Technical tools for producing innovative press stories

Technical tools for producing innovative press stories

With some easy-to-use technical tools, journalists can produce special stories 

The Internet today offers important potential for online journalists, not only in searching for and verifying information, but also in order to tell interactive stories in an innovative way, investing web technologies designed specifically for journalists and online activists so that they can use them easily and without prior experience. programming.

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We've also researched the best tools to help journalists produce stories and materials in a more innovative and interactive way. We bring you the following list, taking into consideration free and easy to use, as well as the possibility of including articles posted on the publisher's website or sharing them on social networking sites.


1. Google My Maps

Google Map, or Google Maps, is one of Google's most powerful tools. You can create a map, locate specific places on this map, add images, text, videos and choose the layout you want, all in an easy and fast way.



Journalists can use this technique to build press stories, in which the geographical dimension is brought to the fore. It is better to present them to the public in an interactive way than to write a text report that can not tell the reader exactly where you are talking about. You can draw inspiration from this report, which we have done in a previous "ultra-sound" about the Moroccan islands occupied by Spain.

2. Timeline

Time Line can be used to tell chronological stories, where, by using this tool, events can be processed through a chronological timeline, with the possibility of including paragraphs that identify each event, images or associated videos, Time to an automatic timeline.


This technique enables the audience to receive a biography of time events in a short and concise manner, enabling it to receive the material content quickly and centrally. Here is an example of Time magazine listing Mandela's life.

3. Sway

Is a Microsoft-created tool that enables you to build a press item that includes text, images, videos and sketches on a single page. The tool gives you the freedom to style your items on the page and decorate them with the appropriate backgrounds and fonts. When you're finished you can include your story in the publisher's site.



The power of this tool is reflected in the fact that it allows journalists to design their stories and journalistic material, and display it the way they want it to appear to the public, easily and without the need for any programming experience. This is an example of "Suai" itself.

4. Piktochart

The infograph needs a design experience, but with PictWhart you can easily design an infograph without the need for basic design skills, as this tool provides professional versions ready for use. All you need to do is to replace their content with the information and contents of your material, so you can get an infograph design in a fast time.

share enables online technical tools to produce more interactive and relevant press material for the nature of the Internet audience
Video Player

This tool enables journalists to translate digital tables into graphs or charts, and allows them to display their information report through a smooth and attractive infograph design.

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5. IZI.Travel

In fact, this tool is designed for travelers to know the world on their tours, but at the same time provides journalists with a serious opportunity to display their reports in an innovative way. They allow the production of text stories that combine text and image, Internet. Here's a sample of what the article will look like, if you're interested in this tool.


6. Adobe Spark

Journalists sometimes need to edit videos and design photos to enhance their press material, but they encounter a lack of experience in using professional video and image programs that need time and effort to master. However, Adobe Spark will remove this obstacle. Video and photos easily and without experience, without having to install software on the computer.



7. QZZR

"Press Games", is one of the new races in digital journalism. It may still be absent in the Arab press, but press games are increasingly being used in international e-newspapers. It is a great way to discover the story itself in an atmosphere of entertainment and anticipation. This is a model in the Financial Times.