For years the privilege of being a journalist and have the card was to have access to information in much greater quantity and quality than any other ordinary citizen. This distinction no longer holds today and obtain information via the web is getting easier. As we know, the amount of information circulating on the internet is huge, so every aspiring journalist should first learn to exploit a valuable resource: sites news agency. They are an inexhaustible source of first-hand that you can then enrich, change and constitute the starting point for analysis personally. Think that there are only two minutes of difference between the output of the agency takes of subscribers for journalists and news that are published on the site and accessible to all.
Since the great resource we have available, it is worth learning to know you better. Today I looked at the online pages of four international news agencies: Reuters, EFE, Bloomberg and AFP . The main features of the news agencies, which differ from the printed newspaper and online, are speed, speed, simplicity and synthesis . Even on their sites these features are essential and successful. The agency
more satisfactory from this point of view is Bloomberg . Your site is very clear and well structured makes surfing the web. There are no ticker flowing but the breaking news are instantly accessible, located to the left immediately after the horizontal bar of the menu. Below LIVE TV, and EXCLUSIVE TOP STORIES FROM THE WEB, while appearing on the right graphs the trend in global stock markets and exchange rates of national currencies. The first page is concise, comprehensive and for further details you can access the various areas of interest menu, which is located at the top of the first page.
In second place, keeping in mind the needs of those who want information, there is Reuters. These agencies have the front page a ticker, which runs continuously in the news, but there is a list of breaking news on which to click. Two arrows are placed in the ticker that can be used to scroll the news back and forth or to speed up the scrolling. The lack of a list that you can quickly scroll through the eyes, however, lack a sufficiently serious. The agency prefers to focus on some top stories, enriched by photos and / or video. This option allows you to maintain clean and clear, however, the first page. If you want to access other news you can choose various countries or areas of interest from the left menu.
Regarding the English press agency, EFE, the , imprinting of traditional journalism is still very strong. This site does not have the ticker and the list of breaking news is not immediately apparent when you open the page (you have to scroll down to find "Ultima Hora"). In the foreground is preferred to dwell on a specific news with photos. As positive elements is noted that the first page is short and has all the links to access the various areas of interest. As a site of a news agency is not satisfactory as it does not allow the visitor to immediately see the latest news and is not competitive compared to a daily on-line.
conclude with the French agency AFP site that offers a poor news and prefers to use the online space to present the possible media interested in buying a subscription. Be avoided, since even the Top News are very few and provided only as an example for aspiring buyers.
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