Monday, January 23, 2006
13 Miners coverage
CBC WORLD NEWS (http://www.cbc.ca/cp/world/060102/w0102128.html)
This site, in covering the minor story was not flashy, did not adversitse a lot and even those advertisemtns were subtle and not distracting. The story was very inpersonal, just the facts, fewer personal quotes. There was definetly the sense of distance in the story, nothing that really reached out to the reader to evoke empathy, just the facts. The lack of advertisments made it eaiser to read and focus as I scrolled down, it almost seemed likea regular word document there was little actual design on the news page.
Herald Tridune (http://www.iht.com/articles/2006/01/03/news/web.0301mine.php)
This site took a more personal approach, including a more extensive list of details, like how resuers worked giving it a different tone that implied it was closer to home. While there were a few ads at the top of the page there was nothing over whelming. The layout was set up in columns to minick the layout of the actual newspaper, while it was breaking news at the time, they get into some details about the personal lives of some of the minors, finding ways we might be able to identify with them with references to retirement and prayers.
CNN (CNN.com)
Of the three this news site was the most colorful, the most personal, and made it seem like this could be happeneing in our own town. The parimiteres of the page however were littered with blinking advertisments in brights reds and yellow, the top of the page reads ing red :"BREAKING NEWS" There are photographs of the famlies that were affected and it drew the reader into the story on a more visual level.
It was sensational then the other two pages and more money based, which became apparent through the advertising.
This site, in covering the minor story was not flashy, did not adversitse a lot and even those advertisemtns were subtle and not distracting. The story was very inpersonal, just the facts, fewer personal quotes. There was definetly the sense of distance in the story, nothing that really reached out to the reader to evoke empathy, just the facts. The lack of advertisments made it eaiser to read and focus as I scrolled down, it almost seemed likea regular word document there was little actual design on the news page.
Herald Tridune (http://www.iht.com/articles/2006/01/03/news/web.0301mine.php)
This site took a more personal approach, including a more extensive list of details, like how resuers worked giving it a different tone that implied it was closer to home. While there were a few ads at the top of the page there was nothing over whelming. The layout was set up in columns to minick the layout of the actual newspaper, while it was breaking news at the time, they get into some details about the personal lives of some of the minors, finding ways we might be able to identify with them with references to retirement and prayers.
CNN (CNN.com)
Of the three this news site was the most colorful, the most personal, and made it seem like this could be happeneing in our own town. The parimiteres of the page however were littered with blinking advertisments in brights reds and yellow, the top of the page reads ing red :"BREAKING NEWS" There are photographs of the famlies that were affected and it drew the reader into the story on a more visual level.
It was sensational then the other two pages and more money based, which became apparent through the advertising.
# posted by Minni @ 1:34 PM 
