Category: Behind the scenes
How The New York Times is tracking Covid-19 cases in the U.S.
The New York Times’ map of U.S. cases of Covid-19 is a living webpage that changes with the numbers and relies on a team of over 70 in-house and freelance […]
How The New York Times produced a visual explainer of the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus
The novel coronavirus is much more than a sphere wrapped in spike proteins. Back in April, The New York Times published a visual explainer of the proteins and genome of […]
How The New York Times visualized trends in white extremist attacks
In April 2019, The New York Times published an interactive article on white extremist killings from New Zealand to Norway to the United States. Using maps and a timeline to plot […]
How Gimlet’s Science Vs podcast produced a season on Covid-19
Science Vs host Wendy Zukerman begins every coronavirus episode with the reassurance that she’ll bring some clarity through science. In tackling Covid-19 for its eighth season, the popular science podcast […]
How Radiolab produced “Gonads,” a podcast series on human reproduction
Listening to Radiolab’s “Gonads” series is a lot like hearing a science documentary about human reproduction and having an epic narrative play out in your mind’s eye. The podcast series, […]
How Paraguay’s El Surti is adapting to the age of Covid-19, boosting its fact-checking on Whatsapp and launching a new podcast
Four years ago, Paraguayan media outlet El Surtidor — known as El Surti — was created to address deep-seated issues of media accessibility and information inequality in the country. The […]
How Núcleo Jornalismo is tracking Brazilian politicians on Twitter
Late last month, Brazil’s justice minister Sergio Moro resigned in protest after President Jair Bolsonaro fired his police chief. According to Moro, a prominent politician who may be seeking a […]
Behind the Sports Illustrated COVID-19 Issue
This story originally appeared on Game Plan, a publication exploring the future of sports journalism from Northeastern University’s School of Journalism. When NBA star Rudy Gobert announced he had contracted […]
How Tifo Football is making soccer analytics easier to digest
Soccer – or football, as most of the world calls it – is the most popular sport in the world. As in other major sports, advanced data analytics are being […]
How Reuters Visualized the Chilean Economic Crisis
Ally Levine has a firm grasp on what it takes to turn meaningful data into a compelling story. Having jump-started her journalistic career as an intern on the graphics team […]
How “The Cut On Tuesdays” Became a Successful Experiment in Audio
In December, The Cut on Tuesdays wrapped its final episode. The podcast was the first audio experiment of The Cut, a New York Media fashion and lifestyle publication, produced in […]
How the Pudding analyzed YouTube “vlogpologies”
What does a YouTuber do if they’re caught in a scandal? Usually, they’ll film themselves explaining that they’re sorry and how they intend to change, and then upload the apology […]
How ClaimReview is simplifying the process of fact-checking
One of the biggest challenges facing journalism today is the prominence and spread of unverified facts and misinformation. In an era marked by fake news, it has become increasingly difficult […]
The Atlantic Selects brings short docs to a wider audience
Branded as a “showcase of cinematic short documentary films,” The Atlantic Selects is a one-woman show run by film curator and journalist Emily Buder. The series, which currently consists of […]
How Vox visualized sea and land ice loss over the last decade
Last December, Vox published a piece that uses interactive images and charts to visualize the loss of sea and land ice over the last decade. The reporter, Umair Irfan, focuses […]
A look inside the Boston Globe’s immersive Cape Cod project
In late September, the Boston Globe published an in-depth report on how climate change is affecting Cape Cod. Nestor Ramos, the writer, said the intent of the article was to […]
How Vox explained China’s Belt and Road Initiative
China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) is an infrastructure and development plan that will connect China to the rest of the world — an attempted renaissance of the historic Silk […]
How the Wall Street Journal made the College Board’s adversity scores interactive
The world of higher education reporting got more than its share of news coverage in 2019. Actress Felicity Huffman was sentenced to two weeks in jail for paying Rick Singer, […]
How The New Yorker’s augmented reality feature gave voices to ordinary items
Augmented reality is set to transform media as we move into a more networked society. News organizations are continually shifting into digital formats where AR can enhance coverage and offers […]
How the Times’ Conor Dougherty tells the story of California’s trillion-dollar housing crisis
The San Francisco Bay Area is known for tech, liberalism, and now a raging crisis of homelessness. The housing crisis has reached an all-time high with more jobs flooding to […]
What the Covid-19 pandemic looks like through the lenses of 18 Latin American photographers
While the novel coronavirus outbreak has created uncertainty for many in the journalism industry, it has also created an opportunity to tell powerful stories about the effects of the pandemic. […]
The Guardian wants to know what global sustainability goals you would prioritize
In 2015, the United Nations released 17 sustainable development goals centered around people, prosperity and the planet. So far, 193 countries have committed to this transformation by 2030. Now 10 […]
How the Washington Post logs fatal police shootings in the U.S.
The Washington Post first began examining fatal police shootings in the United States in 2015. The newspaper’s investigation that uncovered that the FBI was undercounting half the number of fatal […]
Telling stories on Instagram: A Q&A with Neil Shea
Neil Shea, a contributing editor for The American Scholar and The Virginia Quarterly, is also a writer who has worked for National Geographic for more than 15 years, a role […]
Behind the scenes of the Vox web series “Borders”
Filmmaker and video journalist Johnny Harris travels the world to tell compelling and moving stories. Harris is based out of Washington, D.C., and works for Vox Media. His style combines […]
How the Wall Street Journal developed its make-your-own hedcut feature
As of December 2019, the Wall Street Journal has been offering all members the opportunity to create their own portrait “hedcut,” a drawing made of dots and hatched lines. At […]
The challenging — and delicious — adventures of producing the first America’s Test Kitchen podcast
Kaitlin Keleher, America’s Test Kitchen TV & podcast producer, believes the most powerful stories are the background tales about food: the discoveries, mysteries, history and everything that happened before any […]
How Northeastern’s Samuel Scarpino built a live map tracking the coronavirus outbreak
Samuel Scarpino, an assistant professor in Northeastern’s Network Science Institute, built a map that monitors the outbreak of the coronavirus. He has collaborated with many other scientists to track the […]
How The New York Times is visualizing the smartphone tracking industry
A phone application company you have never heard of before likely knows where you are right now. That information is being bought and sold right now. Those apps and their […]
How The New York Times broke down the history of the NYC subway map
For the 40th anniversary of the New York City subway map, The New York Times created an interactive story that all but places you directly inside the map. Using a […]