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Make visuals meaningful. Visual elements, such as photos, infographics, timelines, video and games have the potential to immerse users into geographies other than their own. Data become tangible. Stories become personal. -
In the eye-tracking study, video was either first or second in the number and duration of fixations in each long-form project with video. In post-session interviews, however, participants had the most praise for photographs over all other elements. -
With the tagline “There’s an app for that,” Apple ushered in the Age of the App with its iPhone 3G commercial in 2009. More recently, news organizations have started to develop more complex applications, integrating them within news stories. -
Previous studies have found that millennials are readers. Our study confirms that finding, and delves further into what they expect from reading. -
Since the late 1990s, as breaking news and other types of journalism adapted, long feature stories remained best suited for print. Then, in 2012, The New York Times published “Snow Fall: The Avalanche at Tunnel Creek,” a 17,000–word narrative. -
In the Age of the App, when does it makes sense for news organizations to invest limited resources into creating applications, and if so, when does it pay off? -
The prototyping these students are doing is a pilot for part of a research project led by three Research Scholars at the Donald W. Reynolds Journalism Institute at the University of Missouri. -
Can long-form journalism, a genre home for explanatory and literary forms, make a comeback in a digital age? The short answer: Yes, but some things need to change. -
As 2015-2016 RJI Research Scholars, we’re exploring audience reactions to long-form multimedia journalism, such as The Guardian’s Firestorm and The Verge’s examination of an intriguing solution to meat addiction. -
Three academicians — Robert Gutsche Jr., Susan Jacobson and Jacqueline Marino — will study the effectiveness and sustainability of long-form digital journalism on behalf of RJI. The three are the newest RJI Research Scholars.
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