Man lost at sea found alive, clinging to capsized boat off Florida coast
I found this online multimedia journalism story while scrolling through the website globalnews.ca. This story covers a 62 year old man who was missing for 2 days at sea and was ultimately found clinging onto the remains of his boat 86 miles off shore. This article was written by Josh K. Elliot of Global News.
Print: One image shows the man who was found at sea, Stuart Bee, climbing out of the water and onto safety. Another image shows the men who rescued Bee and another image shows Bee before the incident. The last image shown is a picture of the boat that Bee was latched onto for almost 2 days.
Audio: There is no audio present in this article.
Video: There are no videos in this article but videos of Stuart Bee can be found on sites like YouTube.
Interactivity: There are many links that can take you to other websites to learn more about this story as well as a link to a twitter post that shows the men who rescued Stuart Bee and an actual photo of Stuart himself.
Main News Element:
Interest: I think the main news element used in this online multimedia journalism story is Interest because the story I picked is more about entertainment than actual usefulness or relevancy. Although this story could be relevant to fishermen or people who work with the ocean, most people will just find this story interesting rather than gaining anything useful from it.
Sub News Element:
Novelty: This story is very unusual and does not occur often. A story like this will likely attract attention from most people even if they have no correlation to anything involved.
Proximity: The largest audience that will likely care for a story like this are the people in local towns or cities or even just citizens of Florida as a whole.