Graphic Research

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• Graphic Research
• Mike Knoop- News Research Editor

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What kind of graphics we do

• Timeline

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What kind of graphics we do

• Fact box

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What kind of graphics we do

• Statistics

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What is good about graphics?

• Most obvious way we receive credit in the paper

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What is good about graphics?

• Work with whole newsroom, including designers and
  artists

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What is good about graphics?

• Fun to be creative

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What is bad about graphics?

• Perception that if we arent doing a graphic we
  arent busy
• Can be very time consuming
• Amount of info
• How we have to get info
• How much massaging info needs
• Workflow issues

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How it is supposed to work?

• Reporter/ editor perspective

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How it is supposed to work?

• Artists perspective

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How it is supposed to work?

• News researchers perspective
• Reporter or preferably their editor assigns
  graphic
• We send content to person who assigned graphic
  and copy pertinent editors/ reporters
• Editor makes content available for artists

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Workflow issues

• Too much work done in embryonic stage
• No real sense of ownership
• Get lost
• Sunday budget
• Graphics for wire stories
• Stories held day after day

• Investigate 930-1130
• For me it meansless research, more editor
• Follow up
• Why
• Where
• When

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Archiving

• Text archive
• Graphics book or microfilm
• PDF archive

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Blessings

• Your file graphics
• Text archive
• Research request database
• Access to other file graphics
• Communicate with team

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Conclusion

• Graphics should obviously be a product of News
  Research
• Shepherd the process from idea to paper
• Talk em up