Wednesday, June 13, 2012

#SeeHear: Revolutionary Road, WBUR Poll.

After Libya's War, Acts Of Vengeance - Photos of destruction and war damage in Libya from Steve Inskeeps Revolutionary Road Trip across North Africa.

WBUR Poll: Many In Mass. ‘Very Satisfied’ With Quality Of Health Care - WBUR delivered the whole poll report through Scrbd, adding a slideshow of some of the key charts from the report.

From Twitter @JemStone suggested a couple of great audio pieces about gangs in London, UK. How do London gangs function? and The rise and fall of Brixton's GAS gang. These are great audio pieces.  Interesting stories with lots of sound.  The first is audio with a description.  In the second the BBC has done a nice job of writing through the radio script to create a story, and added four photos.

In the spirit of constructive criticism: as a digital story this is great radio on the Web.  It's still great radio, but it could be more in the digital space.

When producers write through a story, the color the radio piece had in its sound is lost, leaving a factual but flat story.  Finding big, great pictures, graphics and data also takes time.  Like anything else, if it's going to be good, it's going to take a lot of work.

This raises a significant issue for radio organizations. What do you do in the digital space when you have a staff focused on creating great radio and a time budget that has little space for anything else?

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