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Advancements in mapping and GIS technology have created a new medium for interactive storytelling and reconnecting people to place.<\/em><\/strong>
\nMaps have long been a valuable tool used by journalists to illustrate and enhance written stories. And with new advancements in mapping and GIS<\/a> technology, the use of maps in the media now has even more potential for engaging with audiences.
\nStory maps<\/a> let you combine authoritative maps with narrative text, images, and multimedia content. They make it easy to harness the power of maps and geography to tell your story.
\nJournalists are already starting to embrace story maps as a powerful new medium that lets them tell engaging stories. And it\u2019s easy, too. There\u2019s absolutely no programming required to build a story map: simply choose the best application template for telling your story and start building it interactively.
\nLet\u2019s take a look at how some journalists have leveraged the power of story maps to help tell their stories.
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\nAnatomy of an Air Disaster<\/strong>
\nIndonesia AirAsia Flight 8501<\/a> was an Airbus A320-216 flight that went missing en route to Singapore from Surabaya, Indonesia, on 28 December 2014, with 155 passengers and 7 crew on board.<\/p>\n

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Across the South East Asia region, media outlets used an interactive story map<\/a> to help readers understand all aspects of the AirAsia Flight 8501 crash and recovery process.
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\nExamining Officer-Involved Shootings in Los Angeles<\/strong>
\nHow frequent are officer-involved shootings in Los Angeles, and do they vary by geography? Because no official database exists, KNBC<\/em>, the NBC affiliate in Los Angeles, compiled their own data from public record requests, press releases, and news stories. According to their research, police throughout the Los Angeles area have been involved in 644 shootings from 2009 to August 2014<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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KNBC\u2019s<\/em> Officer-Involved Shootings in the Los Angeles Area<\/a> story map lets you explore the data and see correlations between officer-involved shootings and race, poverty, and crime.
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\nInteractive Map Gives Perspective on Massive Fire<\/strong>
\nA number of media outlets, including Time Magazine<\/a><\/em>, used an interactive story map<\/a> to give their readers a more complete picture of the Rim Fire that started near Yosemite National Park in August 2013. The Rim Fire threatened many communities near Yosemite National Park and posed a potential risk to several ranger stations and sequoia groves.<\/p>\n

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This story map<\/a> helped people visualize which areas and infrastructure were threatened by the fire, how the fire progressed, and where fires have ravaged the area in the past. The map also shows the location of the O’Shaughnessy Dam and reservoir, which provides water for the San Francisco Bay Area.
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\nThe World Almanac of Wealth<\/strong>
\nEvery year, Forbes<\/em> magazine publishes a list of the world\u2019s billionaires. But in 2014, they did something different with the data: they put it on a map<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Does geography impact net worth? This story map<\/a> lets you see where the 1,645 individuals on the 2014 Forbes<\/em> billionaires list reside. You can browse through the numbered tabs to explore the distribution of billionaires by region, and then click on dots on the map to see more information about each billionaire.
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\nMapping the Radical Islamists\u2019 Bloody Campaign through Iraq<\/strong>
\nMashable<\/em> used a story map<\/a> to track ISIL’s movements across Iraq<\/a> and show readers how the group slowly gained control of a significant portion of the country.<\/p>\n

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\nThe True Story of the Monuments Men<\/strong>
\nCoincident with the release of the movie \u201cThe Monuments Men<\/a>,\u201d Smithsonian Magazine<\/em> published an article about the real story<\/a> of this desperate effort to save Europe\u2019s artistic and cultural heritage. In addition, a story map<\/a> was produced by Esri\u2019s story maps team in partnership with the Smithsonian Institution to help readers to better understand these heroic efforts in geographic context.<\/p>\n

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\nOlympic Controversies, Scandals, and Stardom<\/strong>
\nFrom doping to protests, to the famous \u201cwhack heard \u2018round the world,\u201d Esri created a story map of 20 historic Olympic moments<\/a> for use by global media. A number of media outlets, including Al Jazeera<\/a><\/em>, used this story map as part of their coverage of the 2014 Olympics.<\/p>\n

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\nTell Your Story with Story Maps<\/strong>
\n\u201cWe live at a time and in a world in which people can become so glued to their gadgets they forget the place where they are standing,\u201d said Krissy Clark of American Public Media<\/a>, adding that journalists equipped with the latest mapping tools have \u201ca unique opportunity to reconnect people to place.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Do you have a story to tell? 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