Infographics in Journalism

Infographics, which are essentially a combination of images and text, have evolved into a popular means of communication on many media platforms. They are particularly useful for demonstrating more complex information, presenting data and even jazzing up boring (but important) information. Infographics are a great tool for investigative journalists as it provides an interesting and engaging means of dishing out important facts or evidence in the context of their article.

Designing an infographic is quite an exact act, but seems to be growing as a necessary skill for modern journalists. Not only do they have to be a designer but a content writer as well, to produce a seamless combination that works together to impart knowledge on the audience.

For example, here’s an infographic that compares fast food advertising with the real meal! This one did not require much text as in this case, a picture really does paint a thousand words.

 

Finally, this is my attempt at an infographic for another of my journalism courses. My article was about people using memes as a form of vandalism and so I used Twitter Archivist to get an idea of how topical the phenomenon of memes was and what people were saying about it.

 

 

If you want to check out some more interesting infographics go to this site: http://visual.ly/