Almost a year ago, The New York Times launched their new data journalism section, The Upshot, on April 22, 2014. This new feature focuses on politics, policy, economics and more, in an interactive format different from other sections on their website.
While browsing through the website, I read through some of the latest stories, but only one sparked my interest. The title alone, “1.5 Million Missing Black Men” seemed interesting enough.
The article starts off with a couple of graphs followed by a couple of paragraphs of text. That is how the whole article is written. I have found that personally, when articles are written in this form, text broken up with photos or other figures, it is easier to read.
Not only is it easier to read the information that is in these graphs, but it is also more visually appealing. Some of the NYT articles I have read, I have clicked out of, because they were too long or because there was too much text, with nothing breaking it up.
The Upshot is different. These graphs and figures seem more interactive and are much more appealing to the eye than other articles you would read on the NYT website.
