Boston Globe News Apps team

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1. News Apps Team Except Russell. He’s dead to us.
2. Interactives Data Viz Long forms What we do
4. Make It Stop Editorial on gun control
5. Goal How might we create an informative and straightforward experience that engages our users enough to want to take political action?
7. What worked Delegation Small group Short timeline (for better and for worse)
8. …And what didn’t Last-minute Lack of trust
9. Arresting Words What people say at the time of their arrest
10. Goal How might we use this data to help readers understand the raw emotion of this story?
12. What worked Small group Based on data/writing as a feature Top notch editing Hallway UX testing
13. …And what didn’t Last-minute No social media/post- launch plan
14. Chasing Bayla One man's attempt to save a whale
15. Goal How might we present a cohesive digital experience that caters to different kinds of user behaviors?
17. What worked Pitching with a prototype Taught us A LOT about user habits
18. …And what didn’t Building a custom experience in a CMS :(
19. Best Practices According to us…
20. Start Early
21. Establish trust
22. Don’t make assumptions about other people’s processes
23. Curate and establish a content MVP
24. Make your storytelling adaptive
25. Eat your own dog food
26. Ask thoughtful questions (meta reporting)
27. “I have this interview with Hillary Clinton already written, can you help me make it look important?” via Vox Storytelling Studio
28. “I have access to Hillary Clinton for a 45-minute interview and I don’t want to do what we did last time. How can we push this story?” via Vox Storytelling Studio
29. “We want to do a tour across the country that has videos, interactive maps, VR, and charts.” via Vox Storytelling Studio
30. “We want to tell the story of the common threads that tie Americans together, despite the surface-level differences city to city. We’ll focus on these unifying themes: suburbs vs. city, revitalization vs. gentrification, rising prices vs. low inventory, preservation vs. development. We’ve got writers, we can hire photographers, we are game for anything!” via Vox Storytelling Studio
31. “I want to do something amazing around the Olympics. What should I do?” via Vox Storytelling Studio
32. “I think there’s an opportunity to tell a story about how Olympians have evolved, and we have a data set going back to 1986. What can this be?” via Vox Storytelling Studio
33. “We have to do this because we need to win an award and we do it every year.” via Vox Storytelling Studio
34. “Our audiences expect us to do this every year because it matters to them. Here’s everything we’ve learned from previous iterations. How can we rethink this in a totally different way?” via Vox Storytelling Studio
35. Workshop
36. Climate change
37. A story on how climate change has affected your community
38. What’s your angle? Pitch a more succinct idea surrounding this topic. What kinds of questions should you ask to hone in on the digital experience you’d like to create? What kind of of people should you be talking to? (Photographers, writers, videographers, analytics, data people, etc etc)
39. User stories
40. 28-year-old professional at Dunkin’ Donuts getting a coffee, usually has about 3 minutes in line to consume something on her iPhone
41. 63-year-old retiree, at home, on a Sunday, with her iPad
42. 36-year-old professional, commuting to work on the commuter rail (which has notoriously awful wifi)