This was a complex project that brought together a series of stories gathered from the length and breadth of New Zealand.

Reporter David Fisher and visual journalist Mike Scott spent three weeks on the road traveling north from Bluff to find out what we’re thinking ahead of the general election.

As well as a series of diaries we published seven stories focused on topics ranging from Tourism and the Economy to Youth and Maori. These were produced in Shorthand.

In a first for NZME, myself and data journalist Chris Knox designed and built an interactive graphic to help navigate all of the content. The project was given its own landing page on the NZ Herald where the interactive sits at the top of the page introducing the reader to the whole project. It was also embedded into each of the Shorthand stories to encourage the reader to continue to explore the series.