of work written about the photographers and It was a handwritten letter, but to convert that was a challenge. It's unpredictable, how people can't expect what's coming next so they sent a photography teacher and ask the inmate to read the letter aloud. The inmate was reading about loneliness and people heard the voice of disconnected from all the people and that experience can be pretty cerebral.
He added, "There is something magical about it."
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Dorothy then intervenes to ask,” how do you pass along, people who read the magazine and talk about it, people are out there all the time talking, thanks to the internet, does it not bother that your audience is limited?”
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Douglas counter questions by saying,” should we have record it or film? We try to not take decisions out of habit, is it a good experience or not, we've seen some terrible live streams, people would be willing to report and share pieces of the project, we wanted to take the idea and make something you do and know people who have gone to first dates to our show. It's different than other things, we only have to worry about the audience in front of us and reinforce the fact that no sacrifice exclusivity."
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Kara opens up about NPR and projects to tell that they started circling things on the map and drove through US and interviewed them and told people to give photos. It is creating a collaborative documentary.
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Kara elaborates more about Zeega and tells that Zeega allows people who don't have programming experience to take media from the web and your own media to create an experience of your own.
She further tells that they have collaborated with 'Now This News'.
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Why innovation needs storytelling?
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Elsie Hu mentions, "You could kind of experience all of web's possibility and what the web's capable of today the way the news happened in 1963." Dorothy asks what does it have to do with Journalism and Elsie tells that "we did that with a Zeega to make the news in march 1963 in Washington come more alive."
We also did that with twitter on an account called today in 1963, the idea is we are sort if freed now, the web is allowing us to let stories take any shape and form and text and touch, all these events of the past we can experience today."
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After this Dorothy asks Joe his opinion on what the newyorker is doing and Joe tells. "“For people who are in Journalism got to get over themselves. The hardest word in the English language is "yes" and I say yes to all of this and to say no to any of this seems fatally wrong."
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Dorothy remarks, “what younger readers want, do they definitely want something different.” Kara says that the way they consume is different than older readers, the way they read is different and when you read something on your cellphone you read it in a different way.
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"We're doing a lot of work to going to the platforms where there are readers and our expectations are that people want their 5 grams of news daily is silly," says Elisa.
Elisa further adds that it localises the experience.
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Where do teens spend more time on for consuming the news?
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Douglas adds by saying, “you can have a digital audience, and can have a live audience. A lot of media companies are thinking about engagement.”
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Joe talks about upwardness and says that ,"To look at one organisation in this case is upwardly. The whole idea of upwardly is taking one content push that on top of people's social feeds, for example, Facebook and twitter."
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"It's not a rocket science," Joe adds
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