Interview How We Made “Spot the Ball”
- By Alastair Coote, Erin Kissane, Sam Manchester, Rumsey Taylor
- Alastair Coote, Sam Manchester, Colleen McEnaney, Rumsey Taylor
- The New York Times
Even among the many wonderful World Cup interactives and news apps we saw this year, the NYT’s Spot the Ball was a standout, both in conception and execution. We spoke with the team behind it about the project’s design, world-class Photoshopping, and surprising inspiration.
Project Finding the Story in 150 Million Rows of Data
Al Jazeera America’s Joanna S. Kao on annotating and visualizing the Adobe database hack.
Event The GEN Newsgaming Hackathon
Last weekend, ten teams participated in a competition to develop newsgames at Editors’ Lab New York, a hackathon organized by the Global Editors Network and The New York Times.
Combining the fantastical and playful aspects of gaming with hard news is a hard problem and there are few examples of well-conceived and executed newsgames. Thanks to the hack day, there are now a few more.
