Storytelling is a powerful tool for journalists to represent reality and communicate it to the public. With the emergence of digital technology, journalists have begun to take advantage of new media formats, including audio, video, data visualization, graphic animations, virtual/augmented reality, computer algorithms, and games, in their storytelling. Of all emerging digital journalism storytelling, storytelling with data visualization has gained prominence in newsrooms and popularity among audiences. Data visualization has become an integral part of the final presentation of a data-driven story. Although there have been numerous studies on data journalism practices, interactive features, visual data elements, and archiving solutions, there has been relatively little research conducted on strategies and techniques to incorporate data visualization into journalism storytelling. Based on previous literature on narrative visualization and visualization techniques, this chapter seeks to fill this gap, providing journalists with a better understanding of how to use data visual presentations in their storytelling and ultimately create more powerful communicative tools.

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Telling a Story with Graphs: How to Apply Narrative Visualization Strategies and Visualization Techniques in Journalistic Storytelling

  • Zhao Peng

摘要

Storytelling is a powerful tool for journalists to represent reality and communicate it to the public. With the emergence of digital technology, journalists have begun to take advantage of new media formats, including audio, video, data visualization, graphic animations, virtual/augmented reality, computer algorithms, and games, in their storytelling. Of all emerging digital journalism storytelling, storytelling with data visualization has gained prominence in newsrooms and popularity among audiences. Data visualization has become an integral part of the final presentation of a data-driven story. Although there have been numerous studies on data journalism practices, interactive features, visual data elements, and archiving solutions, there has been relatively little research conducted on strategies and techniques to incorporate data visualization into journalism storytelling. Based on previous literature on narrative visualization and visualization techniques, this chapter seeks to fill this gap, providing journalists with a better understanding of how to use data visual presentations in their storytelling and ultimately create more powerful communicative tools.