Examples

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Top tips for building the best InterviewJS story:

1. Stories can cover any topic or debate but should be based on longform interviews.
2. You can edit your interview texts but you can never make up quotes! InterviewJS is a journalism tool and rules of journalism apply.
3. Chose a strong issue that allows interviewees to hold different points of view.
4. Five different interviewees are ideal but any number is possible.
5. Create a conversation by selecting a strong quote for the chat messenger before writing a question that lead to the quote.
6. Avoid long chunks of text - allow users to engage with the interview through questions and interactions.
7. Go beyond text and maximise your use of multimedia messages: embed videos, maps, sound, and images.
8. Most importantly learn how to create a choice between two questions - this really gives the user agency.
9. Experiment! You can delete messages, rearrange them, and edit text before publishing.
10. Not enough context for your interviews? Consider casting yourself as an interviewee who provides extra info.
11. At the end, create strong feedback questions by getting users to choose between different points of views exposed in the story. Or test their knowledge.
12. Publishing a story generates an original link. Use it to share your story on social media or embed it on your webpage!
13. Nothing is written in stone! You can continue to edit and change stories even after they have been published.

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