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