By Mindy McAdams
You will see something cool here if you upgrade your Flash player.
I have called it one of the best information graphics ever, and now it’s won the Peter Sullivan award at Malofiej 16, the greatest annual honor in the world for infographics. So if you have never experienced it, please have a look:
Deadly Rampage at Virginia Tech (The New York Times)
It was produced on deadline and [...]
Not only is this amusing animation directly related to a news story of great local interest in Detroit (the city’s mayor embroiled in scandal), but it was produced and posted in ONE DAY! Kudos to the Freep!
(Thanks to Sue B-B for the link!)
Background of the story here.
Every year since 2001, Agence France-Presse has syndicated an awesome Flash package to paying clients such as The New York Times. Like every cycling fan, I’m pretty disillusioned by all the doping controversies surrounding the great race. But doping aside, for me, there’s no TV sports experience that even comes close to watching those men [...]
A nice story-as-graphic from USA Today:
The future of car safety is avoiding crashes
Yeah, I know, it doesn’t sound sexy. But it incorporates video and informative animations and text in a classy, clean layout, and it’s nice and big — but not TOO big. The three tabs at the top organize the story neatly.
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The incredibly talented Laith Bahrani (he of considerable fame for the JCB Song, about which a complete cult has developed) is now featured on MediaStorm with his latest music video (hmm, a bit of a departure for MediaStorm, eh?) — Creep, by Radiohead! WOW!
Don’t click unless you are an animation fan.
Special treat for Flash Timeline [...]
MTV made a Flash game to explain some facts about the deadly situation in Sudan: Darfur Is Dying. News junkies: Check out this informative package from mtvU about Sudan. I just found this today. Looks like there’s a lot of material here that I can use in classes about online journalism.
Technorati tags: journalism | [...]
The score: Spain, 4, Ukraine, 0. Very nice graphic work. Each goal is animated, and if you use the menu to turn on the audio, you’ll hear the Spanish announcer giving commentary. They also have a good Flash grid of the standings.
Related post: World Cup Coverage in Flash
Technorati tags: sports | Flash journalism | Flash [...]
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