Content Producer and new media guru Andrew Knight spoke to journalism students at George Mason University on Thursday, March 28 about the Storify platform.

Journalism Program Coordinator Steve Klein brought Knight to campus to help his students better understand how to fully utilize the medium, and answer any questions about complications.

I had never used Storify before this presentation. Knight walked us through step-by-step how to create a headline and story grafs. He also showed us the social media tool built into the platform and how to effectively use it to supplement our story context.

Knight uses Storify on a daily basis for his job at Hanley Wood, a publishing company. He said a lot of notable media companies are primarily using Storify to produce their stories.

I thoroughly enjoyed the presentation because I had not heard of Storify previously. Now I can’t stop! Creating stories is easy and fun with Storify. It takes me back to when I used to create pages for print stories with Adobe InDesign.

After this tutorial, I decided I’m going to use Storify for my story for this class since I am the editor this round. I think it will help improve the story because it will include social media posts, and multimedia.