New Tools Tell Vegas Story

A multimedia project chronicling the history of Las Vegas has been launched by a regional newspaper.

Staff and university interns worked for almost six months on the large-scale feature, which tells the story of Vegas and many of its big name associates.

“The History of Fabulous Las Vegas, Nevada” boasts video documentaries, archive film, a timeline and an interactive map introducing the city’s many casinos.

It also has podcasts, hundreds of archive photographs as well as new and “vintage” articles about all aspects of the city, from its relations to the Mob to atomic bomb tests.

And the crowning glory of the project has to be the 11-part video documentary, “Boomtown: The Story Behind Sin City”, which charts the development of Vegas decade-by-decade.

The newspaper’s new media managing editor explains the practicalities behind putting the history together in this post to the Digital Edge blog.