Maps with the News: The Development of American Journalistic Cartography - Softcover

Monmonier, Mark

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0226534138 ISBN 13: 9780226534138

Publisher: University of Chicago Press, 1999

Synopsis

Maps with the News is a lively assessment of the role of cartography in American journalism. Tracing the use of maps in American news reporting from the eighteenth century to the 1980s, Mark Monmonier explores why and how journalistic maps have achieved such importance.

"A most welcome and thorough investigation of a neglected aspect of both the history of cartography and modern cartographic practice."—Mapline

"A well-written, scholarly treatment of journalistic cartography. . . . It is well researched, thoroughly indexed and referenced . . . amply illustrated."—Judith A. Tyner, Imago Mundi

"There is little doubt that Maps with the News should be part of the training and on the desks of all those concerned with producing maps for mass consumption, and also on the bookshelves of all journalists, graphic artists, historians of cartography, and geographic educators."—W. G. V. Balchin, Geographical Journal

"A definitive work on journalistic cartography."—Virginia Chipperfield, Society of University Cartographers Bulletin

About this title

From the Back Cover:

Maps with the News is a lively assessment of the role of cartography in American journalism. In an age when many school children lack basic knowledge of geography, the journalistic map in newspapers and magazines and on television has become an important medium of geographic instruction. At the same time the graphic imagery of maps has become central to the commercial packaging of news coverage.

About the Author:

Mark Monmonier is distinguished professor of geography at Syracuse University’s Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs.

About this edition

• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Publication date: 1999
• ISBN 10: 0226534138
• ISBN 13: 9780226534138
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 348