News Media Archive:

An interactive map showing the range of radio stations in the United States.

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I tried to find a version of this including commercial stations, but the best was maps of coverage areas for single stations from radio-locator.com.

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I love that the content was pulled together and includes the names of the victims – but you can barely read the names, and often can’t tell how the countries and names line up.

I went to the Newseum this weekend (a great museum – recommend it to everyone) and saw the below wall sized map of freedom of the press. The online version of it isn’t much to look at, but the pop-up/drill down information for each country is very rich.

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Online version (which was also available at the Museum at the kiosks you see above):

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There were so many of these last month I stopped looking at them – but this one is cute. Yes, I said cute. It’s an interactive flying timeline of protest milestones for 17 countries. Click on any of them to bring up a full Guardian article. They are also keeping it up to date (as of today, anyway).

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Ughhh. Type in your zip code and see how close you are to a nuclear plant!! There’s even a red target painted on the reactor!!!  I’m primarily posting this so I have an excuse to link to this excellent article, which explains in detail what’s going on in Japan and why you shouldn’t run out to buy potassium pills and start digging a fallout shelter. I might also point out that we conducted 140+ atmospheric atomic tests in Nevada – I’m not saying that was a particularly intelligent or healthy thing to do, but let’s maintain a little perspective about fallout risks, shall we?

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(via the always excellent Barry Ritholtz)

It’s surprising to me how often the organizations who create the data are so rarely the ones who take the time to visualize it properly <cough! US Government Cough!>. However in the below example TV habit watchdog nielsen has done a fine job of summing up the television and mobile phone markets. (via)

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Interesting analysis of both the print and online versions, from a layout point of view. (via)

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Excellent article by Sarah Slobin (who has worked for NYT, Fortune, CNN, WSJ, etc) on how to research and design your own work. (via)

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The Washington Post’s new “Post Politics” online section has an excellent map of elections (Senate, House, and Governor), all updated regularly. Click around for a while – there are a large number of filters, drill downs, and highlights to play with.

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Pew Research has created an interactive filter of 2009 news coverage that graphs results by media outlet and topic. It’s a little confusing at first, but fun to play with. For example, below, you can compare Fox and NPRs coverage of several issues. Note: I had to disable Firefox’s ad-blocker to view it. (via)

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Television

In: Culture News Media

15 Mar 2010

Popular Science magazine has partnered with Google to make available it’s entire archive. Keyword searches bring up an entire month/issue with your search result highlighted. It looks they have OCR’d every page, making for some cool search results. (via)

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For example, a search of “map” brought up this map of US science sites from 1967:

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and this first air-map of the north pole from 1931:

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“Chart” brings up radiological diagrams from 1950 (among many many others)

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Interactive twitter tracker on NBC. (via)

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Another color coded graphic news aggregator. This one from the Guardian.

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