(Dick Cheney jack-o-lantern. Because I can. Photo taken by P5ychoP3nguin, Creative Commons)
When Wash Post does an investigative piece in the paper, usually it's accompanied by beautifully rendered graphics online. Whatever readers thought of the Chandra Levy investigative series last summer (many people hated it with a passion and thought it was useless), it was laid out online beautttiffullyyy (In the interest of full disclosure: my boss at LoudounExtra.com was one of the main project managers/designers on the online side of things on the Chandra story).
Last week's piece on Cheney was no exception.
In print, really it wasn't that big of a deal. Just two excerpts of an article printed on Sept. 14 and 15.
But online- wow! Just look at these graphics. The picture of Cheney is dramatic- the silhouette evokes Hollywood glamour. It totally sucks you in. The graphic is carried through to the tops of the pages on the linked story portions, providing a sense of style and continuity throughout.
The online Cheney project is crammed with information that would never have made it into print- a rundown of his life and career, a detailed cast of characters with photos, and a narrated photo gallery on the vp from some colleagues, friends and acquaintances. It definitely brings out the humanity- they portray Cheney as more than a bad guy here.
Really well done piece- it definitely shows how online journalism can expand above and beyond what print can do. Lots of innovation here.
And here's another picture. (Man it was hard finding a non-biased picture of Cheney online, Flickr's full of liberal hippies. Some of the lego reenactments of the "shooting" incident are pretty funny though.)
(Picture by G3oWORK, Creative Commons)
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