Overheard on the Web, and other Web links From The Herald's Research Editor
Wednesday, July 06, 2005
Where they came from
The Palm Beach post took military casualty data from Iraq and Afghanistan and mapped it by hometown. It's a new way to visualize the deaths and gives you pause to see where they all came from. Hold cursor over the dots on the map to see the name of the town.
Elisabeth (Liz) Donovan was a Herald librarian for 10 years, and Research Editor for 13 years. She came to The Herald in 1981, following several years at the
Washington Post. She started blogging in 2000, with a news research blog, followed by the blog at Herald.com in 2003. A frequent speaker and writer on news research, she was honored in 2004 by the
News Division of the Special Libraries Association for her contributions to
the field.