Please evaluate and critique www.Roanoke.com, which is the Web site of the Roanoke Times newspaper. Roanoke produces some of the best multimedia content in the country. It was also highly praised for its coverage of the Virginia Tech shootings.
In your critique, please pay special attention to its multimedia content. What projects did you like? What did you hate? Where could the Web site improve?
Thursday, February 19, 2009
Tuesday, February 17, 2009
The Drudge Report
NOTE: The deadline has been extended for evaluation of The Drudge Report until Wednesday, Feb. 18 at 5:45.
Please evaluate and critique The Drudge Report, or www.drudgereport.com. You should pay specific attention to the content of the site--specifically what kind of stories are posted on the site, their sources and any potential biases.
Please evaluate and critique The Drudge Report, or www.drudgereport.com. You should pay specific attention to the content of the site--specifically what kind of stories are posted on the site, their sources and any potential biases.
Thursday, February 5, 2009
Huffington Post Chicago
Please evaluate and critique Huffington Post.
Huffington Post essentially acts as a news aggregator, culling editorial content from across the Web and presenting it at one location. It supplements the aggregator with a network of liberal bloggers, including several celebs.
It is a very controversial Web site in that the content it aggregates is not paid for. Many media outlets complain that Huffington Post copies and pastes content from their sites directly onto HuffPo, with minimal attribution. Other critics complain about the outward liberal bias of this "news" Web site.
Last fall, Huffington Post launched its first city-specific site--right here in Chicago. The editor of Huffington Post is a Ben Goldburger, 25 and a former reporter for the Sun-Times.
Click around the site and pay specific attention to the content. Questions to consider:
Where is the content coming from?
Is there enough attributions? Should there be more attributions?
Do you think Huffington Post should pay for the content it links to or is it fair game?
What about the alleged liberal bias? Do you see it? If so, where?
What about the Chicago page in particular? What is your opinion of it? Is it comprehensive? Or do you need to supplement it with other Web sites?
Is there anything that Huffington Post could be doing better?
Huffington Post essentially acts as a news aggregator, culling editorial content from across the Web and presenting it at one location. It supplements the aggregator with a network of liberal bloggers, including several celebs.
It is a very controversial Web site in that the content it aggregates is not paid for. Many media outlets complain that Huffington Post copies and pastes content from their sites directly onto HuffPo, with minimal attribution. Other critics complain about the outward liberal bias of this "news" Web site.
Last fall, Huffington Post launched its first city-specific site--right here in Chicago. The editor of Huffington Post is a Ben Goldburger, 25 and a former reporter for the Sun-Times.
Click around the site and pay specific attention to the content. Questions to consider:
Where is the content coming from?
Is there enough attributions? Should there be more attributions?
Do you think Huffington Post should pay for the content it links to or is it fair game?
What about the alleged liberal bias? Do you see it? If so, where?
What about the Chicago page in particular? What is your opinion of it? Is it comprehensive? Or do you need to supplement it with other Web sites?
Is there anything that Huffington Post could be doing better?
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