Snow Fall

"Snow Fall: The Avalanche at Tunnel Creek"
Short story by John Branch
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Genre(s)Multimedia feature/Long-form journalism
Publication
PublisherThe New York Times
Publication date2012

"Snow Fall: The Avalanche at Tunnel Creek," is a New York Times multimedia feature by reporter John Branch about the 2012 Tunnel Creek avalanche, published on December 20, 2012. The article won the 2013 Pulitzer Prize in Feature Writing and a Peabody Award.[1] Packaged together as a six-part story interwoven with interactive graphics, animated simulations and aerial video, "Snow Fall" became one of the most talked about online news articles in 2013 and garnered praise and debate over it being an example of "the future of online journalism."[2] The article became highly influential among online journalism circles, with many other publications attempting similar multimedia features and even coined an industry term, "to snowfall."[3]

  1. ^ "Snow Fall: The Avalanche at Tunnel Creek (www.nytimes.com)". Peabody Awards 2012. Retrieved 2017-02-11.
  2. ^ Greenfield, Rebecca (2012-12-20). "What the New York Times's 'Snow Fall' Means to Online Journalism's Future". The Atlantic. Retrieved 2017-02-11.
  3. ^ Dowling, David; Vogan, Travis (2014). "Can We "Snowfall" This?". Digital Journalism. 3 (2): 209–224. doi:10.1080/21670811.2014.930250. S2CID 60732515.