Interactive Narrative Entries

World Press Photo Interviews

http://www.worldpressphoto.org/images/stories/videos/Interviews/index.php

University of Miami, Coral Gables, Fla.

University of Miami professor brings the experience of attending the World Press Photo Awards to Web. This site allows viewers to not only see the winning photos but to listen to the photographer tell the story behind the picture.

Water Wars: Ethiopia and Kenya 2008

http://clpmag.org/content/contentpages/2008/eastafrica.php

The Common Language Project/CLPMag.org, Seattle

This powerful international multimedia reporting project by emerging journalists documents the struggles of Africans to cope with water shortages and changing landscape. Packages are distributed through mainstream and alternative media. Storytelling is accompanied with behind-the-scenes blogs. Supported by Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting.

Living to the End

http://next.oregonianextra.com/lovelle/

The Oregonian, Portland, Ore.

Living to the End is a project that, for the first time, gave a close-up view of how Oregon’s unique assisted suicide law works. In a series of online video diaries, Lovelle Svart, an Oregonian dying of terminal cancer, spoke directly to readers and online viewers, telling them about the tasks of her days, her thoughts, her feelings, her fears of dying. And about a big decision that lay before her: whether to use Oregon’s Death With Dignity Act to hasten her death. Readers/viewers were able to comment online and shared and contributed to the conversation about this controversial topic.

To Catch a Killer Series

http://www.star-telegram.com/killer/

Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Fort Worth, Texas

A 24-part serial true-crime novel, television documentary and multimedia Web package about a serial killer who victimized the Hispanic community of Fort Worth. The novel stuck to journalistic standards, but each part had a cliffhanger ending to keep readers coming back to the Star-Telegram for weeks. On the Web, users could examine documents, use interactive graphics, hear audio and video interviews and chat with the authors. Response was astoundingly positive, including from surviving victims.

Heroes/Hope

http://alt.coxnewsweb.com/palmbeachpost/hiv/index.html

Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting, Washington

The Pulitzer Center led a multi-platform, highly collaborative in-depth reporting project on HIV/AIDS in the Caribbean. The project brought together old and new media and reached out into both schools and the blogosphere to foster citizen engagement.

CNN.com - Impact Your World

http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/2007/impact/youssif.html

CNN, Atlanta

“When disaster strikes or horrible events unfold, these are opportunities to effect change.” CNN.com’s Impact Your World reports on crises and tragedies around the world and provides links to relevant reputable charities so that readers can help. Links are to the highest rated charities by Charity Navigator, an independent non-profit that evaluates charity groups. A story about a 5-year-old Iraqi boy who was doused in gas and burned by unknown masked men has spurred 13,000 donations totaling more than $800,000 to Children’s Burn Foundation.

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