Has online journalism become ordinary? Are the approaches starting to standardise? Little has stood out in the online journalism coverage of this election – the innovation of previous years has been replaced by consolidation. Here are a few observations on how the media approached their online coverage:
Mirror.co.uk wants to beware how its links appear – as it looks like it’s selling links, even if it isn’t
The Sun has had more submissions to Fark, the social news site, than any other UK newspaper. The Guardian is second.
The Guardian has had more stories submitted to Reddit.com than any other major newspaper site.
The Daily Telegraph has more stories submitted to Digg, the social news website, than any other daily newspaper site.
All self-respecting newspaper sites have share and social-bookmarking functionality, such as links to Digg, Reddit, Fark etc. But if the results of StumbleUpon are typical then: Times Online is miles ahead of its rivals when it comes to users sharing / bookmarking its pages. The FT has a lot of work to do. Adding icons for an individual service makes
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In a guest post for the OJB, The Professional Cartoonists’ Organisation give an overview of how news organisations are treating cartoons online. Cartoons have long been an essential part of British newspapers, so why do so many of those publications fail to do justice to drawn content on their websites? The digital display of the web is a visual medium
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I’m currently in the middle of a 3-week break from computers – in the meantime, here’s an article I wrote for Press Gazette the week before last, about the past year’s raft of newspaper website relaunches: The last Luddite has left the building. With almost every national newspaper having revamped its website in the past twelve months, Richard Desmond has
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