Metamorphosis

To get a taste for how my heroes of journalism are using the Web as a platform for multi-media packages, I visited the sites of a few established reporting outlets to see what they had to offer.

PBS - Mostly offers materials to supplement its shows - extra interviews pictures and links. One Nova story about the conservation challenge facing some of the nation's oldest and most treasured documents, offered an interactive view of the Declaration of Independence. A viewer can click on any of the squares positioned on the various areas of concern for a more detailed explanation of that particular challenge.
Moving from the PBS page to Nova's homepage, I selected a story called Japan's Secret Gardens. The story had its own homepage and was billed as the Web companion to the show. The page features a menu indexing the main subjects of the story - I selected animal transformations and was taken to a page where five animals were listed with corresponding video clips. I chose to watch the omurasaki butterfly emerge from its cocoon.