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PBS Frontline releases virtual reality on South Sudan's famine

PBS' investigative series FRONTLINE launched a new immersive documentary on Facebook 360, transporting viewers to war-torn South Sudan where more than 2,8 million people are suffering a hunger crisis, and near 40,000 are on the brink of starvation. We spoke to Benedict Moran, one of the filmmakers behind this challenging production.

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2016-03-04 10:27

How comics journalism is helping to humanise migration

The negative portrayal of migrants, refugees and asylum seekers in the media have led to some people not considering them as fully human. A more careful, sensitive approach is crucial and the old art of comics journalism is proving a powerful way to tell these stories in a way other forms of storytelling cannot.

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2016-02-16 14:06

Axel Springer's EPOS app showcases new ways of storytelling

“It is a completely new digital magazine product," says Hans Evert, Managing Editor, Project Lead and “father” of EPOS, an immersive multimedia storytelling platform for tablets developed by Axel Springer, which recently won a WAN-IFRA World Digital Media Award for Best in Tablet Publishing.

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Steve Shipside

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2016-01-21 16:11

Trends in Newsrooms: Gaming the news

There is a growing movement to combine two seemingly incompatible industries: gaming and the news. The gamification of news - where video game technology and practises are used in conjunction with traditional journalism methods - is the first trend identified in our 2015 Trends in Newsrooms report. Angelique Lu tells why news games are attracting worldwide interest.

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WAN-IFRA External Contributor

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2015-06-23 09:05

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