Flash- June 25

I think Flash is a useful tool for journalists. It can help journalists create graphics which contains more information to support their reporting. Most of traditional graphics used in the past reporting are static pictures. The information that conveyed by these graphics are limited. Compared with traditional graphics, the graphics created by Flash can show more information in multi-tier approach. Let’s take the Missouri show caves map as an example. If it were a traditional graphic, readers could only get an idea of these caves’ locations from that map. However, the new graphic created by Flash contains more information. Readers will know not only these caves’ locations, but also some additional information about these caves. Obviously, the new graphic can be a more powerful support for reporting. Therefore, I think Flash is a good assistant in reporting.