Dolan Media Management

July 02, 2009

"Rolling" Investigations Keep High Interest Stories Alive

By Cathy Spencer

Introducing graphics that more fully explain unclear aspects of a story as new information becomes available greatly help users' grasp of the story. This Washington Post story is a good example of a rolling investigation and their sidebar graphic explains how the faulty circuit and a key device's failure led to the death of 9 people.

This Frederick News Post article outlines in detail how the Automatic Train Control circuitry should work and what went wrong. They also include links to PDFs that document the problem as it was recorded in the Metro logs.

Read Tom Dolan's advice article, Producing the Perfect Management Team, originally published in the RTNDA's Communicator

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