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Reuters begins providing interactive graphics to publishers

Reuters announced Tuesday that is will begin providing interactive graphics to other media companies through a collaboration with tech company Graphiq.

The interactive graphics will be available for free through Reuters Open Media Express and to Reuters News Agency clients. Reuters will also publisher them within its news coverage on Reuters.com.

Reuters customers will also have access to Graphiq’s library of interactive graphics as well as receive paired interactives with Reuters text stories and multimedia packages. The graphics work across devices and when embedded on websites.

“Publishers are increasingly looking to interactive visualizations as a way to engage their audiences and provide visual context on data-driven news stories,” said Bo Rosser, global head of text and data products for Reuters News, in a statement.

Publishers can access the interactive graphics here.

Chris Roush

Chris Roush was the dean of the School of Communications at Quinnipiac University in Hamden, Connecticut. He was previously Walter E. Hussman Sr. Distinguished Professor in business journalism at UNC-Chapel Hill. He is a former business journalist for Bloomberg News, Businessweek, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, The Tampa Tribune and the Sarasota Herald-Tribune. He is the author of the leading business reporting textbook "Show me the Money: Writing Business and Economics Stories for Mass Communication" and "Thinking Things Over," a biography of former Wall Street Journal editor Vermont Royster.