
A few months ago I attended a couple of Journalism related conferences:
The Society of News Design conference in Las Vegas and the Online News
Association in Washington D.C. One of my goals attending these
conferences was to assess the current understanding of new storytelling
resources inside the online media industry, mainly interactive
infographics and games, and how the newsrooms where adapting to the new
challenges. It was good to see that many outlets were thinking and
doing things about these topics. However, I believe their approaches
are still too shy... and probably still unsuited for game development in a news environment.
For many years the word "convergence" has been present inside the media
industry, but not many experiments became as successful as expected. Some companies
blended their broadcast, print, and online newsrooms, others created
collaboration teams between them, and many other combinations. In many
cases the companies underestimated the culture clashes, technological
challenges, and other issues that they would face. Others made deeper
changes that seem to be going into the right direction. Even media
companies where convergence was not an issue years ago are streamlining
their operations and integrating as much as they can with their web
counterparts.








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