By Mindy McAdams
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Xaquin Gonzalez Veira compared online news organizations’ maps of the California fires last week. Gonzalez, the assistant art director at Newsweek who is responsible for the magazine’s online interactive graphics, writes his blog in Spanish, so I have taken the liberty of translating and paraphrasing his post: California en llamas (California in flames).
Gonzalez had [...]
… at Clicked — a blog from MSNBC.com that’s about breaking news online.
Clicked offers a wide-ranging look at who is covering the fires, and how they’re doing it.
Update (10:32 a.m.): USA Today has two very cool fire features online — a continually updated fire map, and an explanatory graphic that shows how that map is [...]
CBS News 8 is Web publishing TV graphics of the huge fires in southern California.
They replaced the whole home page with fire coverage. Nice breaking news work online — from a TV operation!
Tip via Lost Remote (other sites doing same; see detailed Google Map from LATimes.com).
One of the nice things you can do online (that you can’t do well at all in a printed newspaper) is gather up a big bunch of stories and present them as an orderly set, a mini library. I’ve written before how sometimes these collections come off as disorderly warehouses. Today’s example is the opposite: [...]
Online crime maps are local-local-local to the nth degree. Put a database behind a crime map, and it updates itself.
Danny Sanchez has created a wonderful list of these maps (20 at last count). Go and get schooled.
When The New York Times tackled the significant story of environmental consequences of China’s economic development, the producers bundled the print story together with three typical online media forms on the Web site: an audio slideshow, a video, and a graphic two-fer containing a lovely interactive map and a helpful animated graph.
Choking on Growth: [...]
A really nice-looking Flash map at the Miami Herald shows what a good artist and a good Flash designer can do when they put their talents together. You have a very pretty map of South America and Africa from Marco Ruiz, and very easy-to-use layover information boxes called up by buttons, thanks to the Flash [...]
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