Nerd Journalism: How Data And Digital Technology Transformed News Graphics

by Alberto Cairo

The goal of this project is to explore the changes news information graphics have experienced in the past two decades. One of them is the kind of graphics visual journalists favor. In the past, they were mostly pictorial/figurative explanations and descriptions, and their central elements used to be illustrations, photographs, locator maps, etc. In the present, abstract representations of data are much more common.

272 pages, ebook

Published June 1, 2017

About the author

Alberto Cairo is the Knight Chair in Visual Journalism at the School of Communication of the University of Miami. The author of several textbooks, he consults with companies and institutions like Google and the Congressional Budget Office on visualizations. He lives in Miami, Florida.

Reviews

[Lawrence · Rating 4 out of 5]

Very interesting and thorough -- chapter 2's history / lit review of news graphics is particularly rich and the sort of thing I could imagine assigning in a grad class. Chapter 1 is also a useful and efficient introduction to terminology from the 'journalism' perspective.