Through the Reynolds Journalism Institute at the Missouri School of Journalism, I worked with Fellow Scholar Dan Archer to create a series of transmedia stories for his Empathetic Media company. With a team of two other undergraduates, we were responsible for coming up with stories with a similar goal in mind — to let our audience experience a story as if they were one of the subjects.

 

The main project we worked on — soon to be published by Fusion — involved creating a virtual reality version of the Canfield Apartments where Michael Brown was killed. The second of our three ventures involved creating an iPhone game about the militarization of police forces through the 1033 Program instituted by the United States government. Our last project was a scatter plot mapping of how local news outlets covered Ebola, essentially to show how there'd been an unruly number of false cases reported as compared to the number of actual contractions of the disease.

 

Listed below are a series of promotional videos created by me in order to showcasing the process of making these stories.