News Illustrated is a full-page information graphic that runs every Sunday in the '' South Florida Sun-Sentinel'', one of 12 newspapers owned by Tribune Company. It tells news stories visually — and in ways that are hard to replicate with traditional

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. Subjects range from explaining advances in

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and

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History

News Illustrated started as a response to reader requests for

coverage. in 1993, Editor Gene Cryer created a weekly color page aimed at engaging young readers and named it

Science Science is a systematic discipline that builds and organises knowledge in the form of testable hypotheses and predictions about the universe. Modern science is typically divided into twoor threemajor branches: the natural sciences, which stu ...

. Initially, the page published stories from the week that couldn't find their way into the daily paper.

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William McDonald would pick the topic, research it, write it and turn it in to the

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department. Graphics Editor Lynn Occhiuzzo and her staff then illustrated and designed the page. Once the page progressed, others in the

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started taking part, including designer/editor David Baker. The graphics staff also contributed ideas. The page proved popular and was reprinted in 1994 as a book titled "Dancing Honeybees and Other Natural Wonders of Science: An Illustrated Compendium" The credited author was William Lynn Baker, which combined the names of the McDonald, Occhiuzzo and Baker. By 1996, the art department was remade to focus on

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and the graphics staff assumed the reporting, writing and production of the page. For a period of two years (1996 to 1998) former senior graphic reporter R. Scott Horner managed the page, developing ideas, researching and creating the pages. In 1998 other artists in the department began regularly producing

pages. In 1999, it was renamed News Illustrated to reflect a broadening of subject matter to include

, world events,

and

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Readership

News Illustrated reaches more than a million readers every week. The page is published in the '' Sun-Sentinel'', in sister Tribune Company newspapers, including the ''

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'', and is repurposed for weekly distribution by the McClatchy-Tribune graphics wire service, a collaboration between Tribune Company and

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Offshoots

News Illustrated has led to two notable sites online. In 1996, graphics director Leavett Biles made the decision to animate News Illustrated content for the Sun-Sentinel's web site. Biles hired Don Wittekind as assistant graphics director and gave him the task of developing a new kind of "multimedia informational graphics. " Wittekind and graphics reporter R. Scott Horner launched the paper's first graphic, "Santa's High-Tech Sleigh," in December 1996 and followed with several more serious projects early in 1997. These pioneering efforts led to the creation of a Multimedia Gallery page, which would later be renamed The Edge. In 2008, a News Illustrated blog launched to expand on the printed page with interactivity, information edited out of the page and links to research resources.

Awards

News Illustrated has been recognized many times through the years in international competition, most notably by the Society for News Design. Some recent examples: *2005: Three Awards of Excellence: Egg color

Sleep apne

Staff portfoli

*2006: Seven Awards of Excellence: African-American migratio

Global warming (2

High-heeled shoe

Oil drillin

Treating AID

Belinda Long-Ivey portfoli

*2007: Five Awards of Excellence: Super Bowl XL

Construction crane

Nutritio

Pirate lif

Panama Cana

Sources

A practical guide to graphics reporting, Jennifer George-Palilonis

Dancing Honeybees and Other Natural Wonders of Science: An Illustrated Compendium" William Lynn Baker

Professional and Technical Writing Strategies: Communicating in Technology and Science (6th Edition), Judith S. VanAlstyne

Official external links

News Illustrated pdf archive

News Illustrated blog

TheEdge multimedia gallery
Illustration Graphic design Infographics Journalism in the United States

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