ABSTRACT
Kathleen A. Hansen and Nora Paul (2004) cite four contributors
for information commonly used by communicators: informal
sources, institutional sources, scholarly sources and journalistic
sources.1 All four can be extremely valuable to a graphics reporter,
and understanding how each can contribute to the development of
a graphic is important. Additionally, a skilled graphics reporter
should be ready to consult books, legal documents, annual reports,
Web sites, newspapers, magazines, experts in the field and even tel-
evision when gathering information for a graphic. With all of these
potential sources in your arsenal, most graphics should come
together pretty efficiently.
