FIRST PLACE
Following the Dreamers
The Washington Post
In 1988, a fifth-grade class at Seat Pleasant Elementary received an extraordinary gift: the offer of a college education paid for by two wealthy businessmen. Could extra attention and hundreds of thousands of dollars of aid help them achieve the kind of success that had eluded their parents?
Video journalist, reporter and producer: Whitney Shefte
Reporter: Paul Schwartzman
Design and Development: Kat Downs
Text editor: Lynda Robinson
Production assistance: James Buck
Research: Jennifer Jenkins and Sylvia Carignan
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Comments
Baylen: likes info in 9/11, but drawn to story in Dreamers.
Yurman: the story is Dreamers is compelling.
9/11 an interesting database, liked exploring, easy to explore. Narrative to Dreamers is strong. Wish 9/11 had a narrator, didn’t get to level of Dreamers (at least in a/v presentation.) Wanted more psycho-analytical to bring deeper meaning to 9/11 piece. Interviews were good, but wanted a peak into lives as in Dreamers. 9/11 talking heads could have been lit better, made more visually interesting.
Meeting the Dreamers vignettes were so much more than a talking head; nice job of keeping each story focused on what was important. Database aspect of 9/11 was much easier to navigate than pieces seen Saturday. Zach didn’t like part where you typed in your age, preferred seeing the tabs right away. Yurmna: not obvious you could skip that. We all agree the content is much stronger in Dreamers. Baylen: I felt the way Dreamers was edited, they really knew what they had.
SECOND PLACE
The Age of 9/11
The Washington Post
How old were you when the planes struck the World Trade Center? And where were you? And where are you now — 10 years older, 10 years after the attacks? These and similar questions are ones The Post has explored around the 10th anniversary of Sept. 11. The powerful reflections are presented as a multimedia report broken down by age — age being an important facet forming the individualized prisms through which we all view 9/11 and its effects on our lives and views.
Video journalist, reporter and producer: Whitney Shefte
Interactive designer: Grace Koeber
Reporter: J. Freedom du Lac
Art Direction: Sarah Sampsel
Interactive producer: Anup Kaphle
Community producer: TJ Ortenzi
Executive producer: Cory Haik
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Comments
Baylen: likes info in 9/11, but drawn to story in Dreamers.
Yurman: the story is Dreamers is compelling.
9/11 an interesting database, liked exploring, easy to explore. Narrative to Dreamers is strong. Wish 9/11 had a narrator, didn’t get to level of Dreamers (at least in a/v presentation.) Wanted more psycho-analytical to bring deeper meaning to 9/11 piece. Interviews were good, but wanted a peak into lives as in Dreamers. 9/11 talking heads could have been lit better, made more visually interesting.
Meeting the Dreamers vignettes were so much more than a talking head; nice job of keeping each story focused on what was important. Database aspect of 9/11 was much easier to navigate than pieces seen Saturday. Zach didn’t like part where you typed in your age, preferred seeing the tabs right away. Yurmna: not obvious you could skip that. We all agree the content is much stronger in Dreamers. Baylen: I felt the way Dreamers was edited, they really knew what they had.
