Balancing Todays Storytelling With Single-Story Models
Who closely looks into the online publishing industry sees the great struggle of finding the right balance between professional reporting, citizen journalism and social media. A tussle between the actual and the factual and, as may be said, a shift in the traditional role ascribed to news publishers in general: From the watchdogs of society to the role of selector, verifier and commentator.
Syria Deeply As A Great Example
Lara Setrakian, a former correspondent for ABC News and Bloomberg Television perfectly describes the practical clash in serving an audience of people thirsty to understand more about foreign stories than just the mainstream news cycle. With the launch of Syria Deeply, she unriddles the flaws of traditional news reporting, mainly the uncomfortably opaque, lack of space for complex background stories and the absence of the possibility of participation. Syria Deeply is a single-story website functioning as a platform that fuses journalism and technology to better cover a complex story. The desire is to create a better user experience by adding context to content, made possible with the help of the latest digital tools of the day.
A Great Mix With The Right Ingredients
With Syria Deeply, Setrakian hits the nail right on the head. A fair balance between news aggregation, interactive backgrounding and original reporting is what today’s stories need. Nowadays, the access of the audience to so many news sources on the web is putting journalists under more and more time pressure, impeding the traditional journalistic process.
Including valuable social content remedies the required rapidity.
Added to that, a clear overview of the factual and the actual involving the valuable voice of the audience, encouraging to get them involved and to actually allow them to participate.
The liveliness of visual content, the immediateness of social media and the inclusion of all relevant and interesting voices related to the topic ensure a huge opportunity for all you online (news) publishers out there.
Introducing A Redesign Doesn’t Have To Be Difficult And Complex
We at Crowdynews are driven by the belief that today’s stories aren’t complete without ‘real-life illustrations’. By filtering and selecting the most valuable related content from the (social) web to your stories online we transform your website into a genuine hub that includes the conversation. Implementation is fast and easy. Giving you the opportunity to embrace participatory journalism, putting context to content and, moreover, putting the user experience first.