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Switzerland 2075: How we built an immersive climate change experience

Switzerland 2075: How we built an immersive climate change experience

With emerging technology, climate data, and in-depth reporting, we tackled the challenge of visualizing a possible future environment.
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Adina Renner
Unveiling the first generation data architecture of a newspaper

Unveiling the first generation data architecture of a newspaper

In this article we describe how NZZ, Switzerland’s German-speaking newspaper of record, developed and improved its first data cloud…
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Cristina Kadar
Developing actionable data insights for editorial teams

Developing actionable data insights for editorial teams

In this article, we explain how NZZ, Switzerland’s German-speaking newspaper of record, iteratively developed a dashboard that ranks…
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Cristina Kadar
Fully Redesigned, Algorithmic-driven Next Reads Section on NZZ.ch

Fully Redesigned, Algorithmic-driven Next Reads Section on NZZ.ch

This article is about how NZZ, Switzerland’s German-speaking newspaper of record, completely revamped the next reads section on its…
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Cristina Kadar
The Value of Responsible Personalization in News Recommender Systems

The Value of Responsible Personalization in News Recommender Systems

In this article, I explain how the Data Team of NZZ, Switzerland’s German-speaking newspaper of record, proved for the first time to…
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Cristina Kadar
Once upon…Virtual Reality Hackdays 2015

Once upon…Virtual Reality Hackdays 2015

Nahezu 48 intensive Stunden an VR-App-Entwicklung liegen hinter den Teilnehmern der ersten NZZ VR Hackdays.
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Christian Stettler
Four insights from our first scroller

Four insights from our first scroller

Scrollytelling is great to tell stories with data. But it is difficult to make it work. That is what we have found on our first attempt.
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Jonas Oesch
How We Accidentally Wrote Our Most Popular Story Yet and What We Learned in the Process

How We Accidentally Wrote Our Most Popular Story Yet and What We Learned in the Process

Our readers have spent over five million minutes on our graphical Covid-19 overview, more than 2500 of them decided to buy a paid…
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Nikolai Thelitz
Wie wir das reichweitenstärkste Produkt der NZZ komplett neu gedacht haben

Wie wir das reichweitenstärkste Produkt der NZZ komplett neu gedacht haben

430'000 Leser nutzen täglich unseren beliebtesten Newsletter. Zusammen mit ihnen haben wir das Produkt noch besser gemacht.
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Alexander Muehlbach
How scripts help us to rapidly respond to news

How scripts help us to rapidly respond to news

As data journalists at NZZ Visuals we automated reactions to recurring events: We wrote various scripts that promptly create…
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Marie-José Kolly
Wie wir das Artikeldesign der NZZ komplett überarbeitet haben

Wie wir das Artikeldesign der NZZ komplett überarbeitet haben

Ein Blick hinter die Kulissen der Produktentwicklung der NZZ
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Patrick Bühler
How we stopped making all graphics by hand and started printing from our graphics toolbox

How we stopped making all graphics by hand and started printing from our graphics toolbox

…and took one giant leap forward in our digital transformation.
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Anna Wiederkehr
How we built a web to print system into our graphics toolbox Q

How we built a web to print system into our graphics toolbox Q

When the tool becomes a change agent
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Beni Buess

On the importance of reducing organisational debt — and how we did it

Own or Kill — Learnings from a three-month-effort to get rid of stuff that distracted us from focusing on what really matters.
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David Bauer
How we went from individual styles to a consistent look-and-feel in the NZZ Graphics Team

How we went from individual styles to a consistent look-and-feel in the NZZ Graphics Team

What a style guide can bring to the visual harmony of a publication. And how implementing this in a daily newspaper is “complicated.”
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Anna Wiederkehr
How we Made the Digital «NZZ am Sonntag» Faster, Prettier and More Personal

How we Made the Digital «NZZ am Sonntag» Faster, Prettier and More Personal

We did a complete redesign of the website of the «NZZ am Sonntag», one of Switzerland’s leading Sunday papers. We reworked all overview…
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Katrin Huth
Five things we learned while building our new text-to-speech service

Five things we learned while building our new text-to-speech service

In March 2019, Neue Zürcher Zeitung launched its new text-to-speech service publicly. The audio player is an improved version of the beta…
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Luisa Bider
The simple tool we use to decide what stories to work on at NZZ Visuals

The simple tool we use to decide what stories to work on at NZZ Visuals

We use six criteria to gauge whether our time will be well spent on a project.
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David Bauer
How we fast-tracked the implementation of a Google Chrome Extension at Neue Zürcher Zeitung

How we fast-tracked the implementation of a Google Chrome Extension at Neue Zürcher Zeitung

Google Chrome Extensions: They’re the marble collections of our time. Here’s how we built our own.
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Luisa Bider
Wie wir bei der “Neuen Zürcher Zeitung” einen hochwertigen Text-To-Speech-Service eingeführt haben

Wie wir bei der “Neuen Zürcher Zeitung” einen hochwertigen Text-To-Speech-Service eingeführt haben

Vergangene Woche haben wir bei der Neuen Zürcher Zeitung erfolgreich einen Text-To-Speech (TTS)-Audio-Service als Beta-Version auf unserer…
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Niklaus Gerber
Personalizing Journalism: How We Are Creating a Smarter, More Personal News Experience at “Neue…

Personalizing Journalism: How We Are Creating a Smarter, More Personal News Experience at “Neue…

Today at Neue Zürcher Zeitung, a Swiss publisher of high quality journalism for a German speaking audience, we are launching our smartest…
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Markus Barmettler
Die NZZ nimmt an den Informatiktagen 2018 teil

Die NZZ nimmt an den Informatiktagen 2018 teil

Am Freitag, 1. Juni haben neun Schülerinnen, Schüler und Studenten am NZZ-Workshop an den Informatiktagen 2018 teilgenommen. Luz Wenger…
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Christian Stettler
Let’s build together — NZZ’s storytelling toolbox Q is now open source

Let’s build together — NZZ’s storytelling toolbox Q is now open source

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David Bauer
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