By Mindy McAdams
You will see something cool here if you upgrade your Flash player.
I came across a graphic showing hospital death rates in the United States (from USA Today), and I’d like to ask you to open it up and — as online folks like to say — play with it for a little while. Below are two screen captures (detail) to pique your interest, and below them, [...]
Follow how a great online news organization follows a big breaking story, at El País.
Here is an early infographic:
The plane crashed about six hours ago, at 2:45 p.m. local time (GMT +2), while taking off at Madrid’s Barajas airport.
Update (6:40 p.m. EDT): The updated animated graphic makes good use of satellite images.
Update (10:45 p.m. EDT): [...]
This graphic is a very nice example of how design for online information presentation can be — and should be — different from print presentation.
It’s a simple concept — compression of space. Because the line for each different swimming event can roll open like a window shade and show us a nice big chart, the [...]
How many people look at an animated infographic on a news Web site?
“I would say 10,000 is a good number for us,” said Keith Claxton, an infographics journalist at the Chicago Tribune.
That would be a great number of pageviews for, say, a post on my little blog. But for a news site on the scale [...]
Aimed at letting people find events they like and manage a personal viewing schedule, the Times’s Olympics Tracker offers a lot more utility than the more traditional schedule grid provided by NBC at its Web site.
Why? Because the NBC grid is “We show you, and you look,” and the NYT tracker is, “You look, you [...]
Mark Luckie has posted screenshots of (and links to) the personal Web sites of 15 journalists. They could be used to inspire journalism students to master the art of self-presentation. Great examples.
15 journalists’ outstanding personal sites
Go on, just have a quick peek. They are very nice sites.
News update junkies, this is for you. The images are screenshots straight from the iPhone screen. You don’t need the new model to run these — just the 2.0 software upgrade.
Mobile News Network, from the Associated Press. “Today in Video” and “Today in Photos” (above, top left) are very cool, although, unfortunately, the quality of [...]
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