Cross-Media Research and the Editorial Perspective - Helje Solberg

72 women killed by their men – a VG story on all platforms INMA, October 2008

That was then, this is now…

72 women killed by their men – a VG story on all platforms INMA, October 2008

The idea • Family dead      • Two more women killed     • Find all    • Family tragedy    

The puzzle • 12 weeks research    • 124 homicides     • Rela9ons     • Rela9ves    • 400 names    • 100 convic9ons in 48 cases     Excel-dokument

Findings • Doctor, engineer, oﬃcer, refugee, alcoholic, poli9cian    • 57 per cent wanted divorce    • 65 per cent ethnic Norwegians    • Suicide    • Strangled or stabbed to death     • Only two found insane   

Primary goals «VG wanted to set a national agenda, using all our platforms from November 12th» «We wanted to catch and keep the readers from day one.» «News, causes and consequences should be covered throughout week 46 with the best cases and angles.» «We used all our skills and power to refine the findings and give the story a national impact.» Tekst hentet fra innkallingen til felles planleggingsmøte VG Avis / VG Nett

Plan • AgendaseKng by paper    • Follow‐ups on web and tv    • Animated graphics      • A web‐special     • Interac9vity     • Debate    • Live pictures   

The cooperation • Research by paper    • Mul9medial thinking    • Web involved last three weeks    

One list

One case. Paper, web and tv

• http://atvs.vg.no/player/index.php? id=12594

ETHICS • 63 children    • Contacted all families    • Daily mee9ngs focused on ethics   

Bertina-video

What we made • 28 pages in VG paper    • 12 frontstories on the web    • 33 newsreleases on the web    • 15 exclusive webstories, not in paper    • 6 TV‐programs    • 3 readers ques9ons    • Debates, blogs and comments    • 350 readers in protocol   

Dad killed mum

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Did we succeed? • Na9onal agenda from day one    • Debates in na9onal radio, tv and other newspapers    • Remained a VG story     • Well‐planned on all plaWorms    • Diﬃcult for compe9tors    • Governmental research star9ng soon     • Extensicve focus on problem   

No more ”family tragedy” ”It makes my daughters death to a kind of Romeo and  Juliet story. That is a very wrong descrip9on of a brutal  homicide and should never be used again.”  Lise Seljegard, Elines mother 

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