online journalism in south africa

NEWS24


This news is from News24. The pictures are very clear and the caption is put in an understandable way. News24 uses simple plain leads to its stories. The pictures tell it all as they always try to catch candid pictures which show the real emotions of the subject. This site has all the sections which include national, international, sport and includes languages such as Afrikaans and Zulu.

Related links to the story above mentioned are put in a clear ways and format. They are written in bold so that it becomes easier to see. Despite that the page is small but they put what they valued to be newsworthy first. On the page they also put breaking news stories for epitome is the Pistorius murder charge. They also put what is important to every person, weather.

http://www.news24.com/

Mail $ Guardian

Mail and guardian uses bigger pictures than the one on news24.they also use bigger and wider pages. They use even archive pictures for example Oscar pistorius’ at the Paralympics game but they put most important information so the status qou. They caption says something important to say that “Journalists queue to Pretoria magistrate court over Pistorius murder case.”

Mail and Guardian shows videos of better quality compared to the News24. This video on this page shows all the status qou of the country from Anene booysen’s brutal rape, and SONA (state of national address). Under the linked video they also show more videos on different subject topics whish are important. With videos are the rotating advertisements beside the stories.

Mail and Guardian uses two ways to link related stories. They put the links next to the breaking story and also put the links at the bottom of the page. They also put to date hard copy front page so could see and go to buy the edition.

http://mg.co.za/section/news

City press

This online news is similar to Mail and Guardian because they use bigger pictures and that they put their hard copy front page beside the top stories. With this site they indicate very clearly that these are top stories and special report for example on the issue of pistorius.

The advertisements are put in the same side and rotate. Mail and guardian has got many section than these two sites. City press’s style of writing is not near to similar with the other sites. At the bottom of these three sites are the same things.

http://www.citypress.co.za/