We've been doing some work here to try and expand people's thinking about what an "online feature" might look like.
Actually, the issue is more about what an online feature isn't. It almost certainly isn't 1,500-2,000 words with a couple of pictures and maybe a sidebar if you're lucky.
Of all the migrations from print to online, the journey of the Features Editor is perhaps the hardest.
Anyway, our list of ideas for more engaging ways of presenting non-news content grows by the day but even so I was thrilled to discover FlowingData recently, a website dedicated to data visualisation.
Here are its 5 Best Data Visualization Projects of the Year to give you some examples.
Here's an example from the BBC's Britain From Above:
Journalism is a social process: we need to connect with our audience
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Building an audience is a skilful dance, combining numbers, instinct — and
good, old-fashioned conversations.
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Something I'm very interested in as a features editor that up until now has purely been about print. See the opportunities starting to open up though, just hope they don't take too long as I have ideas I'm desperate to try out.
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