World Service, Crossing Divides
2018 Mar 15 BBCUrl↗ | Vimeo
Stack: node, react, google app script, google sheet,
A new interactive story format for BBC World Service
A new interactive story format for BBC World Service, Crossing Divides season.
Powered by a google spreadsheet, and using google app script to facilitate the process of reversioning into different languages.
Combines elements of a dialogue with that of a quiz.
a messaging interface that players use to carry out a conversation with a person on the other side of a political, ethnic, or generational divide. At the end of the conversation, they receive tips for communicating more effectively.
Read more details about the process in this Source piece "How We Made Our “Crossing Divides” News Game", and/or play with the actual interactive to see for yourself 'BBC News Labs - Crossing Divides'
C+J Video presentation
Video presentation of the project at Computational Jounalism (C+J) conference in Miami '18, on the panel, Tools for Reporting & Storytelling (starts at 49.37min)