CNN.com launches Backstory feature
Posted by Alisa Zykova on August 13, 2008 at 9:13 AM
CNN.com launched BackStory, an innovative tool that lets readers track the development of stories. The new feature permits news stories to be seen as scrollable sideshows.
Articles are shown as a timeline which has links to information about "key players" of a given story, reported Journalism.co.uk.
Background information appears as links in a panel on an article's page, offering a short summary of stories.
BackStory was first used by CNN when it reported on the FBI inquiry into the anthrax attacks after the aftermath of September 11 in 2001.
Source: Journalism.co.uk
Articles are shown as a timeline which has links to information about "key players" of a given story, reported Journalism.co.uk.
Background information appears as links in a panel on an article's page, offering a short summary of stories. BackStory was first used by CNN when it reported on the FBI inquiry into the anthrax attacks after the aftermath of September 11 in 2001.
Source: Journalism.co.uk
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