Shorthand

“I like the fact that we can experiment with Shorthand. I like the challenge of making something which nobody else has done. We've pushed the boundaries of what we can do with Shorthand, and we continue to push them further.”

“Our correspondents see how great their colleagues’ pieces look and want the same treatment too.”

“It's become common parlance within the newsroom now. You hear foreign correspondents in the field saying, "Oh, I'm going to have to do such and such. I really want to do a Shorthand on this."”

“We use Shorthand to make the most of our premium content. It will be something that we'll discuss in terms of the treatment of a story: Is it a long read with a standard CMS template or is it a Shorthand?”

“There was no bespoke design. It was all built completely using Shorthand’s built-in features. It’s a classic example of Shorthand allowing us to create visually engaging stories extremely quickly.”

“We turned around a piece on the red carpet, with multiple images and text in different formats, in ninety minutes. It was a really engaging, visually-rich piece, and we produced it in no time.”

“We can create premium stories in a couple of days — or even a day if we want to — and it just has a lot more impact. We can do stand-out pieces whenever we want to, really.”

“Our CMS gives us templates for producing standard articles which have text and an image, but it’s quite rigid. There's not much flexibility to build outside of that.”

“The beauty of Shorthand is that it’s flexible. From the beginning, we were able to produce stories which were far more visually engaging than our own CMS allows us to do.”

“This story was an extremely effective vertical experience. We used the shape of the map of the Nile to carry the reader down the story. I’m also proud of how we integrated video into the experience without slowing down the load time. It was a really strong way of telling what was a fantastic original story.”

“What I really loved about this story is that it felt like a proper mobile-native experience, flowing smoothly down the screen.”

“Shorthand is great for when we are doing additional analysis or diving deep into a particular issue,”

“I thought the product looked really smart, and we haven't looked back from there. Shorthand has transformed how we produce our digital longform journalism.”

“These bespoke stories take two-to-three months of developer time to build. We just haven't got the scope to do that. It was clear that it was far too time-consuming to have developers build these stories every single time.”

“As an organisation, we wanted to do more long-form, high-impact, and visually rich storytelling.”

“We can create premium stories in a couple of days — or even a day if we want to — and it just has a lot more impact.”

“Our Brit Awards story is a classic example of Shorthand allowing us to create visually engaging stories extremely quickly.”

“Shorthand has transformed how we produce our digital longform journalism.”

“"Shorthand's pretty airtight compared to a lot of other programs that I've used",”

“"What we produce on Shorthand we consider a higher tier product."”

“"It's always been fixed in a timely manner, so that's good,"”

“"Producing an immersive with Shorthand hardly ever goes off the rails,"”

“"I think I picked it up in a day when I first started working with it,"”

“"Very easy to use and intuitive. We can load the brand's elements in."”

“"It's not like a social media post that you might only see for a short amount of time; that website will exist forever."”