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    TimelineJS ReimaginedA new approach to Knight Lab's oldest tool

    by Joe Germuska

    Knight Lab’s TimelineJS has been enormously popular. Since the Knight Lab launched TimelineJS in 2012, users have created more than one million timelines, garnering over 1 billion views. Given that popularity, we’ve been hesitant to make big changes to it. We couldn’t easily communicate with timeline authors, and we didn’t want to break things that had been published, and, honestly, we were sometimes a little dizzy at how quickly JavaScript development tools and practices were changing. Even...

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    What if news avoiders are right, and you don’t need journalism?

    Journalistic training emphasizes that our societies NEED journalism, but it’s fair to ask if anyone actually NEEDS the journalism we’re currently getting. Many people worldwide are not asking ‘if’ they need today’s journalism – they’re showing they don’t: 40% “often or sometimes avoid the news these days,” according to the latest Digital News Report (42% in the US, 46% in the UK, and over 60% in some other countries). Too often, traditional journalism fails to...

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    A Big Change That Will Probably Affect Your Storymaps

    by Joe Germuska

    A big change is coming to StoryMapJS, and it will affect many, if not most existing storymaps. When making a storymap, one way to set a style and tone for your project is to set the “map type,” also known as the “basemap.” When we launched StoryMapJS, it included options for a few basemaps created by Stamen Design. These included the “watercolor” style, as well as the default style for new storymaps, “Toner Lite.” Stamen...

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    Another Big TimelineJS Update That You Shouldn’t Even NoticeBut we wanted to warn you ahead of time

    by Joe Germuska

    There’s another big but invisible change coming to TimelineJS. In July, we announced a big update to TimelineJS on the day of the release. With some minor exceptions, we were right that most people didn’t notice. Next week, we’ll be making another big update, which, again, we hope you won’t notice. This time, we thought we should announce it ahead of time, because timelines created before January, 2015 will probably stop working unless steps are taken. Timelines...

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    A Big TimelineJS Update That You Shouldn’t Even Notice

    by Joe Germuska

    Today we’re releasing a new version of TimelineJS, but most of you shouldn’t even notice a difference. We make updates to TimelineJS periodically, and we usually don’t say much about it, partly because people who publish timelines using our embed tool are automatically updated to the new version—there’s nothing they need to change. That includes this new release. However, in this case, we thought it was worthwhile posting for two related reasons. First, this release...

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