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Our Solution?
The negativity in news these days is one of the many things that is killing this industry. With the advent of the 24-hour-news cycle, viewers are constantly witnessing death, war and politics, right in their own living rooms. And the public has made it clear: they’re sick of it. Solutions journalism is… well… the solution…
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Don’t Judge a Paper by its Front Page. Or Do?
First impressions are huge… and there’s multiple opportunities for a news outlet to make them to an audience. Maybe it’s the lead story on your front page. Maybe it’s the top story in your 5 o’clock news. Perhaps the intro that rolls right before that? But I think the most intentional “first impression” that news…
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Experience Economy and The News
We all know what the news is right? If you’re here and somehow you don’t… I think I’ve failed at my job. But there’s another question we need to be asking ourselves. What is news? No, that’s not a joke. I mean, it’s not really a product, not a commodity. Not even really a service.…
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Predicting the Future
Imagine it’s 1980. You crack open your morning newspaper and find a column. It’s filled with 10-year-old’s answers to what could come to be in the next decade. The first one reads: “Stereos with memory computers that allow you to just call out the name of a song and hear it instantly.” Ellen Lupton in…
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Worth a Thousand Words
Photojournalism is often talked about like it’s different from or more niche than other forms of journalism. But it’s really just as common as your run-of-the-mill news article or package. I mean, there’s almost always some kind of photo or graphic accompanying any given news article. And photojournalism is one of the most common forms…
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And in the end
To conclude my last couple months of research on data visualization– I undertook creating a long-form, data-driven article about the rise of social isolation. I find this topic interesting, because it’s something I feel like I’ve witnessed happen in real time for myself and those I’m close with, and in recent time, I think I’ve…
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All the Same
I think it’s fair to say that all data visualizations kind of look the same. It’s usually the same 3 or 4 types of charts, the only difference is really in color, and it can get a little boring. Maybe that’s a good thing. Data visualizations are all about pattern recognition– that’s why they’re a…
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A Week in my Inbox
No, that doesn’t mean your email will spend a week sitting in my email inbox before I respond. I’m talking about tracking a week in my inbox. What do I send? What do I receive? What’s it about? Do I send an email back? Do I receive another after that? You get the point. This…
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Hello Down There
As routine as data visuals have become in our daily lives… none are more universally used and loved as a map. From the GPS we use on our phones almost constantly to the printed layout of an unfamiliar building– maps are everywhere. Not only are they an incredibly useful tool for us, but they are…
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Just an Observation
There’s so much we do in a given week, so many decisions we make, and so many things happen passively to us. So often, we don’t notice any of it. A huge part of my life is music, but it’s something I’m never really tuned into. It’s just become such a mundane part of me,…