Mary Williams

When I first started at the Guardian the idea of introducing data into the newsroom was greeted as warmly as the idea of bringing in a bucket of nuclear waste. The whole news industry has made real strides since then. But we also need to develop our relations…

It’s predicted that nearly three-fourths of the world’s mobile data traffic will be attributed to video by 2019. How do news organizations, particularly those with text at their core, adapt to telling stories in images and motion graphics? How do we craft stories to take into account various mobile characteristics, including attention span, screen size, visual impact and high-quality audio? Can news video be a pathway to deeper engagement?