Kings County Politics ace reporter Kadia Goba, along with CUNY Journalism Students Maria Montanez and Joaquin Torres explored the issues of affordable housing and illegal conversions in the cutting edge new immersive form of journalism dubbed Journalism 360.
According to Medium.com, this new form of virtual reality (VR) type journalism is all the rage in journalism schools and R & D, including Google News Lab, which has partnered with the Guardian and Berliner Morgenpost on award-winning VR projects.
Further, the Knight Foundation, funded experiments that include a collaboration between Frontline and Emblematic Group, newsroom tools at the University of Texas at Austin, and student projects in a virtual reality journalism class led by Professor Robert Hernandez at the University of Southern California.
These early projects have demonstrated the promise of this new form of journalism as well as significant technical, storytelling, ethical and cultural challenges that immersive storytelling — from 360 degree video to VR — present to journalists and media organizations.
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