What’s my first impression of an article 'Snow fall'?
When I worked as a journalist in Korea in 2016, my company gave me a task beyond my power. It was making an official SNS and developing it. At that time, I was a total newbie to the SNS thing. I had my Twitter account, which was not in use. I did use Facebook more than Twitter, but only for sharing interesting news to me, uploading funny videos and sometimes celebrating my friends’ birthday. It is a confession based on my self-reflection. After I got the mission from the Company, I spent much time on the social media to get used to it. I think that about one year of striving for my task made me get interested in social media.
Time passed, now, when I first saw the “Snow Fall,” I felt it was just awesome. It consists of a photo album, maps, 3D graphics, and videos. In my opinion, it includes all multimedia contents they could use. These features enable readers to see the article in like three-dimensions. The readers can read it imagining what happened at the time when the event occurred. It is not reading the news. It’s listening, seeing and experiencing the story. Also, this content is set out to respond by readers’ actions like scrolling up and down. It makes them focus more on it. To sum up, it is incredible.
After being published in 2012, it affected other news outlets over the world. After a while, lots of Korean media, including my company, tried to follow it. However, most of them stopped making it in the way. It was not a sustainable solution to survive within limited resources. We just did it because it looks nice. As one of the journalists who is living in the new media era, I will need to have its experimental mind through “Snow Fall,” not just what it appears. Only with many trials and errors, I will get my experimental value.
