Make It Memorable by Bob Dotson and Drew Jordan is an essential guide to visual storytelling for news media students and professionals, offering new insight for the digital age and a step-by-step explanation of how to find and create visual stories under tight deadlines. The third edition includes new scripts annotated with behind-the-scenes insights and structural comments, links to online videos of all the story examples, discussion questions, additional book resources, and a glossary of script cues. Chapter 9: Lighting the Path to What's New draws on Drew Jordan's EMMY and Pulitzer Prize-winning work with the New York Times Visual Investigations unit to reveal the latest digital tools for building stories with deeper, richer visual-based narratives.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 200 pages
Publication date: 22 June 2023
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc

Visual Storytelling for News Media Students and Professionals

This essential guide to visual storytelling for news media students and professionals grounds you in proven techniques while it lights your path to the future of new media storytelling in the digital world. In "Make It Memorable," former NBC News correspondent Bob Dotson and New York Times visual investigations producer Drew Jordan present a unique and engaging hands-on approach to the craft of visual storytelling. The third edition offers new insight for the digital age and a step-by-step explanation of how to find and create all kinds of visual stories under tight deadlines. In addition to new scripts annotated with behind-the-scenes insights and structural comments, the book includes links to online videos of all the story examples.

Each chapter includes detailed story scripts with video cues, audio cues, story tips, and links to the final productions online. Discussion questions to reflect on and apply the chapter's content to your own stories. Additional book resources include a glossary of script cues, a reporter's checklist for every story, and new insights on new media and digital open-source journalism from Drew Jordan, which add to Bob Dotson's classic framework for engaging storytelling.

Chapter 9: Lighting the Path to What's New

Chapter 9: Lighting the Path to What's New draws on Drew Jordan's EMMY and Pulitzer Prize-winning work with the New York Times Visual Investigations unit to reveal the latest digital tools for building stories with deeper, richer visual-based narratives. The chapter script analyses the New York Times piece: "Day of Rage: How Trump Supporters Took the U.S. Capitol." New digital sources and tools include satellite maps and geospatial imaging, bodycam footage, user-generated smartphone footage, and social media content and data.

Weight: 281g
Dimension: 228 x 152 x 12 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781538174906
Edition number: Third Edition