Publico, the leading quality daily newspaper of Portugal printed this full page infographic last Thursday.
As you can see, they have “localized” the Brazilian accident.
Lisbon also has a city airport and the graphic works very well.
This kind of mega-graphic was needed for obvious reasons:
1. The crash was on a stormy, dark evening.
2. The pictures and the videos on television were not clear about how the airplane ended outside the airport.
3. The dramatic pictures were very widely-known by next morning’s newspaper readers, and they wanted to know more: at this time the what was not enough, they needed details about the how and the why.
Again, I love photojournalism, but I think that in any newsroom visual journalism has to rule.
And in this, and similar cases, photos show a lot, but infographics tell more than pictures and words.
(Thanks to David Clifford)