Posted by Pedro Monteiro on 05/12/2011 · 2 Comments
In early July 2011, I wrote for this blog an article about how change should happen in the way we plan, produce and present narratives for digital distribution. I was lucky enough that this article rised some attention and I went on to publish an edit version of it on the Nieman’s Storyboard website. I … Read more
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Just a couple of days ago, I found out about Sourcefabric and its future release of a free, open source, editorial system, the Superdesk. Like I always do with all the amazing digital tools I find online, I got in touch with Sourcefabric and let them know that I was looking forward for their product. … Read more
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To further understand how we must change the way we produce and present our narratives for digital distribution (I’ve written a first article about this subject here), I wanted to learn why we, as humans, need stories and storytelling. To address this subject I was fortunate enough to find Brian Boyd’s book “On the Origin … Read more
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Posted by Pedro Monteiro on 03/07/2011 · 13 Comments
EDIT: An edited version of this article was published on Nieman Storyboard website becoming the site’s most read article in 2011. The way we tell stories in the print media has been, mostly, the same for some time now. Space constraints and graphic layout have made the narrative flow a broken one. With the advent … Read more
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