Karl Gude’s 5 Quick Tips
June 9, 2008 – 3:06 pmKarl Gude is back in a new, 2-minute video answering the question:
What Five Things Would you Tell a Journalist to Look for to Assist in Illustrating a Story?
His response?
- Statistics
- Location
- Timeline
- Structure (flow, organization)
- Photographs
Take a look at his video to get more details:
What I find interesting is that his five things line up very nicely with the work of Dan Roam, Dave Gray, and Yuri Engelhardt. Let’s look at them with slightly different words:
- Statistics, or How Many?
- Location, or Where?
- Timeline, or When?
- Structure, or How?
- Photographs, or What/Who?
…which are 5 of Dan Roam’s “6 Ways of Seeing”. He, of course, adds Why as an additional question. Dave & Yuri each have similar frameworks. What’s even more interesting is that these are the same “classic” questions journalists have been asking for years. So, what was Karl’s advice to the journalists looking to tell stories visually? You can visualize a story using the exact same questions you want to answer in a text-based story. It’s the same advice you can use to tell any story visually, not just a newspaper article.
