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🧠🎨 AI, Craft & Career Moves: This Week in Digital Storytelling

Fresh reporting, smart tools and seasonal reads to power your Friday

Dec 05, 2025

Finals, Flashbacks & Fighting for Attention 🎓📽️

As deadlines pile up and attention spans thin, this week’s stories look at how media holds focus — from immersive tech to GIFs straight from the vault.

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Nov 28, 2025

Turkey, Traditions & Telling Stories That Stick 🦃📊

From data-backed turkey recipes to hot-take holidays and iconic parades, here’s how storytelling brings Thanksgiving to life

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Nov 21, 2025

From animation to algorithms🎬📊: How innovation is reshaping storytelling

Inside the tools, techniques and transparency pushes shaping the next chapter of digital journalism

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Nov 14, 2025

Borders, Backdrops & Big Shifts: Stories That See What We Miss🌍📸

From immigration crackdowns to sci-fi futures, this week’s storytelling pushes us to look closer

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Nov 07, 2025

Crunching the Numbers: From R Scripts to Sports Stats and Stadium Heat ⚾📊

This week, we’re diving into data-driven storytelling — from Bluesky trends and baseball budgets to the deadly realities of climate change on the field.

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Oct 31, 2025

Spooks, Scripts & Scary Stats: A Storybench Halloween Special 🎃💻

From horror villains with blink-and-you-miss-them screen time to vanishing government web pages, this week’s stories prove that data can be just as chilling as fiction.

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Oct 24, 2025

Reflections, Real-Time Maps & Reinvented Storytelling 🗺️🎥

From interactive maps to newsroom workflows and visual storytelling breakthroughs, this week explores how journalists find structure in chaos - and beauty in imperfection.

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Oct 17, 2025

Maps, Mindsets & Media Magic 🗺️🌿

From finding happiness in Mexico to mapping the world with data and discovering how AI and animation shape modern storytelling — this week’s issue is all about connection, creativity, and growth.

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Oct 10, 2025

War, Warnings & What’s Next: From Gaza’s Frontlines to AI’s Crossroads🌍🤖

As violence in Gaza reignites global concern, journalists are turning to satellite imagery and open-source analysis to uncover truth — while AI continues to reshape how stories are told, from newsrooms to movie screens.

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Oct 03, 2025