There are 653,324 ideas• We can experiment with networked

reporting, new editorial structures, storytelling tools, data base journalism and more.

Why Experiment?

• Rule of the Internet: Cheaper/Easier to try than to debate about trying.

• Stems from “Agile and Iterative” Fail early, fail often - try again.

Two Radical Concepts

Hope is not a strategy

Second Concept

It’s still journalism even if we don’t

recognize it.

Technology Companies

Media companies

The future of media consumptionWe might not

recognize this spaceEVOLUTION

“A Horseless Carriage”

Mistake

•1890 horse breeders thought they were in the horse business.

Mistake• Broadcasters think their in the broadcast

business

• Newspaper reporters think they are in the newspaper business

• Radio reporters think they are in the radio business

Anyone in this space!is in the information business

Geography of the Web

The information business is booming!

A changing geography

You are part of this geography

The best mobile experiences are native How you tell a story depends on how a person consumes it.

Video Games Photo Sharing News

DO YOU HAVE ANYTHING?

Actions like swiping - have a texture that is part of the storytelling experience (Snowfall). It adds a new dimension to the storytelling. The reader doesn’t scan with their eyes - they can feel the story. This will become more intense: geolocation, accelerometers, gesture control, Augmented reality, etc.

TV for the Internet Moments

Example: “click here” doesn’t mean anything anymore.

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Facebook is bringing back the silent newsreel

ht Josh Kalven

On YouTube - the Click/Sound still Rule

Platform Intelligence

Content can appear without other editorial context

This is also related to the “death of the homepage”

Content can appear without other editorial context

Content will appear with platform context

Content DOES appear with platform context

“It’s about making [the text] scannable, quite modular,” — Nathalie Malinarich, mobile editor for BBC News

Infographics & new mediums of distribution

Infographics have performed well on: - Twitter - Medium - Reddit - Tumblr - Facebook

AJ+ stylized templates for efficiency

Twitter-optimized quote templates.

Even Al Jazeera Turk likes them!AJ+ templates for Infogram, speedy content production

Content can appear without context.

Mistakes Happen

Don’t raise blood pressure: Pushes, slow performance, bad transitions, bad sign up process.

“Mobile experiences fill the gaps while we wait. !Nobody wants to wait while they wait.”

Mike Krieger

This cartoon is about to reach for his phone!

Fundamental Shift

AJ Plus Content

Here Comes Everybody• Figuring out success on the web is like

predicting the weather. It’s not an exact science - but we are getting better all the time.

• Journalism will only succeed on the shoulders of its failures. (May a thousand flowers bloom).

• The law of numbers says we will figure this out.

• Story time....... How does a four-year-old interact with the world?