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The Wall Street story
Posted by Vera Haller on Sep 18, 2008 under: business, economy, multimedia, newspapers, online news, video
The business news this week has been staggering. The complexity and range of the stories make them difficult to understand, thereby making the need for explanatory reporting great. So I wondered, does the Web, with its complexity and range in story telling possibilities, lend itself to helping readers understand what is happening on Wall Street?
My guess is that sometime soon, we will see a terrific interactive graphic that lays out the events, crunches numbers and gives us some perspective. So far, I haven’t found it. What I’m seeing in terms of multimedia coverage is not very compelling video of editors and experts giving interesting summaries and analysis. Take a look at this one from wsj.com. Maybe these type of features are better as audio podcasts because what they are saying is much more interesting that what we are seeing.
I like that the nytimes.com is trying to maximize the Web’s ability to link people together quickly with its Q&A with experts. Readers send in questions and the experts give the answers. I also liked wsj.com’s photo gallery, which recorded reactions to the financial crisis around the world. A viewer was left with an impression that the gloom and worry was being felt everywhere, not just on Wall Street.
Please send me links of interesting multimedia coverage of this story.
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I really appreciate the wsj photo gallery. From someone who has no interest in the financial world, I really felt for the employees on wall street. The employees oversee large amounts of money and when the system plunges so did their emotions, as seen in the photos. But if they look at the Infrastructure of our economy they would have known this, melt down, was bound to happen.