Sharing data isn't enough. As journalists, it's your job to be the conduit between that data and your readers - you need to make it make sense in terms your readers, who aren't always experts, can understand.

1. Visual Communication
Jim Streisel, MJE
Carmel (IN) High School
@CarmelJim
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2. What’s the best
method to share info?
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3. A story?
Streisel travels extensively over summer
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4. Maybe…
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5. …but sometimes a
story isn’t the answer.
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6. Other options
WhereIWent
St. Petersburg, FL: 1,030 miles
St. Louis, MO: 263 miles
Myrtle Beach, SC: 782 miles
Columbia, MO: 379 miles
Lincoln, NE: 663 miles
Lansing, MI: 248 miles
TOTAL: 3,365 miles x 2 = 6,730 miles
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7. Other options
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8. Other options
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9. Other options
1030
263
782379
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St.Petersburg,FL
MyrtleBeach,SCColumbia, MO
Lincoln, NE
Lansing, MISt. Louis, MO
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10. Other options
6,730miles
3,075 miles
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11. Other options
6.14 inches
MyTrip = $69,440,140
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12. Other options
240,000 miles
35.6 x my trip
My trip
6,730 miles
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13. Useful information
+ Good design
Awesome graphic(we hope)
From Reuben Stern, University of Missouri
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14. Ask: Is your time
well spent making
this graphic? Is it
worth visualizing it?
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15. Good information
+Good design
+Smart thinking
Awesome Graphic(probably)
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16. Why am I doing
this graphic?
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17. To show where
things are.
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18. To show when
things happened.
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19. To show how
something works.
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20. To show how things
relate to each other.
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21. To show how big
things are. (and see how they look)
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22. To show what words
cannot explain.
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23. To show a
complicated process.
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24. To have fun.
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25. Question: Does the
graphic accomplish
what we want?
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26. Question: Does the
graphic enhance the
angle of the story?
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27. Question: Does the
graphic replace the
written story?
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