Journalism in the Age of Data, by Geoff McGhee "...how can traditional narratives be fused with sophisticated, interactive information displays?"

Geoff McGhee is a journalist who specializes in multimedia and information graphics. He currently works at the Bill Lane Center for the Amercan West at Stanford, where he previously spent a year as a John S. Knight Journalism Fellow at the university, studying data visualization.  


In the following video, Journalism in the Age of Data,  McGhee provides an interesting overview of the ways different disciplines are collaborating-and converging- to create visualizations that communicate data and information in effective and meaningful ways. The video is over 50 minutes long, but worth viewing. 

Info from McGhee's Vimeo site:

"Journalists are coping with the rising information flood by borrowing data visualisation techniques from computer scientists, researchers, and artists.  Some newsrooms are already beginning to retool their staffs and systems to prepare for a future in which data becomes a medium.  But how can traditional narratives be fused with sophisticated, interactive information displays? Watch the full version with annotations and links at datajournalism.stanford.edu "

Journalism in the Age of Data from Geoff McGhee on Vimeo.