Mapping the News: Case Studies in GIS and Journalism (Paperback)

David Herzog

  • 出版商: ESRI Press
  • 出版日期: 2003-07-01
  • 定價: $600
  • 售價: 3.3$199
  • 語言: 英文
  • 頁數: 150
  • 裝訂: Paperback
  • ISBN: 1589480724
  • ISBN-13: 9781589480728
  • 相關分類: 地理資訊系統 Gis
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Description:

A hurricane ravages part of southern Florida, and local newspaper reporters want to measure, analyze, and better understand the hidden reasons behind the damage. Population growth dramatically changes the census profile of a California county, and reporters want to dig beneath the numbers to find out what’s really happening. Lead poisoning threatens children in an East Coast city, and reporters and editors want to know where the harm is greatest, and why. In other parts of the United States, school busing, drunken driving, election balloting, property assessments, public housing, and mudslides are grist for news stories requiring the most in-depth reporting possible.

Though far-flung and separated by many miles, the news reporters, editors, and graphic artists who worked on these stories all relied on geographic information systems (GIS), an important technology for mapping and reporting the news. For years, industries, governments, environmental groups, utilities, and others have used ESRI® GIS software to work more efficiently and make better decisions. The move to GIS has been somewhat slower in news reporting, but in the last ten years or so, increasing numbers of newsrooms across the country have been adopting this powerful technology.

Mapping the News: Case Studies in GIS and Journalism shows how GIS and computer-assisted reporting are revolutionizing the news business. Packed with full-color illustrations, maps, and other graphics that help describe the ten case studies, the book also contains an introduction to GIS and how it works. Two detailed appendixes can help journalists immediately get started with GIS and also learn how to acquire free data to aid in news gathering and information analysis. Taken together, the case-study examples and resources in Mapping the News make the volume an important guide for newsroom managers, journalists, and student journalists who want to enhance their reporting abilities and strengthen their competitive edge.

“Mapping the News is more than a how-to for journalists interested in GIS—it’s a convincing why-to. The well-illustrated case studies described by author David Herzog show the power of GIS applied to a range of compelling stories on disasters, elections, taxation, toxic waste, drunken driving, and other issues important to readers. For those ready to move beyond reporting anecdotes into analyzing data, this book is a great introduction to a powerful new tool.”

Stephen K. Doig
Knight Chair in Journalism
Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication
Arizona State University, Tempe

 

Table of Contents:

Introduction
GIS: What it is, and how it's changing journalism.
Decoding a hurricane's destruction
The Miami Herald shows how and why Hurricane Andrew was so destructive in south Florida.
Tracking demographic changes
The San Diego Union-Tribune reports on population growth and demographic shifts in San Diego County, California.
Seeing schools in black and white
The Charlotte Observer examines school assignment and busing changes in Mecklenburg County, North Carolina.
Plotting pockets of lead poisoning
The Providence Journal investigates lead poisoning effects on children in Rhode Island.
Mapping bars and fatal crashes
The Philadelphia Inquirer explores the relationship between drinking establishments and drunken driving in southeastern Pennsylvania.
Linking race and spoiled ballots
The Washington Post reports on disqualified ballots in Florida and elsewhere during the 2000 presidential election.
Finding homes in landslide areas
The San Jose Mercury News examines home building and mudslide dangers in Northern California's Santa Cruz Mountains.
Zeroing in on environmental hazards
The Dallas Morning News investigates public housing and toxic sites across the United States.
Uncovering inequitable assessments
The Columbus Dispatch reports on unfair property assessments in central Ohio.
Beyond traditional GIS: Using MapShop
The Chicago Tribune and The Times of Northwest Indiana used new, Internet-based mapping service to uncover information and produce telling graphics.
Appendix A: Getting started with GIS
Tips on developing GIS story ideas, and how to begin work immediately.
Appendix B: Finding free data
How journalists can locate free map layers and other data.

商品描述(中文翻譯)

描述:一場颶風襲擊了佛羅里達州的一部分,當地的報紙記者希望能夠測量、分析和更好地了解損害背後的隱藏原因。人口增長大大改變了加利福尼亞縣的人口普查概況,記者們希望深入挖掘數據背後的真相。鉛中毒威脅著東海岸城市的兒童,記者和編輯們想知道哪裡的傷害最大,以及為什麼。在美國的其他地方,學校巴士、酒醉駕駛、選舉投票、財產評估、公共住房和泥石流都是需要進行最深入報導的新聞故事。

儘管分散在不同地方並相距很遠,參與這些故事的新聞記者、編輯和圖形藝術家都依賴地理信息系統(GIS),這是一項重要的地圖和新聞報導技術。多年來,工業、政府、環保團體、公用事業等都使用ESRI® GIS軟件來提高工作效率和做出更好的決策。新聞報導領域對GIS的應用進展相對較慢,但在過去的十年左右,全國各地的新聞室越來越多地採用了這項強大的技術。

《地圖新聞:GIS和新聞學案例研究》展示了GIS和計算機輔助報導如何改變新聞業務。這本書充滿了彩色插圖、地圖和其他圖形,有助於描述十個案例研究,同時還介紹了GIS及其工作原理。兩個詳細的附錄可以幫助記者立即開始使用GIS,並學習如何獲取免費數據以協助新聞收集和信息分析。綜合考慮《地圖新聞》中的案例研究和資源,這本書對新聞室經理、記者和學生記者來說是一個重要的指南,他們希望提高自己的報導能力並增強競爭優勢。

“《地圖新聞》不僅僅是一本對GIS感興趣的記者的操作指南,它還是一本令人信服的書。作者大衛·赫爾佐格描述的這些案例研究以豐富的插圖展示了GIS應用於災害、選舉、稅收、有毒廢物、酒醉駕駛和其他對讀者重要的問題的力量。對於那些準備從報導軼事轉向數據分析的人來說,這本書是一個強大新工具的絕佳入門。”
- Stephen K. Doig
坎奈特新聞講座教授
克朗凱特新聞與傳播學院
亞利桑那州立大學坦佩校區

目錄:
- 引言:GIS是什麼,以及它如何改變新聞業務。
- 解讀颶風的破壞:《邁阿密先驅報》展示了為什麼颶風安德魯對佛羅里達州南部造成如此大的破壞。
- 追蹤人口變化:《聖地亞哥聯合論壇報》報導了加利福尼亞縣的人口變化。
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