By now you’ve probably read about the shuttering of the Rocky Mountain News, which foundered under rising costs and falling revenues.
The Denver Post put together a photo tribute to is scrappy rival.
Staff at The Rocky produced their own thoughtful wrap video.
Final Edition from Matthew Roberts on Vimeo.
The Rocky’s closure means Denver now has just one [...]
Categories: General Journalism
Tagged: business, closure, newspaper, Rocky Mountain News, The Denver Post, video
As promised in a previous post on learning information graphics (sometimes shortened to “infographics”), I’m posting my raw notes from Day 1 of an information graphics workshop taught last month by Alberto Cairo and Xaquin G.V., two leading practitioners.
Above, Alberto Cairo teaches a data visualization seminar at Medialab-Prado in Madrid in 2007.
Xaquin wrote [...]
Categories: Data + Graphics, General Journalism
Tagged: Alberto Cairo, Beyond Bootcamp, infographics, infographics tools, information visualization, interactive graphics, Online Infographics, Xaquin G.V.
Headline writing has always been part of the craft of journalism. Online, it’s even more important as it catches reader attention and affects Google page rank.
Those who follow me on Twitter will sometimes see an update that begins, “The hed made me read it.”
In doing so, I’m trying to point out just how important it [...]
Categories: General Journalism
For weeks, I’ve been trying to figure out the best way to put my notes from the “Creating Effective Online Infographics” workshop here on Ricochet.
I started looking at examples from some of my favorite information graphics and visualization blogs, including FlowingData, Cool Infographics and Infographics News.
The more I looked, the more I realized there was [...]
Categories: General Journalism
Tagged: Alberto Cairo, Beyond Bootcamp, infographics, information graphics, Online Infographics, Ursus Wehrli
This weekend several members and supporters of the Society for News Design met to rethink and rebuild its multifaceted website. The site will have a new look, new features and better integration among its many parts.
Chris Amico’s Tools for News is now part of the SND.org website. You’ll find it at toolkit.snd.org.
William Couch is comping [...]
Categories: General Journalism, Tips + Techniques