Innovations in Newspapers: Maps and Inforgraphics are better than fake pictures and no facts
Friday, 22 August 2008, 07:12
Juan Antonio Giner on using stock file images to illustrate news stories like the Madrid air crash: "It’s decoration, not journalism".
NYTimes.com: A History of World Records - Interactive Graphic
Thursday, 21 August 2008, 06:23
Interactive charts that show "how world records in Summer Olympic events have fallen (or risen) in the past century. Scales have been adjusted so percentage changes are comparable, and, to show how certain records compare to each other, speed is sometimes plotted instead of time. "
FlowingData: 3 Worthwhile Alternatives to the Pie Chart
Wednesday, 20 August 2008, 07:34
Flowing Data presents some alternatives to the hideous pie chart…
Tuesday, 17 June 2008, 15:00
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New York Times magazine story plotted on a map: "A culinary scorecard for all 30 major league baseball stadiums."
Saturday, 19 April 2008, 10:39
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Nice chart showing Google’s ad revenue relative to other media sectors. "Only regional newspapers (forecast to be worth £2.33bn in 2008 and the commerical TV sector (£3.5bn…) still lie ahead."
Saturday, 5 January 2008, 11:23
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A nice graphic explaining how Iowa’s caucus system works…
Sunday, 14 October 2007, 10:43
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"At the Making Data Webby session, [Adrian] Holovaty spoke to an audience of about 75 SND attendees on how to turn the data that visual journalist receive into usable information for the web."
Wednesday, 22 August 2007, 10:20
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"FT.com’s interactive feature maps the estimated 233bn barrels of oil equivalent, and illustrates the region with a picture slideshow and audio narration by experts."
Friday, 10 August 2007, 08:08
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Interactive map of homocide victims in Los Angeles, based on county coroner data and Times research.
Tuesday, 3 July 2007, 17:46
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Edward Tufte: "Megan Jaegerman produced some of the best news graphics ever while working at The New York Times from 1990 to 1998. .,, Megan has the soul of a news reporter, who happens to use graphs, tables, and illustrations–as well as words–to explai
Friday, 18 May 2007, 09:15
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El Pais and El Mundo show how to do online election coverage: "while British papers complain about low turn-outs and voter apathy, the Spanish papers are taking their democracy seriously and doing all they can to inform and involve their readers…"
Tuesday, 17 April 2007, 09:42
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The New York Times used interactive graphics to illustrate the Virginia Tech shooting story online.
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