This Much is True

Further Studies

• “My advice for aspiring explainer journalists” by David Roberts, VOX: 25 October, 2019

Topics

Pale Blue Dot

• “26 years ago, Carl Sagan gave us an incredible perspective on our planet” by Paul Szoldra, Business Insider: 14 February, 2016

Bert the Turtle

Texts

Documentaries

Explainers

The following will give you a few suggestions to videos you can work with. In the “Methods of Analysis” chapter of the book Narrating Truth, you will find a list of study questions which can be used on all explainer journalism pieces.

• “How bitcoin is like the internet in the 80s” VOX: 23 April, 2014

• “Coronavirus is not the flu. It's worse.” VOX: 1 April, 2020

• “The conflict in Kashmir, explained” VOX Atlas: 21 March, 2019

• “America's cocaine habit fueled its migrant crisis” VOX Atlas: 8 February, 2019

• “The massacre of Tulsa's "Black Wall Street" VOX: 27 February, 2019

• “This Is What The Life Of An Incel Looks Like” Vice: 2 August, 2018

• “Can Trump Pardon Himself? Yes — and It’s Complicated” Vice: 18 December, 2020

• “Can 100% renewable energy power the world?” by Federico Rosei and Renzo Rosei, TED-Ed: 7 December, 2017

• “Plato’s Allegory of the Cave” by Alex Gendler, TED-Ed: 17 March, 2017
  

Why some Americans' votes count more than others.

Podcasts

Grammar and Vocab