How news media are covering Haiti using multimedia, social networks

Thursday, January 14, 2010

After a natural disaster like the recent earthquake in Haiti, news organizations often have just hours to put together produce multimedia and interactive elements in addition to text stories. Web Journalist Blog, in collaboration with 10,000 Words, has put together a list of maps, graphics, slideshows, interactive content and social networking efforts coordinated by mainstream news media to report the damage in Haiti. You can find even more examples, as well as ways you can donate to relief efforts, in this Digiphile post.

Also on 10,000 Words:

• Do you have a multimedia emergency plan?
• How to quickly track natural disasters online

Labels: news on the news

2 Comments

marty Says:

Its horrible what happened out there, 100,000 lives lost. It's great the response from the worlds countries was so fast. USA pledged around 100 million and my country gave 47 million. I hope they can rebuild there lives again.

January 15, 2010 10:36 AM

Devin Says:

Thanks for putting this together, Mark! Those NYT features are wild, aren't they? And just as many multimedia features as there are stories. Incredible.

January 15, 2010 2:41 PM

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