https://partnews.mit.edu/2013/02/27/the-direction-of-news/ Treating newsgathering as an engineering problem... since 2012! Tue, 28 Jan 2014 16:03:21 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.2 https://partnews.mit.edu/2013/02/27/the-direction-of-news/#comment-4385 Thu, 28 Feb 2013 02:07:14 +0000 http://partnews.brownbag.me/?p=2025#comment-4385 This is a great point. Have you seen the “Snow Fall” piece that the NY Times did recently? It’s packed with interesting visuals. http://www.nytimes.com/projects/2012/snow-fall/#/?part=tunnel-creek
It’s funny how even radio, the most “non-visual” media of them all, is starting to incorporate visuals into stories every chance they get. Radiolab, for example, frequently refers listeners to their blog where they feature a ton of interesting images. They also actively promote listener contributions of designs, photographs, etc. I agree as well that being a critical consumer of images and graphics is becoming increasingly important and should be taught in schools (and also to adults! )

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