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Investigating the online news and Journalism that exist in South Africa today

The online news industry is dominating the journalism industry these days. Print is slightly losing it touch. Most print newspapers have also taken the online path as they now have online publications. The question is how are they going to save print from online?  Well that a story for another day but today my main focus is on the different online sites that we have in this country to name a few we have news24, IOL, the eye witness news and many more .

The question I had been asking during this investigation was how the layout of the publication is, do they use multimedia.

NEWS24

The publication has a catchy bright layout with breaking stories as pop us on top of the page. It also has different features on it from entertainment, jobs, property and special report. As a reader when you on the site you don’t fell bored and logout because of the lack of entertainment on their page. They use videos and pictures that shows they use multimedia.

http://www.news24.com/

IOL NEWS

I found the site boring the layout did not attract me as the reader; I felt it is too colorful as we know too much of something spoils things. I saw the pop ads appearing while reading stories and I found that irritating .The content of the site I liked it , it has different  features  like the  home column for news, health, family , food and drinks and also opinion pieces . I found news24 and IOL entertaining although they might lack somewhere but they not all bad .The multimedia they use is videos and pictures.

http://www.iol.co.za/

Eye witness news

I really found the site boring and dull the multimedia lacks mostly they use pictures not videos. The site main focus is on breaking news unlike news24 which also has soft stories.  They do not have ads popping up while one is reading the stories which can make you end up losing interest in the stories.

http://www.ewn.co.za/

In conclusion to my research I think there is still more to be done on these to attract us. The online journalism is the way forward