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News & Tips: Announcing
mobile-ready page embeds


Hello from Team DocumentCloud, and welcome to our inaugural News & Tips newsletter! As a subscriber, you'll hear first about new features and get helpful tips on using DocumentCloud. For this first issue, we’re excited to tell you about a big improvement for publishing documents on mobile devices:
A lightweight, responsive viewer for pages

What it is: Page Embed is our new embed option that highlights a single page (including your annotations) and sizes responsively so you can publish easily across desktop and mobile.

How to use it: Select your document in the workspace, then choose “Embed a Page” under the “Publish” menu. The wizard works just the same way as those for documents and notes. For details, see the page embed section in our Help documentation.

Why we’re launching it: News readership is rapidly shifting to mobile devices, and telling stories with documents needs to work well across a range of platforms. Page Embed strips a lot of the cruft from our main viewer, making it ideal not only for mobile but also for embedding in longform stories, news applications and custom designs.

Learn more about why we built Page Embed at the DocumentCloud blog and please share your thoughts.
Searching UNC scandal records, annotating the Pope’s speech, and more ...

We love that DocumentCloud helps journalists do great work. Here are recent examples of DocumentCloud in action that caught our eye:

Search Thousands of UNC Scandal RecordsWRAL-TV: Using the DocumentCloud API, the team at WRAL built a custom tool that lets readers search more than 200,000 pages of documents related to a University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill athletic and academic scandal. DocumentCloud notes are used to guide readers to key information reporters found in the collection.

Inside Pope Francis’ Address to Congress, The New York Times: While highlighting passages from Pope Francis' recent address to the U.S. Congress, the Times linked to annotated portions of the original Papal document. It also used DocumentCloud embeds to publish the address in six languages.

VozData, La Nación: Built on the open-source CrowData tool, La Nación's platform uses DocumentCloud embeds and a data-entry application to crowdsource data locked in documents. Launched in 2014, most recently La Nación is using the platform to check up on election results.

The New American Slavery, Buzzfeed: Its investigation into the U.S. H-2 visa program found workers at risk for abuse — deprived of fair pay, imprisoned, starved, beaten, raped, and threatened with deportation. The story's findings are painstakingly cited with dozens of DocumentCloud notes.

See more great examples of DocumentCloud in action on our Featured Reporting page. And tell us about yours.
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