Q&A: The Guardian's Gabriel Dance on new tools for story and cultivating interactive journalism
In trying to provide context around the story, Dance and his team used a blend of data visualizations, videos, social media integration, documents, and animated GIFs. Dance doesn't see it as a collection of bells and whistles, but as a way to take advantage of the tools the web provides to help make stories more engaging. "I'm not above the idea of saying the Internet is a competitive place — there's a lot of cats and babies on the Internet," Dance said. "It's our challenge to engage our readers in a way that captivates them. And the idea I can captivate them while telling them this incredible story, there's no reason I shouldn't be able to captivate them with such an insanely interesting story."
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