[ddj] StoryBuilder, a new tool for creating NYT-like scrolling stories

[Andrew Callaghan]

Disappointing that you can only login with Facebook Sign In

Possible to setup login not connected to other sites, would be great

From: data-driven-journalism [mailto:data-driven-journalism-bounces at lists.okfn.org] On Behalf Of ericnbarrett at gmail.com
Sent: 01 May 2014 07:38
To: data-driven-journalism at lists.okfn.org
Subject: [ddj] StoryBuilder, a new tool for creating NYT-like scrolling stories

Dear all,

I know this doesn't technically fall into the real of data journalism, but once you are ready to tell the story, it might come in handy.

We at JumpStart Georgia wanted to do similar mixed-media scrolling stories like the NYTimes<http://www.nytimes.com/newsgraphics/2013/10/27/south-china-sea/> does. We are trying hard to inspire creativity and diversity in the ways Georgians tell stories, especially local activists, journalists, and NGOs. We initially built this for us and our stories, but decided it would be way cool for others to be able to create these types of mixed-media stories too. Not everyone can use D3<http://d3js.org/> and code a story like this.

The tool, http://storybuilder.jumpstart.ge/en/,  is mainly only functional (see the Demo<http://storybuilder.jumpstart.ge/en/storyteller/2>), but needs, of course, a lot more user interface design. However, it already works and people can start using it. Some cool features:

  *   you build the story in sections and can rearrange them once you have created them
  *   you can choose whether each section will be text or some type of media
  *   you can audio to each section
  *   currently, the media we have is screen-size photo and video, but we will add a slideshow soon and then others (maybe interactive choropleth map, simple charts, ...)
  *   the media can have captions and sub-captions
  *   you can host your scrolling story on the site itself;
  *   you can export, as a zipped file, all the files once you build it, and host them on any server you want;
  *   you can download the entire app for use in your organization (the github link is in the top-right corner - it is a Ruby-on-Rails app)
  *   we have started adding templates to it;

Obviously, we still have a lot to do (well, sky's the limit) , but slowly we will build this up and add new features. Let us know what you think and if you have any ideas that might make it useful for you, we'd love to hear them.

http://storybuilder.jumpstart.ge/en/

Eric


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