Tag: insights
Quarant-TV: How Traditional Outlets Can Win in an Age of Uncertainty
The coronavirus pandemic has devastated many industries. But according to recent statistics, TV news isn’t one of them. In fact, this challenging circumstance may be just the wakeup call stations […]
Audio storyteller Molly Segal on reporting in the wild
Molly Segal strolled into the classroom wearing a black turtleneck, baggy green pants, and fashionable brown boots. The classroom and her clothes were far different than her everyday work and […]
How NBC10 Boston anchor Phil Lipof got “hooked” on news
When Phil Lipof was attending Syracuse University, he planned to become an English teacher. Little did he know that he would first become a TV reporter and then the news […]
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 […]
SXSW: ‘Excel is okay’ and other tweet-size insights for data journalists and news nerds
Storybench has boots on the ground covering SXSW from multiple angles, including immersive storytelling, UX design and more. For those that didn’t make it to Austin this year, the next […]