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Nonny de la Pena

Nonny de la Peña is a Senior Research Fellow in Immersive Journalism at the USC Annenberg School for Communications and Journalism. She is also co-founder of Stroome.com, an online community that allows collaborative remixing of visual journalism from anywhere on the globe. A graduate of Harvard University with twenty years of news experience she is a former correspondent for Newsweek Magazine and has written for the New York Times, Los Angeles Times Magazine, and many others. She is also an award-winning documentary filmmaker and her films have screened on national television and at theatres in more than fifty cities around the world. While at USC, she continues to push technological boundaries for journalistic endeavors, including exploring 3D environments for news, non-fiction and documentary.

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• Immersive journalism uses virtual gaming platforms to tell stories

  Ernest Wilson, the dean of the University of Southern California Annenberg School of Communications and Journalism, put it like this: “What if, after receiving the home and garden section in the morning, the reader could walk right into the section and visit a garden?”This bucolic vision reflects one potential scenario for what we at the Annenberg school are calling “immersive journalism,” a new genre that utilises gaming platforms and virtual environments to convey news, documentary and non-fiction stories.As ...