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You have to love the Internet. Just as I was wondering what Edward Tufte had to offer journalism, along comes Danny Sanchez with a blog about Hans Rosling. Rosling’s concern is presenting complex health information graphically – you can see him in action from February 2006 here. Update: Rosling is in the news because he’s…

Most of the discussion of journalism’s future takes place around technology. There’s very little reappraisal of how we act to present stories and information. It struck me again reading Edward Tufte‘s Envisioning Information. Tufte presents a piece by David Hellerstein from Harper’s in 1984, called “The Slow, Costly Death of Mrs K–.” Hellerstein analyses and…

Overheard at a media bash I recently attended: We get hundreds of applications for every job we advertise. Too many to go through. But we have developed a strategy for dealing with them. Before scanning the CVs, we split the pile in two and chuck half away. After all, you don’t won’t unlucky people working…