Analysis - Multimedia
By Zach Batia
Media organizations not only use different angles to tell stories, they use different forms of multimedia to add dimensions to their story telling. Two examples are this story from CNN and this one from Fox News about Marie Yovanovich's public impeachment testimony this week.
The Fox News story focuses on the bizarre interactions which occurred during the testimony between Yovanovich, the House panel, and Trump via twitter. The president tweeted at Yovanovich during her testimony, and the panelists orchestrating the questioning relayed the tweets to Yovanovich, who responded in real time. The article displays some of Trump's tweets about Yovanovich, a reactionary tweet from congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, and multiple videos with comments from other sources and footage of the event. The tweets are the most important added aspect as they are a direct primary source to the topic of the article, and the videos show exactly what happened during the testimony as the bizarre scene unfolded. These elements bring the reader into the story far more than a simple wall of text would be able to. The additional commentary from other sources also helps to add further context without overwhelming the reader with more words.
The CNN article is a live feed of articles, tweets, and videos about the hearing. Similarly to the Fox article, the videos provide a direct view into the testimonies, while the tweets provide additional context and reaction, but this coverage has a more general focus blanketing the testimony as a whole rather than focusing on Trump's tweets. The blog-style feed links to articles, which themselves provide more contextualized and detail oriented stories about the impeachment, allow the feed itself to be a general overview of the testimony while the multimedia aspects provide additional details if the reader chooses to interact with them.
By Zach Batia
Media organizations not only use different angles to tell stories, they use different forms of multimedia to add dimensions to their story telling. Two examples are this story from CNN and this one from Fox News about Marie Yovanovich's public impeachment testimony this week.
The Fox News story focuses on the bizarre interactions which occurred during the testimony between Yovanovich, the House panel, and Trump via twitter. The president tweeted at Yovanovich during her testimony, and the panelists orchestrating the questioning relayed the tweets to Yovanovich, who responded in real time. The article displays some of Trump's tweets about Yovanovich, a reactionary tweet from congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, and multiple videos with comments from other sources and footage of the event. The tweets are the most important added aspect as they are a direct primary source to the topic of the article, and the videos show exactly what happened during the testimony as the bizarre scene unfolded. These elements bring the reader into the story far more than a simple wall of text would be able to. The additional commentary from other sources also helps to add further context without overwhelming the reader with more words.
The CNN article is a live feed of articles, tweets, and videos about the hearing. Similarly to the Fox article, the videos provide a direct view into the testimonies, while the tweets provide additional context and reaction, but this coverage has a more general focus blanketing the testimony as a whole rather than focusing on Trump's tweets. The blog-style feed links to articles, which themselves provide more contextualized and detail oriented stories about the impeachment, allow the feed itself to be a general overview of the testimony while the multimedia aspects provide additional details if the reader chooses to interact with them.
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