GIS for Journalism

GIS shows the geographic relationships between physical features and the man-made events that you report about, such as

• Wars
• Disasters
• Political events
• Epidemics
• Events

Economic patterns, environmental changes, political changes, and other complex data can be accessed, analyzed, and presented using GIS to help you report on current situations with greater context and insight.

Worth 1,000 Words

GIS can also be used to help you display data in the immediately comprehensible form of a map. The Associated Press, for example, uses ESRI technology to create most of its news maps, increasing the production and quality of the maps it distributes to its hundreds of members.

Learn More

• Mapping the News—ArcNews, Summer 2004

User Stories

• Newsweek Maps Out Hurricane Story With GIS and ESRI Data—ArcNews, Winter 2004/2005