CHAPTER 17

Digital and Mobile Story Mining

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Stories are forever.

But the way we go about brainstorming, digging, creating, presenting, promoting, and sharing stories is changing. As digital artist and big thinker Joe Sabia said, “In 6,000 years of storytelling, [people have] gone from depicting hunting on cave walls to depicting Shakespeare on Facebook walls.”

Journalists have long contended news and feature stories are created in four main physically impacting ways. Your feet need to be begging for a break due to their constant pounding on the streets of your beat. Your voice needs to be hoarse from working contacts. Your stomach needs to ...

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