A new single-issue platform for journalism, providing unique depth, continuity and understanding to news, one crisis at a time
Coda Story is designed by an all-star team of journalists, photographers, film makers and San Francisco-based design firm Method, to relinquish breaking news in favour of dedicated, thorough reporting on individual crises, which will remain the focus of the site for up to a year.

Coda have created a new fusion of editorial and design which allows connection and context within a crisis to work as hard as the journalism itself. Stories sit on a timeline, organised by themes, allowing readers to follow events both thematically and chronologically, and to track trends rather than just events.

It’s this layout that makes the platform groundbreaking as it enables readers to develop a better understanding of news stories by making sense of the causes, effects and continuing issues.

Online news platforms are constantly trying to squeeze stories into cursory digestible nuggets, to the point where often they barely hold any informative worth.

Meanwhile, print publishers have been slowing down their output (to the point where Delayed Gratification aims to be ‘last to break the news’). It’s interesting to see an online platform like Coda now taking a slow, holistic approach to news stories.