I did an investigation on a few news websites found here in south africa. I used three websites and they all had more or less the same thing and a very few things were different.I used the websites Newa24,EWN, and the SABC.
The first website I went to was News24 which,and not taking anythin away from them,is not very good designed and do not have a lot of visible options in their side bars.
There was one great thing though about website is,unlike other news publication's websites,they often have to go deep into the details of almost every particular story if it develops or not and also decides on what angle it is to be used. They also a great balance between Local,african, or international content but they have a very poor sport-content balance because they give less attention to entertainment and sports.
The second website I looked at was the Eye witness news (ewn) website. Here you get news every minute of the day,but being a constant reader of the site myself I usually find some rathe feelings that they are targeting a white community and that may be because of the fact that when he cover sport stories they nevr cover local soccer unless it is a huge stories that ot only south africans are interested in.
The setup of their website is boring,it is too pure,which might turn out to be a good thing,but still they used colours that are not really appealing and do not really call you to come and read it. However, they have,by far, the best options bars because it has all been put on one page and it is clear which means it will be simple for everyone to see it. One thing that is very clear is that they are about news and that can be justified by the fact that they have very few and small advertisements on the site.
Out of all three news websites I visited the SABC one was the best one because they have the best links and they use the right colour for their website design and their news genres and catergories are well too clear.the only thing the lack however is the availability of advertisements in the site and that can sometimes work in their disadvantage.
Reading the SABC website you can also see that they are a public broadcast who target local audienc ,this you see because of the fact that they have local news as leading stories and internatonal stories are just there but not as a priority.
http://www.sabc.co.za/news
http://www.ewn.co.za/
http://www.news24.com/
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