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This thesis explores multimedia storytelling as a melting pot of innovations and as an indicator for technological and structural change and adaptions in the intersection of journalism and technology. It focuses on the rise and development of multimedia storytelling in the past two decades, assesses the current state of the art of multimedia story production in Germany and the US, and explores the future development of this genre as assessed by journalists working in the field. Combining research-based knowledge, story-based quantified insights, and production-based qualitative insights, it is a comprehensive, empirical assessment of the phenomenon of multimedia stories as one example of a digital news format.
Digital culture now finds itself at an interesting moment where form is content, one that has important implications for the principles of journalism.
(David Dowling, 2019, p. 20)
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In this thesis, the brand name “Spiegel Online” is used. The two formerly separate brands “DER SPIEGEL” and its digital equivalent “Spiegel Online” merged to “DER SPIEGEL” in 2020; however, at that time, the thesis was already in progress and stories from the distinct “Spiegel Online” magazine were analyzed.
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Planer, R. (2024). Multimedia Stories: A Melting Pot of Innovations. In: Two Decades of Multimedia Storytelling in Digital Journalism. Springer VS, Wiesbaden. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-44485-3_1
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