Our goal at Shorthand has always been to empower users to craft the most engaging visual narratives on the web. Remaining at ...

Unlikely as this might seem from social media platforms, we’re living in a golden age of science communication. As newspapers and magazines struggle to fund specialist science reporters, it might seem ...

Thanks to paywalls, any website can now ask visitors to pay if they want to read their content. Prominent examples of paywalls include the New York Times and the Washington Post, who both use paywalls ...

It’s easier than ever to paywall your content. But before you do so, you need to make sure you can produce content that is worth paying for — and produce it at scale. When most people think of content ...

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We're talking 3.2 billion images shared online every single day. A decade ago, observers were predicting that this would spell the end of professional photography. But as we all know from our ...

Investigative journalism puts the spotlight on abuses of power, finding stories that are flying under the radar and sharing them in the public interest. Yet cutting-edge twenty-first-century ...

The problem for most web content professionals, though, is that truly interactive online maps have been incredibly expensive to produce and maintain. Expertise in geospatial data and web development ...

As PDFs fall out of favour, content teams are increasingly looking to create interactive visual stories. This is not surprising. Done well, visual storytelling works. It can win the attention of your ...

But the second dominant trend — forgive the contradiction — is that content outside of social media is actually getting longer. As we explain in our guide to longform content, media and marketing ...