Stories Beyond the Headlines
Welcome to our online guide to the Web’s best video and multimedia journalism. We are dedicated to surfacing the Web’s most moving stories, serving as a curated resource for viewers seeking depth, quality, and professional integrity in digital storytelling.
Our Mission
In an era of comprehensive video portals and endless content streams, finding high-quality documentary-style journalism can be frustratingly difficult. Our project serves as an antidote to the noise. We focus instead on handpicked, high-quality multimedia journalism produced primarily by major media outlets and independent professionals who meet rigorous industry standards.
We are a curated platform. This means that the stories we showcase are searched for, selected, annotated, and organized by professional journalists. Our aim is to provide the quintessential daily guide to the best the medium has to offer, so you do not have to wade through a swamp of video nonsense to get to the good stuff.
Our Editorial Criteria
We hold every piece of content to a strict set of standards to ensure quality and authenticity.
1. True. Nonfiction. We feature real stories. This means no scripted improv sitcoms and no amateur home videos. We focus on reality and truth.
2. Journalism. Content must meet professional standards and criteria. We prioritize pieces produced by reputable major media news outlets. We look for feature pieces rather than daily news or event coverage, preferably with multiple sources, voices, and professional narration.
3. Must Be on the Web. We focus on digital-first content. Preferably, pieces are created exclusively for the Web, rather than content previously aired on television.
4. Visual Storytelling. Stories must include video and/or audio slideshows. We look for compelling moving images. While we appreciate cutting-edge multimedia elements, ultimately, video and/or photographs must tell the story—not just charts, graphs, maps, or illustrations. We do not feature simple captioned photo galleries.
5. Documentary Style. We look for long-form newsmagazine-style pieces with a beginning, middle, and end. We seek interesting characters and a clear moral or point of view. However, topics need not be dreary; we also publish lighthearted fare.
6. Professional Quality. The still and/or moving images, audio, writing, editing, and storytelling must meet the journalism industry’s highest professional standards.
Why This Matters
As major media companies migrate their resources from print and broadcast to their online ventures, multimedia journalism stories are coming into their prime on the Web. Little by little, truly excellent video journalism is starting to blossom and flourish. The problem is discovery: who has time to hunt for it?
We do the hunting for you.
How You Can Participate
We rely on our community to help us find the best content on the Web. You can contribute in the following ways:
- Recommend Producers: If you know anyone developing or producing Web multimedia journalism, please put us in touch with them.
- Suggest Outlets: If you know of a media outlet that regularly produces top-notch Web multimedia journalism, please share their URL with us.
- Submit Stories: If you come across individual examples of these kinds of pieces in your Web travels, please email us the URL. Even a short description helps us locate it.
When submitting, it is helpful to include the name of the website, title of the piece, a brief description, and why you think it is meritorious. Submitters will be credited on the site along with their comments.
Contact Us
We are always looking for great stories. If you have a recommendation or a question, please reach out to our editorial team.