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The use of infographics and photography in online journalism
Those in the know: David Kinross, Interactive Designer at The Telegraph
By JENNY STEVENS and BEN WHITELAW We caught up with David Kinross, Interactive Designer and infographics guru at The Telegraph at a Hacks and Hackers event on data visualisation. Some live tweets from the event can be found on our Twitter feed.
VISUALISED: Marriage rates
By JENNY STEVENS As the Office for National Statistics (ONS) published the latest marriage rates for England and Wales yesterday, Seeing Stories thought it would be a good opportunity to experiment with a simple infographic from a large data set. The full data is available from the ONS website, or on the Guardian Data Blog. […]
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Photojournalism: A glimpse inside Fortnum & Mason
March 31, 2011
by srmorrison
By SARAH MORRISON THE POWER OF PHOTOS IN PROTEST: What was perhaps most noticeable about UK Uncut’s peaceful occupation of Fortnum & Mason on Saturday 26 March, the day of the TUC March for the Alternative, was that virtually no press made it inside. Yes, there were one or two freelancers and a handful of […]
Lesons learned from air travel infographics: why simple and accurate is best
By JENNY STEVENS A series of infographics with a consumer focus featured on the Reuters website this week, taken from travel blog Nile Guide. The focus was on the state of air travel and how the customer experience has decreased in the last 60 years. They wanted to show how air travel has changed – […]
Covering the cuts protest: You don’t need an expensive camera to take great photos
March 30, 2011
by benwhitelaw
By BEN WHITELAW This is one of the fantastic shots taken by journalism student Seb Wheeler at Saturday’s cuts protests in London. Seb, a photographer and reporter for news site East London Lines, spoke to seeing stories about the importance of using tools you know well, even if they don’t cost the earth. Amateur journalists […]
Middle East unrest: Guardian interactive timeline
By JENNY STEVENS For those who may have lost track of protests in the Middle East, The Guardian have come up with a handy interactive timeline of Arab and Middle East unrest. Choose a date and scroll over the pins for a concise pop-out story of a particular event, with a link to a longer […]
Cuts protests: is photojournalism objective?
By JENNY STEVENS As we said recently on Seeing Stories, photographs make a breaking news story. To feel close to the action, readers and users want to see it. This weekend the front pages of (almost) all the nationals were dominated by coverage of Saturday’s march against the Government’s public spending cuts. But each newspaper’s […]
VISUALISED: George Osborne’s 2010 and 2011 Budget speeches
March 26, 2011
by benwhitelaw
BY BEN WHITELAW 2010 Budget speech – 24th March 2010 2011 Budget speech – 23 March 2011 Above are George Osborne’s two Budget speeches as Chancellor visualised into as word cloud generator on Many Eyes, showing the words used most frequently. The results could not be more astonishing. As you can see, the 2010 speech […]
Japan’s earthquake tragedy: the best and worst infographics
March 19, 2011
by benwhitelaw
BY BEN WHITELAW The news coverage of Japanese earthquake, and especially the first hand video of the resulting tsunami, has been extremely tough to watch for the sheer scale of the disaster. But the magnitude of the earthquake and the subsequent economic issues have led many media companies to turn to infographic and visualised data […]
Covering Libya: Do we need a mashup?
February 25, 2011
by srmorrison
By SARAH MORRISON Before Robert Fisk provided the first dispatch from Libya for The Independent on Thursday, there had been something of a media blackout imposed on the country. Despite the fact that there were reports that more than 1,000 protestors had died in the clash with security forces to end Gaddafi’s 42-year rule, websites […]
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April 1, 2011
by Jenny
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