Skye Doherty was our lecturer this week. This is a link to her website: http://skyedoherty.com/
The lecture was about "Text" - how it can be used in different ways, how it dominates online etc.
See the difference below in the printed and online headlines for the Gbagbo story. Online stories need to be easily found by search engines and catch people's eyes with more directness.
News stories are set out in an inverted pyramid format with the most important things first.
Interesting information about the way people read news.
Online news games were also also discussed as a way of presenting news differently and taking full advantage of the new mediums made available by technology. Games could be used for some news stories to explain them in an alternative way, not to replace print or online news. An example we were shown a news game about Somali pirates taking hostages. I would give the link here but I can't find it in the powerpoint presentation or on Google.
It's an interesting concept and I'm sure some people like news games, but I guess I'm more old-fashioned when it comes to personally reading the news. I like to read the news and I usually read it in printed versions for the more in-depth stories and look more briefly at online news. But it's still very interesting to see and learn about all the new ways news can be conveyed. This is also the first blog I've written and I'm finding it very easy and enjoyable.
I'll finish by putting a link to this website about news values:
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