The impact of online technology on news
Traditional Paper-based Form | Online News Site |
Has a purchase price. Is not free | Has predominantly free content |
Available via print | 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 | Still targets a specific audience but is more open |
Costly to produce; paper, printing etc. | Cheap to set up a website |
Costly to distribute | Cheap to distribute |
Only offers a limited number of news stories. Stories are created from editors and photograph a given by photographers | 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 | This has more news on a particular story |
Cannot be updated immediately and regularly | Has regular updates/ minute by minute news available |
Is not interactive | Can be interactive |
Cannot allow audience immediate feedback/ citizen journalism | Audience are able to voice their opinions there and then |
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 | Gives the audience an expression to make to all the other users |
Network of weblogs | Gives the audience more of a variety to choose from |
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. | Gives the audience more accessibility allowing them to access news via different ways |
Varied selection of categories in easy accessible genre areas | Allows it to be organised, audience can access the category they are interested in more easily |
NEWSPAPERS: The effect of online technology
| Podcast | Audience can listen and hear and feel the emotion behind the text allowing it to be more meaningful |
| Access to paper-based content | Gives the audience something to look at when ever they need to |
| Dating sites/ personals | Allows the audience to find and interact with new people |
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