visualizing news - the future of journalism cardiff 2013
DESCRIPTION
Visualizing news is considered an apt way to deal with two challenges of modern journalism: disclosing big data and presenting complex information in a way that is easily to comprehend. Newsrooms try their hand at it, and are figuring out how to organize production of information visualizations effectively. This study delves into reported challenges for the production of news visualizations and states, in accordance with executed case studies, that the introduction of information visualization in the media asks for a convergence of journalistic and visual thinking skills, a more iterative news production process and a revised view on the function of news per se.TRANSCRIPT
VISUALIZING NEWS
MAKE IT WORK
G e r a rd S m i t , Ya e l d e H a a n & L a u r a B u i j s
FRONTPAGES INTERNATIONAL NEWSPAPERS AUGUST 30
FRONTPAGES INTERNATIONAL NEWSPAPERS AUGUST 30
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RQ
What are the
decisive factors
that make news
visualizations
work for the
different people
involved?
METHOD
Literature study
Expert interviews
Case studies
RESULTS
Individual• skills
Groups• mindset
Organization• structure
SKILLS
writing
designing
programming
data mining
MINDSET
frustrating hierarchy
no common language
lack of common ground
STRUCTURE
pace
linearity
distance
support
CONCLUSION
storyvisualtext
skillsmindset
structure
THANK YOU
G e r a rd S m i t , Ya e l d e H a a n & L a u r a B u i j s
University of Applied Sciences Utrecht, the
Netherlands