A screencast on info graphics brings the multimedia journey to a close

Few things have inspired me as much over a 25-year media career as the opportunity to serve as Newsday’s graphics editor from 2001 to 2009. Those of you who follow this blog know I am most comfortable working with words — the results of my visual work were painfully evident in this class. But that …

Graphics matter. Of course, you know why.

Perhaps the most hard-learned lesson of my professional life has the been recognition that words alone will not drive newspaper circulation — whatever remains of it — in the 21st century. That is, Pulitzer-quality narrative is worth little if readers aren’t attracted to read it. That is also why despite a thin background in visual …