JEO WordPress Theme

Jeo WordPress Theme acts as a geojournalism platform which allows news organizations, bloggers and NGOs to publish news stories as layers of information on digital maps. With Jeo, creating the interaction between data layers and contextual information is much more intuitive and interactive. The theme is ready for multilingual content and facilitates the publishing tasks.

You can post geotagged stories and create richly designed pages for each one of the featured stories. At same time, by simply inputting the ids of layers hosted on MapBox, you can manage sophisticated maps without losing performance, add legends directly with HTML and set the map parameters. All direct at the WordPress dashboard.

Jeo wants to help journalists and NGOs to improve storytelling with maps. Creating a child theme with all its functionality is easy since it contains all the necessary hooks to customize layouts and data visualization.

Contributors

Jeo is a collaboration between @oeco, @cardume, @memelab and @icfjknight. Developed after the theme was built for InfoAmazonia, a project led by ICFJ Knight International Journalism Fellow Gustavo Faleiros and supported by Internews.

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Create Media-rich Reports with Page Builder

Willie Shubert

Design Design

In-depth multimedia story telling has unique requirements; a narrative is structured around key facts supported by a mix of media elements intended to draw readers into the world the journalist is presenting. Combining the pieces into a cohesive story is one of the most exciting aspects of modern journalism and easing the process of creating […]

Share a Map from a JEO Site

Willie Shubert

Maps Maps

Not everyone has the time, money, or inclination to make interactive maps to support their stories. With this in mind, we’ve added a sharing feature to help journalists tell environmental stories with the maps they see within GeoJournalism sites. This tool creates an interface for formatting an iframe embed code; similar to a YouTube video […]

Making Maps with JEO

Willie Shubert

Apps Apps Design Design Maps Maps

The basic component of a map is its layers—an individually designed dataset—that are combined together to tell a story. In JEO 1.o and beyond, maps are built utilizing a layers content type which allows editors to more easily reuse the data they mapped. These layers are organized and configured in combination with a base map that usually consists […]

Using JEO’s Content Type

Willie Shubert

Apps Apps Maps Maps

Understanding the unique WordPress Content Types created for JEO is a great way to understand how to organize and create content. These content types are defined by the type of information they contain and how they are used throughout a JEO site. There are two main categories of content types used in JEO; one group […]

JEO: first steps

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Apps Apps Maps Maps

Introduction Jeo is a WordPress theme that acts as an online platform for geojournalism and allows publication of news articles as layers of information on digital maps. With Jeo, creating interaction between the layers of data and contextual information is much more intuitive. The theme is developed to be a base of child themes and is […]

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Data-driven journalism project Land Quest maps drilling profits and aid in Kenya

In Kenya’s poor, dry Turkana region, recent discoveries of water and oil could change the lives of residents who depend on food aid for survival. Land Quest, a cross-border investigative journalism experiment is using data to illuminate the competing financial interests in Kenya. It maps the flow of aid money from Europe to Kenya, and the flow of profits from Kenya back to Europe.

Ekuatorial uses geographic data to cover climate change in Indonesia

Frequent flooding and critically low crop yields are just two of the warning signs of climate change in Indonesia, home to the world’s third-largest tropical rainforest and some of the highest levels of biological diversity on the globe. To shed light on these crucial issues, data journalists have launched the news site Ekuatorial, which offers the latest environmental news and engaging, easy-to-understand interactive maps of oceans, forests and natural disasters in Indonesia.