As the geek-in-residence at Seven Days, I love it when an online news story comes with a good interactive or multimedia element — a “news app,” as the cool kids say. That and I have a laughably tiny attention span, such that pushing buttons is more appealing than reading 3000 words (don’t tell my bosses).
The NPR mothership has long pioneered the use of web-native technology in journalism (a recent favorite is their exhaustive guide to “Arrested Development” jokes), and now that’s trickled down to their Vermont member station. Vermont Public Radio published a great multi-part interactive breaking down which towns and organizations have received the $185 million in grant money FEMA doled out after Tropical Storm Irene.
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