Recently my attention has been drawn to the Dutch news website www.en.nl. Wilbert Baan, interaction designer for the Dutch newspaper de Volkskrant, told me he wants to see “what we can do with news, social networks, wikis and more. “I think you might like the experiment we are doing,” he wrote. And bloody hell was he right.
De Volkskrant’s Harry Potter multimedia interactive isn’t quite what I meant when I talked about the ‘Daily Prophet’ approach to video journalism, but it’s a nice twist on the idea…
Bas Timmers is Newsroom Editor at Dutch broadsheet de Volkskrant. This post is also available at http://www.bastimmers.nl/diginewsuk.php “In the virtual world a year only lasts three months,” a manager once sighed. The innovations keep on coming very quickly indeed on the web, and a success story can turn into a tale of shattered dreams within months. Kazaa and ICQ were
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Bas Timmers is Newsroom Editor at Dutch broadsheet de Volkskrant It´s 2015. Newspapers don´t exist anymore. At least, not as a mass medium. Because everyone is living in his own cocoon, his own little world, assembled to his own preferences. Customizable, as the phenomenon is generally called. A television(or a computer screen or electronic paper?) displays documentaries and YouTube-like videos
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