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If you liked the centralized approach to presenting disparate sources via google’s living stories engine test yesterday, but thought it lacked a narrative element to keep your interest buoyant against the tides of fast-aggregating real-time news feed, then I’ve got just the antidote, albeit one that’s not very current. Below is a phenomenal piece of multimedia journalism, housing photos, testimonies, vivid characterization and storytelling in the same site. As if that wasn’t enough, it’s all interactive. Here it is, an interactive photo essay by the French photojournalist Gilles Peress, documenting the last weeks of the siege of Sarajevo in February and March, including the exodus of Serbs from the suburbs from which the siege had been mounted. It’s a meticulously documented narrative, so take your time to wade through it – sadly we’ve missed the window mentioned here to join the online debate about the topic (only by 16 odd years), but it stands as a innovative approach to fostering debate between readers and journalists.
For more of a one-shot visual approach to interactivity, check out this interactive map of global corruption in the public sector. The darker the blue, the more corrupt the country. Any guesses for the most corrupt, before you sneak a peak? Leave your answer as a comment. Speaking of comments, I’ve also just finished the final translation for the Honduran comic into spanish, and posted it as a word doc in the Honduras page, here. If you’ve got a good level of english/spanish translation skill, then please have a look and leave me a comment with any suggestions or changes. Gracias!
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