The recession interactive

By Reynolds Staff on May 26, 2009 in Basics, Uncategorized

Portfolio.com, despite its rocky road to survival over the past few months, hasn’t faltered in creating outstanding interactive media covering business. Its packages have simplified recent economic issues and put them into context in a clear, visual way.
Take the interactive multimedia with Band-Aids for the Ailing Economy, for example. Portfolio staff created a comprehensive timeline from 1860 to 2008 showing fluctuations in the nation’s gross domestic product, wars, financial crises, house majority and major government regulations on the banking industry. This piece not only displays the nuances of what contributes to a faltering economy, but puts today’s recession into context in America’s financial history.
This multimedia feature achieves what all business coverage should-it takes vast amounts of complex data and facts and serves it to users in comprehensible, chewable pieces.
Some other Portfolio interactive pieces to check out:
Wall Street’s Graveyard, Brother, Can You Spare $2?, The Green Miles , Subprimal Headquarters, and False Starts. The graphic Uncle Sam’s Growing Portfolio is also worth a look.

To see Portfolio‘s interactive features section, click here.

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