So far, these people have very little nonfiction material to play with, which makes NWI hope for a market. NWI is now producing about 20,000 disks per issue. That won't make anyone rich for a while. But if you factor in what we've learned about playing in the digital field, it is a clear net plus. The script influences the photos, the photos influence the sidebars, and so on.
Photo editors go nuts.
For its new CD, due out this November, the NWI team continued experimenting. First, it took on two multimedia stories, both about timely topics. One was on special effects in movies, pegged to this summer's blockbuster, Jurassic Park. The other was on the health care crisis, a domain whose challenge would be its dryness. In the health care piece, NWI dealt with the experts' leaden manner by ignoring video interviews altogether.