Here are 7 story types that can be used to help organise investigations

Paul Bradshaw
8 min readJul 11, 2019

This year I’ve been working with my MA Data Journalism and MA Multiplatform and Mobile Journalism students on techniques for telling longer form stories. In this post (first published on the Online Journalism Blog) I explain how a consideration of seven common plot types can help you clarify what story it is you’re telling — and what you might need to tell that.

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Paul Bradshaw

Write the @ojblog. I run the MA in Data Journalism and the MA in Multiplatform and Mobile Journalism @bcujournalism and wrote @ojhandbook #scrapingforjournos