5 easy to use digital story telling tools for journalists

The internet is a powerful tool in the hands of digital journalists. Web technology and online storytelling are more important than ever before in our present day news media. It is crucial for journalists to stay influential in this digital era. Here is a brief review of five easy to use tools and resources to help digital journalists build their stories.

 

Timeline
Timeline is used when your story is in chronological order. With this tool you can process dates and events from spreadsheets. It can also be used when you want to start from scratch. It is easy to share and embed, as all other Knight Lab tools. Here is example of a story told using timeline Nelson Mandela’s life from Time Magazine.

 

Infogr.am
 Infogr.am is a good point to start creating your data stories. Make charts and infographics by uploading data, customise it and share or embed it. Choose from all kinds of chart types.

 

Storyform
Another easy multimedia tool. Make beautiful longform stories with video, pictures, audio and text. Compatible with every device and you can choose from different templates. Here’s a bit of inspiration what you can do with this tool.

 

Steller
This tool is mobile first. With this app you can tell a story on social media through photos, videos and text. It feels like a fancy photo book.

 

Canva
Canva is as easy as learning the English alphabets. Just click, drag, drop, and then, your design is ready.  It involves easy drag and dropping to quickly design social media graphics and presentations. Check out some Canva’s examples.

Visme

Visme is both an online Presentation and Infographic tool.

It empowers the way you create and communicate visually. It’s easy, intuitive but also powerful. A perfect marriage between key features of a Presentation and design tool.

Visme allows you to customize virtually anything, edit, crop or even frame your images, change colors of your icons and much more so you can create engaging Presentations

You can see it in action here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch? v=cKJuddj8K7I

 

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