By Mindy McAdams
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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 [...]
A useful and illuminating site I used to love has risen, phoenix-like, from its ashes.
Interactive Narratives is a database of links to, and descriptions of, some of the best examples of multimedia journalism and online news design. Redesigned and easier to use, it will likely be welcomed by everyone who loves this kind of work.
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 [...]
One of our journalism students, Ryan Moulton, is largely self-taught in Flash, although he’s now learning more about it in a course taught by one of our grad students, Dave Stanton.
Here’s the team graphic Ryan put up on the student daily newspaper site, in time for the University of Florida varsity baseball season opener: Baseball [...]
As newsrooms everywhere struggle to adapt to the digital information environment, everybody in the newsroom needs to gain some multimedia literacy.
At the basic level, that means you understand what the media are suited for. Even if you do not know how to make an audio slideshow, you must understand what kinds of stories work well [...]
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