MediaShift Innovation Spotlight

Washington Post's 'Web Ninjas' Build Map-Timeline Combo

by Megan Taylor

TimeSpace, a Washington Post project, is a coverage mapping framework that displays content from multiple sources in space (via a map) and time (via a timeline). A display map, covering anything from a single city block to the world, is tagged to show viewers where news is being covered. Viewers can also view the news map as it appeared at different points over the preceding hours or days, giving them a picture of how the news events unfolded over time.

• February 16, 2009
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MediaShift Innovation Spotlight

Innovation in Inauguration Coverage

by Megan Taylor

This week, instead of focusing on one innovative journalism project, I'd like to highlight some of the many projects that came up covering Barack Obama's inauguration. The first question I asked myself as I started collecting links was, "Well, this is a cool way to cover the event, but is it journalism? For example, I saw a lot of "official"...

• January 20, 2009
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