Telling the story, graphically
Sometimes a simple infographic tells the whole story. With absolutely no need for animation.
In this case, the graphic that ran in the print newspaper was perfectly good for use with the story online. Journalism organizations need to encourage their graphics department and their online producers to think about this, to think graphically for every story they tell. The beauty here is that the graphic really extracts the core of the story and represents it very clearly. That’s the hallmark of a skillful news-graphic artist (in this case, Karen Yourish).
The task of journalism is to help people understand the world. Good graphics go a long way in that direction.
Source: “A Broken Record Store: Industry Icon Tower Is Bankrupt and on the Block,” by Yuki Noguchi. The Washington Post, Wednesday, August 23, 2006, page D01.
Technorati tags: journalism | online media | infographics | information graphics | storytelling
I couldn’t agree more. At The Roanoke Times, we often run info-graphics but enlarge them using the fantastic “Lightbox” script.
August 24, 2006 at 4:29 pm