Wednesday 7 November 2012

Newspaper Chart

Traditional Paper-based Form
Online News Site
Has a purchase price.  Is not free
Has predominantly free content
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Can be accessed anywhere with internet access
Can be easily marked or destroyed
Content remains even if portal of access is destroyed.
Usually target a specific audience base
Can reach a wider target audience non-specific some, and some target a niche audience
Costly to produce; paper, printing etc.
Cheap and often free because it has virtually no cost unless requiring a professional.
Costly to distribute
Cheap to distribute
Limited printing space, a 24 news cycle using news stories from the previous 24 hours. Often original or brand new stories that have been already used by tv news outlets.
Can offer countless news stories at any one time plus the ability to archive stories, although many of these news stories are simply replications or re-workings of main news stories and may be cut and pasted news stories from other mainstream news sites.
Only print version of story available
Avaliable on mobile devices, and desktops.
Cannot be updated immediately and regularly
Can be updated immediately and regularly 21 minutes.
Is not interactive
Can be interactive
Cannot allow audience immediate feedback/ citizen journalism
Allows for audience immediate feedback and citizen journalism.
Can offer in-depth analysis and comment but is limited by space.
Varied options for expansion of topic matter.  In depth editorials and comment.
Audience Gratifications of The Guardian website.
Feature
Audience Gratification
Long-running chat boards
Feels like a contributor and that they are becoming a news maker.
Network of weblogs
Leaving comments on articles
Can make an audience feel powerful by creating the idea that they are challenging the news institution’s values
Readers can access articles online, on mobile devices through RSS feeds or on eBook readers.
Immediacy. They decide what they read and what they view as important to an extent
Varied selection of categories in easy accessible genre areas
Images
Visual pleasures
Podcast
Listen to the news, gives gt
Access to paper-based content
Dating sites/ personals

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