This interactive graphic is brought to you once again by the world leader in interactive graphics, The New York Times. This graphic is incredibly detailed, poignant and powerful, not only because its subject matter tells the story of American soldiers going to Afghanistan and tracks their journeys for a year, but also because of its easy interactivity. The design allows viewers to hear the story from the beginning, or skip to the sections that interest them the most.
It is also the ultimate multimedia package: videos, audio slideshows, powerful photography, text interviews from soldiers, an enlargeable map of the areas they are/were stationed. The photo gallery of the soldiers even contains updates on their statuses. This graphic is much, much more than a graphic: it is an entire story, actually several stories, wrapped up in an interactive package that allows the viewer to decide how to receive the information in the story. The epitome of multimedia journalism.
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/world/battalion.html?nl=todaysheadlines&emc=thab1#/NYT
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