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April 24, 2013, 1:04 p.m.

Source’s Erin Kissane offers up a great look at how news organizations represented the bombings and manhunt visually — interactive satellite photos layered with timelines, step-by-step map sequences, 3D recreations of the scene. She breaks down the different approaches by the publication and by the moment they’re trying to capture. (There’s an especially interesting depiction by The Boston Globe of how the injured were organized and treated.)

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The media becomes an activist for democracy
“We cannot be neutral about this, by definition. A free press that doesn’t agitate for democracy is an oxymoron.”
Embracing influencers as allies
“News organizations will increasingly rely on digital creators not just as amplifiers but as integral partners in storytelling.”
Action over analysis
“We’ve overindexed on problem articulation, to the point of problem admiring. The risk is that we are analyzing ourselves into inaction and irrelevance.”