What Frontline’s Team Learned Producing Its New VR Documentary

Virtual reality journalism is still so new that it’s not yet clear what works and what doesn’t on a broad scale. There are anecdotal bits of evidence, but no sure best practices. Nonetheless, a new report out from the Tow Center for Digital Journalism, VR production company Secret Location, and PBS’s Frontline aims to draw some recommendations and conclusions from the production and release of Frontline’s first-ever VR documentary, “Ebola Outbreak: A Virtual Journey.”