The session examines the best ways to find, pitch and then tell a story through digests or explainers, bulleted live updates or what-we-know lists, photo galleries or videos or motion graphics, straight narrative, some combination. What are the best methods for delivering stories, particularly on mobile devices, and what tools help make them come together efficiently? How do you make readers care? Bring a perennial story or a story pitch for your news outlet and be prepared to brainstorm new ways to tell it, focusing on mobile. Digital News Editor and Innovation Director Michelle Everhart of The Columbus Dispatch will give you new tools to make the best pitches and produce the best stories. @meverhart26

1. Making smart choices in storytelling
Michelle Everhart | ​@meverhart26 ​| ​meverhart@dispatch.com
Remember
Your competition is more than other outlets. People’s time is precious.
If your site doesn’t work, people aren’t going to give you another chance.
Don’t try to do everything.
Alternative story formats
Q&As
Nuggets - what we know/don’t know and what you need to know
Social round-up
Photo galleries
Videos
Podcasts
Charts/maps
Instagram stories
Helpful digital tools/links
From Theodore Kim​ | ​@​TheoTypes​: ​5 tips for news writing with mobile
eyes in mind​ ​Advice from a news-product marketer. ​http://bit.ly/5tipsmobile
From ​Linda Austin | ​@LindaAustin​: 30+ free tools for data visualization
and analysis:​ ​http://bit.ly/30freedatatools
by Sharon Machlis for Computerworld.com
From ​Linda Austin | ​@LindaAustin​: More tools:​ Links to dozens of tools for
digital storytelling compiled by Associate Professor Robert Hernandez at the
University of Southern California: ​http://webjournalist.org/topics/tools/
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