Campfire Journalism notes on teaching interactive storytelling

YouTube recently launched a project called The Reporters’ Center, a series of how-to interviews with reporters, editors, and media professionals. There are plenty of big names like Bob Woodward, Nicholas Kristof, and Arianna Huffington. And there are some helpful technical tutorials like how to capture breaking news on a cell phone, how to shoot a basic video interview, and how to promote a YouTube video.

But I suggest scrolling past the celebrity journalists and the most viewed videos to interviews with people from organizations like the Pulitzer Center and Witness.

In an segment called Telling an Untold Story, Jon Sawyer of the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting talks about a group of young journalists who went to Ethiopia and Kenya to report on the lack of clean water, which accounts for more deaths than HIV, malaria and tuberculosis combined. They produced a series of print stories, photo essays, audio interviews, and video segments that appeared in a variety of news outlets and a Web site called Water Wars. It’s a great example of how to report and produce a story for a variety of platforms.