Tag Archives: New york times

Interactivity in the Online Graphics of The New York Times and The Guardian

Marije Rooze | 06 May 2011, 10:00 am | 1 comment | tags: , , , , , , , , , ,

Almost every story a journalist writes contains the five W’s: who, what, where, why, when. However, in the last two decades the journalistic profession and it’s employer were forced to make some new transformations. These changes have been caused by different reasons but one stands above the others. This one is even so important that Brian Boyer added a sixth…

Cartography of migration flows

Radmila Radojevic | 27 April 2010, 9:23 pm | 5 comments | tags: , , , , , , , , , , ,

It has been acknowledged today that geography and cartography are not neutral or objective scientific practices but are ultimately about relationship between power, space and place. Yet, it was only at the end of 80s /early 90s, with development of critical cartography, that traditional definition of maps as scientific artifacts was challenged. It was argued at the time that maps…

Charles M. Blow at the infographics 2010

Margarida Fonseca | 08 March 2010, 8:42 pm | 3 comments | tags: , , , , , ,

Charles M. Blow was the opening presenter at the Infographics 2010 Conference in Zeist last Friday (March 5th) and in my opinion, one of the best presentations of the day along with the always inspiring work of Catalog Tree.

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Mr. Blow started his presentation by telling an anecdote about a reporter from a big city interviewing…