New Media Journalism Summary - Part 2

The New York Times publishes a daily newspaper and has an online edition that is updated daily. Online, they have a Global Edition and a U.S. Edition as well as video news. They group related stories on the page with pictures and external links.

The Times makes its money primarily from its paper sales, but with more and more people using the web, it needs online revenues as well. There are a few small adds on the website, and there is a TimesReader 2.0 which will deliver the Times to your computer for $4.62 a week.



Conversely, NCPR generates revenue from listener and underwriter donations, so there are no ads on their site or on the air.

They focus on local news from their listening area, which includes southern Ontario, northern NY, and western VT. There is a lot of multimedia on their website, including audio of all their stories, photos, interactive maps, and occasional videos.

NCPR is the only radio news outlet I followed for this class.



The Blog Herald is, pretty obviously given its name, a blog. Their news isn't the general news of the New York Times; Blog Herald posts about social media/social networking news.

But like the Times, Blog Herald uses ads posted on it's site to make money.

New Media Journalism Summary - Part 1

I have split up the comparison of the four news sites into several blog posts in favour of shorter, easier-to-read segments. In this post, I'll be talking about Ecuador.com news.



Ecuador.com news isn't an actual news outlet, but a news aggregate picking up stories from sources all over the world. They have recent stories from the BBC, Wall Street Journal, Times of India, and the LA Times.

Most of their news is relevant to Ecuador, but some stories only mention Ecuador and get posted on their site. In a recent India Times article talking about tennis, an Ecuadorian player is just mentioned- the story is about an Indian player. Another article, from Voice of America, is about diplomatic relations between Colombia and Venezuela. The only mention of Ecuador comes in the last sentance: "In 2008, Venezuela and Ecuador broke diplomatic relations with Colombia after Colombian troops raided a FARC rebel camp in Ecuador, killing FARC commander Raul Reyes and at least 20 other people."

But the site does offer reliable and pertinent Ecuadorian news. It is the only site I have been following that does not employ its own reporters.

Objectivity Report

Out of the 8 people surveyed, half of them most often get their news online. However, only 25% said online news was the most trustworthy source, and 37.5% said that online news was least trustworthy given the choice of online, newspaper, magazine, TV, and radio. The population of my survey said that online news is more objective but less trustworthy than other sources of news.

Here's a screenshot of my summarized survey results:

A New Look at Obesity

gitbigger.com

I've been reading this blog and I just can't seem to comprehend why someone would want to gain that much weight, or put in that much effort to gain weight. Don't get me wrong, I don't disapprove of people who are naturally bigger, or who don't want to/can't lose weight. But to live off fast food so that you have the pleasure of trying to work around your huge stomach..

Some of it could be psychological, according to this article.

Training Programs or Sweatshops?

Looks like the New York Times is getting into the multimedia thing - I didn't know they had video news!



This is pretty profound. But I also thought it jumped around from person to person too quickly to really figure out what was going on. What do you guys think?

Ridiculous

Congressman wants to reinstate the draft. What I really don't understand is how he wants the draft because there are too few people fighting in the middle east, but at the same time... he supports Obama pulling out the troops.

Also, I had no idea men had to register with the SSS. Is this still true? I was reading this for more information.

Top Secret America cont'd

Click here to watch the video. There are also links to other interactive features.

Though it kind of seems like they spent more time on that, and the hype, than they did on research.

My boyfriend told me about this, saying at his company (a defense contractor) they were afraid a lot of top secret information was going to be divulged in the report. But in actuality, most of it is just companies and locations. Information that is pretty readily availible. And coupled with scare tactics, I guess they've got themselves a story.

What do you think?