Visualizing data often makes good stories. I wondered how stories themselves could provide data for visualizations. You often hear of the ideal graph of story structure–the classic three-part profile with an introduction to the conflict leading to a climax, and ending with the resolution. This structure would be represented by a slow-rising hill ending [...]
The CUNY Graduate School of Journalism recently assumed the editorial leadership NYTimes.com’s The Local community web site, which covers the Brooklyn neighborhoods of Fort Greene and Clinton Hill.
The plan is to build on The Times’ work, which first launched in the spring 2009, and to make it more scalable, generating greater [...]
Most of so-called mainstream media has sharply reduced or outright eliminated its foreign newsgathering operations in the past five years. But in the supposed ashes of the crash burning of foreign reporting some see a bright future.
Dance’s core philosophy of design is simple: Get out of the way of the content and create interactive graphics designed to keep viewers engaged.
Join Gabriel Dance, senior multimedia producer at The New York Times, as he discusses how interactive graphics are developed for one of the most popular news sites in the world.
(UPDATE 10/4/09: The New York Times received an Online Journalism Award on Saturday, Oct. 3, for its Interactive Graphics, besting MSNBC.com and Wired.com. The category was [...]
Writing captions for photographs displayed on the Web has many similarities to writing captions for photographs displayed in a newspaper–except we can add a lot more information.
I attended a talk in NYC put together by the American Society of Picture Professionals titled “Bridging the gap between still and moving images.” It was a presentation by the husband and wife team of Ed Kashi and Julie Winokur in which they detailed their evolution from photographer and writer respectively to collaborative multimedia storytellers.
Here [...]