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== Use in News Media ==
Explorable explanations are increasingly being created by [[Journalist|journalists]]<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://killscreen.com/articles/your-brain-anxiety-interactive-explanation-nicky-case/|title=Your brain on anxiety: an interactive explanation with Nicky Case|last=Joho|first=Jess|date=2015-09-25|website=Kill Screen|language=en-US|access-date=2019-01-24}}</ref>, sometimes by organisations that formerly focused on [[print news media]]<ref name=":1">{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/04/02/technology/uber-drivers-psychological-tricks.html,%20https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/04/02/technology/uber-drivers-psychological-tricks.html|title=How Uber Uses Psychological Tricks to Push Its Drivers’ Buttons|last=Scheiber|first=Noam|date=2017-04-02|work=The New York Times|access-date=2019-01-21|language=en-US|issn=0362-4331}}</ref><ref name=":2">{{Cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/datablog/ng-interactive/2017/sep/28/hooked-how-pokies-are-designed-to-be-addictive|title=Hooked: how pokies are designed to be addictive|last=Evershed|first=Nick|last2=Ball|first2=Andy|website=the Guardian|language=en|access-date=2019-01-21|last3=Liu|first3=Ri|last4=Davey|first4=Melissa}}</ref> and [[radio]]<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2015/05/21/408234543/will-your-job-be-done-by-a-machine|title=Will Your Job Be Done By A Machine?|website=NPR.org|language=en|access-date=2019-01-21}}</ref>. In 2015, [[FiveThirtyEight]] collaborated with [[The Marshall Project]] to produce an article on prison parole assessment<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/prison-reform-risk-assessment/|title=Should Prison Sentences Be Based On Crimes That Haven’t Been Committed Yet?|last=Barry-Jester|first=Anna Maria|date=2015-08-04|website=FiveThirtyEight|language=en-US|access-date=2019-01-24}}</ref> that included a explorable explanation of the effects of policy changes on prison populations. The article was cited by the [[Columbia Journalism Review]] as an example of how explorable explanations could be used to advance digital storytelling<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.cjr.org/q_and_a/could_explorable_explanations_help_tell_a_new_kind_of_story.php|title=Could ‘explorable explanations’ help tell a new kind of story?|website=Columbia Journalism Review|language=en|access-date=2019-01-24}}</ref>. [[Newsgame|Newsgames]] may be considered explorable explanations<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.robinkwong.com/newsgames-list/|title=A list of recent newsgames|website=www.robinkwong.com|access-date=2019-04-01}}</ref>.
Other newsrooms such as [[Bloomberg Businessweek]], [[The New York Times]], and [[The Guardian]] are also notable for their use of explorable explanations to tell stories, for example covering topics like climate change, drug overdoses, and economics<ref name=":1" /><ref name=":2" /><ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2014/upshot/buy-rent-calculator.html,%20https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2014/upshot/buy-rent-calculator.html|title=Is It Better to Rent or Buy?|last=Bostock|first=Mike|date=2014-05-21|work=The New York Times|access-date=2019-01-24|last2=Carter|first2=Shan|language=en-US|issn=0362-4331|last3=Tse|first3=Archie}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/society/ng-interactive/2015/feb/05/-sp-watch-how-measles-outbreak-spreads-when-kids-get-vaccinated|title=Watch how the measles outbreak spreads when kids get vaccinated – and when they don't|last=Harris|first=Rich|work=The Guardian|access-date=2019-01-25|last2=Popovich|first2=Nadja|language=en-GB|issn=0261-3077|last3=team|first3=Kenton Powell on the Guardian US interactive|last4=Harris|first4=Rich|last5=Popovich|first5=Nadja|last6=team|first6=Kenton Powell on the Guardian US interactive}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2015/03/19/upshot/3d-yield-curve-economic-growth.html,%20https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2015/03/19/upshot/3d-yield-curve-economic-growth.html|title=A 3-D View of a Chart That Predicts The Economic Future: The Yield Curve|last=Aisch|first=Gregor|date=2015-03-18|work=The New York Times|access-date=2019-01-25|last2=Cox|first2=Amanda|language=en-US|issn=0362-4331}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.bloomberg.com/tosv2.html?vid=&uuid=8114cb90-2035-11e9-aa93-a38e0a227405&url=L2dyYXBoaWNzLzIwMTUtd2hhdHMtd2FybWluZy10aGUtd29ybGQv|title=Bloomberg - Are you a robot?|website=www.bloomberg.com|access-date=2019-01-25}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2015-whats-warming-the-world/|title=Bloomberg - What's Really Warming the World?|last=Roston|first=Eric|date=2015-06-24|website=www.bloomberg.com|archive-url=|archive-date=|dead-url=|access-date=2019-01-25}}</ref>. [[FiveThirtyEight]] has also used explorable explanations to cover topics such as gun violence<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://theundefeated.com/features/fivethirtyeight-breaks-down-the-more-than-33000-annual-u-s-gun-deaths/|title=FiveThirtyEight breaks down the more than 33,000 annual U.S. gun deaths|last=Jones|first=Maya A.|date=2016-07-14|website=The Undefeated|language=en-US|access-date=2019-01-25}}</ref> and [[p hacking]]<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/science-isnt-broken/|title=Science Isn’t Broken|last=King|first=Ritchie|date=2015-08-19|website=FiveThirtyEight|language=en-US|access-date=2019-01-25}}</ref>.
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