An overlooked aspect of the shift of news coverage from print to digital is the rich possibilities the latter platform offers for reporting. Case in point, the remarkable report “Snow Fall: The Avalanche at Tunnel Creek” just produced by The New York Times.
This compelling, multi-part story about a backcountry avalanche that killed three blends traditional narrative seamlessly with streaming images that show topographic maps of where the avalanche happened, interactive graphics that illustrate what made the snow slide and how the air bag deployed that may have saved the life of skier Elyse Saugstad, even a weather map showing the movement of the storm that created the unstable snow. (Scattered throughout are low-key advertisements, for those of you curious about how the business model works.)
And after all that, there’s a video documentary in the words of the survivors. It’s an exhaustively reported, respectful story of the tragedy. Read it now.
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