Virtual news design is possible!

Janis Spivak's lecture was an inspiration to me. A fantasy component to my culminating project — a virtual news story — seems actually possible to do. My project is to research interactivity online in news organization web sites, and propose a new model that incorporates diverse methods of presenting information. So far I am including audio, video, interactive informational graphics and social networks. If news organizations could outsource recreations and process documents to companies like There's sister company Fronterra, then visitors could experience news events virtually. This would be especially useful when news photography is poor or impossible, the event is already over/historic, or the subject is invisible or hidden. 2D informational graphics accomplished this task in print, and 3D seems the to be a logical progression. Spivak claims that most of the world is already built as virtual spaces, especially since Google Earth has been in existence, and news reports could indeed be created in a timely manner by companies that specialize in this work. Since newsrooms are downsizing (or shutting down!), it strengthens my contention that more interesting news web sites can be produced than currently exist even with few graphic artists on staff, by recognizing that complex visuals can be reported by professionals, and then created outside the newsroom.