Storybench

storybench takes an “under the hood” look at the latest in digital storytelling, from data visualization and investigative journalism to virtual reality and the digital humanities. in addition to in-depth features and interviews with industry practitioners, we offer hands-on tutorials that can be “downloaded” right into the newsroom or classroom. we also publish research we're running at northeastern's school of journalism along with collaborators in data science, communication studies, computational social sciences and information design. these projects include the co-laboratory for data impact, the climate journalism lab, the 2020 storybench election coverage tracker and the reinventing local tv news project. our editorial board includes student editors and faculty advisors. we take a team-based approach to storytelling. every article, video, audio and data visualization is produced with the oversight of one student editor and one faculty sponsor. the editors and sponsors differ fo