Credit: By vlad09 on Shutterstock News NPR's visuals team is using an analytics bot to measure if people care about stories 'We'd been playing around with alternative metrics for longer than one and a half years and this idea came out of our questioning of what our mission is, why have a visuals team at a radio organisation?' By Mădălina Ciobanu • 5 min read
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Credit: Image courtesy of Marc Ellison News The digital graphic novel: A different approach to storytelling Photojournalist Marc Ellison's new graphic novel aims to inform people about the struggles faced by four women in Uganda after spending most of their lives with the Lord's Resistance Army By Mădălina Ciobanu • 5 min read
