Sthembiso Sithole
@Sitholesthe
Online news is the fast growing new tool to access news. News is constantly updated every minute. Live coverage and breaking news are what has made life easy for many new consumers. South Africa and the journalism that exits in the country are growing although there are many questions about its reporting.
Fast growing technology has and still plays a huge role in South African online news. Today there are many online news sources that use different elements such as photos, audio and so on.Incorparating multimedia text, photos, audio, video, graphs have resulted to multimedia.
Media 24 is no acceptation when it comes to multimedia. It incorporates different elements of multimedia. This online news source has always been the best according to journalism student at the Tshwane University of Technology. Theirs stories are accurate and well balanced. It was a supplement to their text-base stories that News 24 realized that combination of audio narrative with images can make video packages more powerful than written text.
The good thing about journalism that exits in South Africa is that it has grown and played a huge role in making South Africans express their views without fear. Today we have citizens who participate in all media houses through writing letters, emailing, calling and also being part of the programs or topics being discussed in the studio.
Although many citizens may participate in the media that we have, there are still many issues that are being discussed about the kind of journalism that exits in the country. The ANC ruling party and other citizens have went out to support the Proposed Media Tribunal and the Protection State of the Information bill. One of the key things that are discussed is how journalists report and cover events and public figures. The media regulatory bodies are always faced with cases from politicians complaining about the way the media defamed them.
Timeslive has been one of the biggest online news source that many South African use to access news. As I went through the online news source, I noticed that in most cases they have gallery. In most of the leading stories they ensure that they have gallery of the person or event. A great example will be how they reported and added different elements in the report of Whitney Houston’s death. They showed different photos (gallery) of her. I believe that was creative and that made them different from other online news sources.
Sowetan is also one of the easiest online news that many people use to access news. The exciting thing about this online news source it also have a blog. The blog has different posts about some of the stories that could not be in the newspaper and in the entire online. The posts in the blog are a true reflection of what the community wants to read about. It is constantly updated.I believe it also has increased the number readers for both the newspaper and the online department. It also has a section called Shwashwi that is about gossip.
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