All entries tagged: explainer

Matt Thompson: We can’t keep offering news without context

[Our sister publication Nieman Reports is out with its latest issue, and its focus is the impact of social media on journalism. There are lots of interesting articles, and we'll be highlighting a few here over the next few days. Here's a piece by our friend Matt Thompson about the need for context in the [...]

No comments | Posted by Matt Thompson | September 16, 2009 | 3:00 pm

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NPR’s Adam Davidson explains the explainer: a model for complex news

“I feel like the voice of business journalism is sort of, it’s an authoritative voice of God,” says Adam Davidson, international business and economics correspondent for National Public Radio, toward the end of our interview in the video above. “But there is no authority. It’s a process.”
We were talking about “The Giant Pool of Money,” [...]

6 comments | Posted by Zachary M. Seward | March 31, 2009 | 9:00 am

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Quick video explainers: An easy way to tell a complicated story

The public radio program Marketplace deals with some pretty complicated issues — sometimes too complex to be summarized in a minute or two of airtime. So senior editor Paddy Hirsch is making a series of short videos explaining difficult concepts: naked shorts, credit default swaps, collateralized debt obligations, and so on. They’re really quite clear [...]

1 comment | Posted by Joshua Benton | October 30, 2008 | 4:12 pm

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