
Dan Archer
2014-2015 Reynolds Fellow
Residential fellow
Reynolds Journalism Institute
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Website: http://www.empatheticmedia.com/
Telephone: 650-714-6664
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Group Title: Content providers
Join Date: June 15, 2015
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Last Visit: December 31, 1969
Last Activity: December 31, 1969
Total Entries: 4
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About Dan Archer
Dan Archer is a graphic journalist who uses comics and immersive storytelling to report on human rights issues in situations where video or photographic equipment is inappropriate or, at worst, traumatic for those involved.
Archer was a 2014-2015 RJI Fellow and a 2011 Knight Journalism Fellow at Stanford University, where he also taught nonfiction graphic novel writing from 2008 to 2014. His current work explores the crossover of interactive comics with transmedia storytelling and virtual reality. One example was the virtual reality reconstruction of the Michael Brown shooting that occurred in Ferguson, Missouri in August 2014. His work has been published by the BBC, CBC, Vice magazine, Fusion, San Francisco Public Press, American Public Media, Truthout and PBS.
In addition to news outlets, his nonfiction comics have been translated into multiple languages and distributed by International Nongovernmental Organizations such as Save the Children, World Education and the International Organization for Migration, as well as featured in the State Department’s 2013 Trafficking in Persons report. His comics on human trafficking also form the core content of a pioneering study to measure the impact of visual media in low literacy areas of Nepal, co-sponsored by the State Department, Humanity United and Stanford and Vanderbilt universities.
Dan Archer is a graphic journalist who uses comics and immersive storytelling to report on human rights issues. He was a 2014-2015 RJI Fellow.
Stories about Dan Archer
Futures Lab Update
FL#148: Resources for virtual reality immersive storytelling
April 13, 2016Alphabet-soup roundup of fall industry events, part one
October 20, 2015RJI in the news
Will Virtual Reality bring us closer to the story?
October 1, 2015The Bright Line
An ethical reality check for virtual reality journalism
September 2, 2015Dissecting Engagement
Ferguson panel Q&A
April 7, 2015Dissecting Engagement
Dan Archer, Empathetic Media: Ferguson: Testing engagement amidst heightened consumption
April 7, 2015Transmedia storytelling comes to True/False Film Fest
March 5, 2015Futures Lab Update
Futures Lab update #92: Ideas for visualizing the news
February 4, 2015RJI in the news
Virtual re-creation of Ferguson shooting lets you see the scene from witnesses’ perspectives
December 18, 2014RJI in the news
Journalist-cartoonist Dan Archer renders possibilities for digital journalism
December 10, 2014The future is now
December 1, 2014What’s hot (or not) from ONA 14
October 6, 2014Transforming the Comics Section: Dan Archer Illustrates the News
September 1, 2014RJI announces 2014-2015 Reynolds Fellows
May 15, 2014
Dan Archer's fellowship project
Dan Archer of Aptos, California explored transmedia storytelling (publishing different parts of news stories across multiple digital platforms) through the creation of a visual news consultancy, Empathetic Media, that will provide production services to newsrooms without the in-house expertise or budget to do so for themselves. Platforms included the Oculus Rift virtual reality headset and Unity game engine (for VR and web apps), as well as interactive webdocs, multimedia graphic journalism pieces and data visualizations produced in HTML5.
During his fellowship, Archer created a virtual, interactive re-creation of the scene where Michael Brown was fatally shot in Ferguson, Missouri in August 2014. The piece, which is hosted on Fusion’s website, is made up of a series of web comics and 3-D simulations.
Dan Archer fellowship project 2014–2016
September 1, 2014
How can journalists use virtual reality to tell news stories?
September 10, 2015Empathetic Media debuts Ferguson VR at ONA14
October 27, 2014