Telling news with graphics and extending your shelf-lifeas a graphic journalist

Jasso Lamberg (FI) University of Reading (UK) & EU Business School Munich (DE)

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Presented at the QVED/QVIG conference in Munich 27 February 2016.

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5 Ws + 1 HWho? ——→ photograph / drawing / factbox What? ——→ diagram / illustration Where? ——→ locator map When? ——→ timeline Why? ——→ factbox How? ——→ diagram / illustration / factbox

Data + shape = meaning

No, you can’t ‘just jazz it up’

No such thing as neutral

Don’t be just an illustrator

writer

illustrator

slide idea borrowed and adapted from Francesco Franchi’s QVED presentation on 25 Feb 2016

Be a transformer, not a designerWriter asks: How do I best tell this with text? Designer asks: How do I best tell this with graphics?

Transformer asks:

What is the best way to tell this?

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