Erica Smith, an excellent news designer at the St. Louis Dispatch has mapped 2008 newspaper cuts, totally nearly 6,000 layoffs and buyouts. CHECK IT OUT
This is a grim report, but it has a lot more impact than listing buyout and layoff announcements one at a time. It appears she updates the map ... well, frequently.
As Andrew Zahler of the Spokesman-Review points out:
"First, this map is more affecting than the daily reports on Romanesko or a simple number. Which is another example of why multimedia just makes information crackle."
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Thanks for the kind words, Annette!
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