Abstract
The article presents a reflection about innovation in web journalism, with special focus on the expressive contents and narratives. From this perspective, it appears that features like longform text, the refreshing use of audio and immersive content, such as graphic or imagistic representations in 3D and, more recently, virtual reality (VR), have stood out in this kind of news product at least since 2012. The paper also introduces a state of the art of some existing products and the media labs in some leading news organizations. It discusses the concept of innovation in the light of authors dedicated to the subject, in a literature review, complemented by descriptions of initiatives such as media labs in some online newsrooms, and analysis of narratives that we consider innovative in web journalism.
Keywords
Innovation; Innovative Journalism; Webjournalistic narratives; Expressive contents; Media labs
