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Raúl García Hémonnet/Editor
The exploration of new narratives is one of the objectives of the Journalistic Innovation Laboratory (LIP) linked to the Master in Journalistic Investigation, New Narratives, Data, Fact-checking and Transparency of the Rey Juan Carlos University and the Fundación Maldita.es, whose directors are the investigative journalist Antonio Rubio and Manuel Gertrudix, professor at the Faculty of Communication Sciences and coordinator of the Cyberimaginario research group.
Thanks to the agreement between Esri and the Rey Juan Carlos University, Master's students will enjoy specialized training given by Esri experts in which they will be able to learn about the possibilities of 'ArcGIS online' and its application in the field of journalistic innovation.
New ways of telling stories
The training activities will bring students and the teaching team closer to the use of applications such as storymaps, for the construction of interactive narratives based on data, the elaboration of interactive maps or the creation of 3D visualizations. All this, with the aim of creating new journalistic models and formats that take advantage, in a creative way, of the capacity of these technologies to innovate in the ways of communicating and reaching the public.
Esri is the world's leading company in the development of geographic information systems (GIS), essential to make better decisions through the analysis of geospatial data. In this sense, it has been recognized as a leader in the Location Intelligence market by the consulting firm Forrester. Its ArcGIS platform is used in many fields, such as urban planning, emergency management or, in the case of the media, to analyze large volumes of data and display it in an intuitive and accessible way.
ArcGIS has been used, among other informative events, during the informative coverage of the La Palma volcano eruption by large national media, such as El País.
This specialized training is part of the agreement signed a few months ago between the URJC and Esri Spain. The objective of the collaboration between Esri and the Rey Juan Carlos University is to contribute to increasing the training of professionals specialized in narratives based on geolocated data, who can take advantage of and apply the potential of their technological solutions in the journalistic sector.