Evidence of news

More than sensory information can be visually represented:

via indexed

More from Reuters on mapping the news. They are also building a crisis map sensitive to issues of hunger, health, war and natural disaster around the world.

Some other maps, modes of visual representation, that could be mashed to offer layered visual representations of news:

• concept mapping
• networks (visual complexity)
• indexical (and hilarious - from which the above)
• live datalogical
• taggable
• information design
• yahoo piratical
  

More suggestions? This doesn't even scratch the surface.