In a study executed in 2010, 2 researchers collected examples of data driven and visual news stories in order to detect common patterns in these stories and to describe different genres for these kind of news stories. Although the study is already quite old given the rapid development of tools and techniques for online articles (scrollytelling wasn’t invented yet at the time, for example), some useful insights can be drawn from the study and its conclusions.
These are the genres the researchers identified:
- Narrative visualisation: Magazine style
- Narrative visualisation: Annotated chart
- Narrative visualisation: Partitioned poster
- Narrative visualisation: Flow chart
- Narrative visualisation: Comic strip
- Narrative visualisation: Slide show
- Narrative visualisation: Slide show