ABSTRACT
For more than 20 years, newspapers andmagazines have been working to perfect the art of information graphics reporting, a craft that combines art with journalism, aesthetics, and information. Graphics reporters began to emerge in print newsrooms in the early 1980s. Newspapers took advantage of this revolution and increased the number of charts, diagrams, maps, and other visually driven story packages to help time-starved readers absorb information more quickly. These days, we havemore options fromwhich to obtain information than ever before, and the field of information graphics reporting is expanding to influence how information is presented in online and broadcast. So, while the development of the graphics reporter is generally derived from newspapers and other print publications, the skill set is beginning to translate to other mechanisms for delivering information.
