Here are some examples of interactive websites… Share some links in the comments so our class can see more examples!
Rent vs. Own – The New York Times was featured during a couple of sessions during a conference stretch. This interactive graphic was mentioned.
The Oscars Dashboard – This was interactive and awesome during the 2011 Oscars. There was extra coverage during all commercial breaks and after the Oscars ended.
Super Bowl Panoramics - The Pittsburg Post-Gazette had these interactive views into the Super Bowl.
Ethnic Mosaic – The Boston Globe took a rich number of statistics and turned it into an interactive map.
Casualties of War – This is a simple and deeply informative infographic on the military members who have died in Iraq.
MediaStorm – Spend time on this site and see the many different ways to see/read/experience the stories.
Losing Louisiana – Deeply interactive piece about damage post-Katrina and Rita. Great example of how a map can take you to so many places.
Being a Black Man – An interactive look at what it means to be a black man in today’s society.
MSNBC’s Multimedia Page - MSNBC tends to have good stuff from time to time.
Mercury News Launch Page – This takes you to all kinds of interactive stories from the San Jose Mercury News
Chicago Everyblock – The ultimate mashup of Chicago’s crime data… But now it’s a national project owned by MSNBC. Originated by Adrian Holvaty who built it with a grant from the Knight Foundation.
http://agencynet.com is another great interactive website run by a marketing agency! Check it out!
Thanks Alana!
Another tip: New York Times: 1 in 8 million: http://www.nytimes.com/packages/html/nyregion/1-in-8-million/index.html
Deep story telling from the Las Vegas Sun: http://www.lasvegassun.com/hospital-care/
Really awesome timeline of the Arab Spring: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/interactive/2011/mar/22/middle-east-protest-interactive-timeline
Here’s an interesting interactive piece from ESPN
http://espn.go.com/nfl/feature/moment/_/id/6865945/inside-moment-time-michael-vick-game-century
I LOVE The Guardian. When I studied abroad in London the woman that heads up their interactive media department met with my class. The woman is a genius. They’ve done some amazing stuff over the years. For example, UK media got ahold of documents from members of parliament a couple years ago. There were thousands of pages of documents to sift through. The Guardian uploaded all the documents and its followers helped out. The Guardian broke the story of outlandish spending by certain members of parliament by using manpower and creativity when other media outlets fell short.
Here is an example that I enjoyed from The Guardian recently. It can be difficult to follow the conflict in Syria by just reading web stories. They assembled this awesome interactive graphic that cleanly lays out the timeline of events. It’s clear and consise! This is successful because it isn’t bogged down with information and it’s easy to process.
Go Guardian!
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/interactive/2012/feb/15/syria-timeline-how-conflict-escalated-interactive
Newsmap visualizes the hottest news headlines by size and color. You can also customize the site by choosing between different countries and news topics. By putting your mouse over a headline, you can view a short summary and related articles. So useful!
http://newsmap.jp/
Newseum has to be one of the most impressive interactive web sites I have come across. It displays the front pages of more than 800 newspapers worldwide each day. The front pages are in their original, unedited form. Each weekday, the Newseum also chooses the Top 10 most interesting front pages among the hundreds it received that morning. But I can barely do it justice, you should check it out for yourself!
http://www.newseum.org/todaysfrontpages/flash/
This is a neat little flash game from NPR that allows you to be a Budget Hero and tackle the task of bringing the US federal budget into line.
Like real life, it’s really hard to get it right.
http://www.marketplace.org/topics/economy/budget-hero
http://agchat.org.
May not be the most interactive website on these comments, but they have these interactive discussions every Tuesday/Wednesday night on Twitter about agriculture issues. Anyone can join in and it’s a really neat place to meet people across the U.S. involved in agriculture.
Hi there. Here’s a really useful interactive map for census data I’ve used for research in the past. Check it out. You can learn all kinds of information about any area!
http://www.census.gov/cbdmap/
Hey! Here’s the Guardian infographic about the Arab Spring we were talking about.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/interactive/2011/mar/22/middle-east-protest-interactive-timeline
Great interactive timeline on a terrible, tragic event, the Haiti Earthquake that occurred 2 years ago.
http://www.nytimes.com/packages/html/photo/2010-haiti/index.html#/22
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