NEWS24.COM
I’ve visited the NEWS24 online news web, and found that the information and the news on the web are posted in order. This news web is easier to access and the format of which is applied enable the readers to find the news of their choice much easier. On the home page, you see many different news headlines and photos with little captions on the bottom. Once you click on any of the headlines; it gives you the whole story and other photos. I like the manner of which they write their stories, because they not just write the stories without the photograph unlike other online journalism. Those photographs grab the attention of the readers or any other person who is just brows on the web, to read the stories even though it was not their intension to read such stories.
The web has the search engine where the internet user is in liberty to search if a certain story is available on the web, or search any old story. Homepage also structured with different options like choosing the international, African or South African news and many more. You can choose whether you want Business, Sport, Technology or Lifestyle news. The weather updates is available, and you can choose different languages like Afrikaans or isiZulu. There are videos and audio available on this website. http://www.news24.com/SouthAfrica/News/NPA-Oscars-bail-hearing-wont-be-drawn-out-20130219
DAILYSUN.CO.ZA
I’ve also visited the Daily Sun’s online News. This online news is the most boring website I’ve ever come across, because the whole web page is written in such an extent as if is the single newspaper column. On the home page there are less than five stories with the little photographs and headline that look like the captions; those stories are without any captions on photographs. When I went through the stories and try to read them, they also show a little photograph with Headline on top and the little caption at the bottom of the image. All of this including the text of the story are very skinny as if they are written on one column of a newspaper.
The multimedia of this is very poor and need to be reviewed, because there are also no videos to watch or any other multimedia materials such as audio or blogs. The web is totally not grabbing the reader’s attention and it is not easy to stay a long on it. http://www.dailysun.co.za/indexnew_headline1.rbml?rssItemId=http%3A%2F%2Fwordpress.integrat.co.za%2Fdailysun%2F%3Fp%3D37377
IOL NEWS
The ioL is one of South Africa’s Online Journalism. Their web page is one of the best, because on its home page there are many different stories. Every story has the headline, photograph and the caption of the story. Once you click on the headline, it automatically leads you to the rest of the story. That story is including the headline, the photo and that whole story.
The multimedia of the web is also good since it has the options for videos to watch and the blog, together with the Facebook and the Twitter links; it also grab readers attention. http://www.iol.co.za/news/politics/mamphela-ramphele-s-full-speech-1.1472163
Journalism in the South Africa is developing day by day. The journalists aware of the different activities in the different fields of life and inform the people about that as soon as possible.
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