Problems with "metagraphics"

I'm preparing at the momet one of those "metagraphics" ofthe kind How does a newspaper work (not the one below). And I noticed some problems with these graphics:

1. Don't matter if this is topic you control, all that you know about working in a newspaper. Thsi time you're going to lie and you know you're doing it. You should change the headlines "How a newspaper works" and write "How a newspaper should work but we haven't managed yet"

2. Nobody in the newsroom agree with the definition of his job. And they can't explain it in less than half page. And you just have two lines for each.

3. Every single department (and even person) wants to appear in teh graphics. It doesn't matter if marketing does not work in the newsroom. It doesn't matter if security guards have nothing to do with the journalistic process.

4. This is gonna be the graphic most people in the newsroom want to check before its publication. Everybody will change things. These kind of thing that happen also with circulation data graphics.


GRAPHIC: El Comercio (Perú)

Different ways to understand infographics

Explain what infographics are to people without realtionships wiyh journalism is a hard task. My grandmather, in fact, still think I'm the cartoonist. A high percentage of Journalisms Faculties students themselves don't know what infographics are. Ourselves, graphics artists, don't agree on the definition of our job.
But some peole try to explain it. This first example is form Nigel Homes' book On information Design adn now rescued by Nicolás Ramallo at his blog Haga clic para continuar. It expalisn way you need to be a graphic communicator, which it's not the same as explaining the job, but clarifies it a lot.



The second example is... funnier. Chris Morris, Art Director from Las Vegas Sun, found this graphic and uploaded it at NAO. A dog, with a mouse in one hand and a pencil in the other, draws bananas and apple to illustrate an information about savings... Confusing and "bizarre"



And this third example appeared before on this blog. It was made by 5W infographics, Juan Velascos's project, for Aula, a sopublication of El Mundo.



Anyway, being this one such particular profession, each newspaper has a very different way to manage with infographics.

What is an infographics artist?

Aula, the education section of El Mundo, showedthis way what is an infographics artist (Graphic in spanish, by 5W Infographics). Do you feel represented?. There's a thing I like, and is that it try to explain how should be this job. I have it on my wall...