Alberto Cairo, directory of infographics for Epoca magazine, is launching a course for reporters with the Knight Center for Journalism in the America that hopes to teach journalists the importance of visualizing data and information.
In the course, Cairo will show journalists how to use graphics to communicate and analyze data. “You don’t need to know how to draw, nor how to use complicated software,” he said. “Instead, you need to educate yourself to think in a more visual way, something that is within everyone’s reach. This change in mentality is fundamental for the future of journalism. I will also explain how to create computer graphics/display departments, which professionals to hire and how to train them.”
