Newspaper Critiques

I hope I understood the assignment correctly, I looked at two newspapers and comparedd their sites. I looked at USA Today, and the Caledonian Record. (I note ahead that this may be an unfair comparison since obviously they're on different levels as far as audience, budget, etc.) USA Today had a great website, the opening page was really easy to navigate and it had all sorts of options. It was easy to find the section for video, slide shows, etc. Each one had a separate section on the opening screen. A lot of the stories had video and they made it fast and easy to get the story. The site is regularly updated and so is presenting up to the minute news stories. The Caledonian Records site was much less impressive. It doesn't give you all the stories from the newspaper unless perhaps you subscribe to it. There is very little use of multimedia. They did have a section with slide shows but they had little or not text accompanying them and no audio. The only video on the site came from the AP site and was really just a link these stories were good but they weren't actually a product of the caledonian record. I would say it was due to budget restraints except that in this class we've shown that anyone can create multimedia projects with just a little knowledge and effort.