Mark Porter

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Ethics and infographics

May 12th, 2011

Over the weekend, Juan Giner and Alberto Cairo wrote an article for Nieman Watchdog about the blurring of fact and fiction in newspaper infographics following the death of Osama Bin Laden. I was asked to endorse it and was happy to agree. As it happened I had been discussing exactly these issues with Michael Robinson, head of graphics at the Guardian and Observer, a couple of days before. Read the rest of this entry »

Not design, but…

November 28th, 2008

… some great magazine journalism here. The 7 Greatest Stories in the History of Esquire Magazine… in Full. (Via Ben Hammersley)