@innovations: Washington Post on news innovation, Moving away from Flash: A look at JavaScript drawing libraries
Friday, 3 June 2011, 10:06
"Last week we published a graphic that compared four federal budget proposals through a series of charts. We used the jQuery library Flot to draw simple, interactive line charts that showed how the debt and deficit would change under the different…
Texas Tribune: Texas Senate Redistricting Maps
Thursday, 12 May 2011, 21:59
Excellent interactive before/after redistricting maps.
Online Journalism Blog: Bella Hurrell on data journalism and the BBC News Specials Team
Tuesday, 22 February 2011, 11:58
"Data is only useful if it is personal – I want to find out about schools in my area, restaurants near me and so on – or when it reveals something remarkable. The duck pond debacle from MPs expenses data or the Iraq civilian death records kept…
Journalism.co.uk: Telegraph to recruit multimedia staff following site redesign
Thursday, 11 November 2010, 17:21
Ed Roussel: "We are interested in recruiting, not an army, but a small number of people in interactive graphics and looking at what we can do to do a better job with video. … The three biggest challenges for us editorially in the next year will be multimedia, multi-device tablets and smart phones and social media."
Applied Works: The Times iPad graphics
Monday, 9 August 2010, 18:14
"Applied Works is producing an ongoing series of interactive graphics to support The Times’ recently-launched iPad app."
The Wall Blog: The Times points way with new infographics for the iPad
Monday, 9 August 2010, 18:13
"This is pretty cool, Applied Works is producing a number of interactive infographics for The Times’ recently-launched iPad app. It is another pointer to how some of the really great stuff we are going to see digitally away from the web."
Nieman Journalism Lab: Play Paywall!, the new web game sweeping the newspaper industry
Tuesday, 26 January 2010, 17:49
Genius way to illustrate the conundrum facing every news executive thinking of raising a subscription barrier: "Paywall!, our revenue game … allows you to explore the situation at the [New York] Times or at any other news site. …"
Innovative Interactivity: El Mundo wowed me with their Haiti multimedia coverage
Tuesday, 26 January 2010, 08:54
"I have been tracking multimedia work documenting the Haiti earthquake since I wrote about the initial coverage I saw two weeks ago, and I can say without a doubt that El Mundo’s multimedia coverage is the best I’ve seen thus far."
Society for News Design: The making of the New York Times’s Netflix graphic
Saturday, 23 January 2010, 12:16
How the New York Times built an interactive graphic based on 1.9 million records of video rental queues obtained from Netflix.
Ustream.tv: Aron Pilhofer Interviewed by Associate Professor Cindy Royal at Texas State University
Tuesday, 24 February 2009, 00:12
Aron Pilhofer talks about the New York Times' various interactive data projects. Particularly interesting idea: present political news in the form of Facebook updates. Also, on news revenue models: "We shouldn't be looking the iTunes, we should be looking for iPod. We should be looking for great platforms."
New York Magazine: The Renegades at the New York ‘Times’
Monday, 12 January 2009, 09:05
A look at the Interactive Newsroom Technologies group, the New York Times' team of "journalists-slash-developer": "This team would “cut across all the desks,” providing a corrective to the maddening old system, in which each innovation required months for permissions and design. The new system elevated coders into full-fledged members of the Times—deputized to collaborate with reporters and editors, not merely to serve their needs."
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…
