Web: Multimedia Journalism
The media maze: how digitization spreads misinformation
For my second feature about the evolution of media and misinformation, I included two pieces of multimedia. The first (right) displays statistics about the different ways generations consume media, while the second (below) is a timeline covering the evolution of various mediums for media. Both elements allowed me to display information in a visually appealing way for readers.
Issues that matter: weighing the costs of living
Within the politics package discussing important 2024 election topics, many forms of multimedia were used to visually portray data. One of the graphs I made (right) shows the CPI of California between 1955 to 2023, displaying the growing cost of living. This helped illustrate the main issues written about within the article such as housing prices and inflation.
Customers grapple with PG&E's rising rates
As I became more experienced with data layouts, I experimented with different methods of organizing statistics. In my article about PG&E's rising rates, I included a bar graph of the company's average bundle rate over the years to further emphasize the change in rates over time. This can be seen on the right.
College enrollment rates decline as higher education loses value
Another example of my multimedia can be seen in my article about declining college enrollment rates. In the graph pictured, I organized the data for college enrollment based on various sectors of education. This provides a broader overview of the decline in a more visually appealing way.