Do we think in links? The Economist is rebranding itself and paid some creative people to do a video of a tight rope walker cruising and jumping deftly from rope to rope, moving to different directions and environments. Is that how it feels like when you’re surfing the Web? Sometimes it feels more like... »
That day, the torrentous rain in Melbourne gently reminds me of home. I was inside my workplace in Southbank, looking out to Melbourne’s darkened sky. My mother had just sent me an sms: “Everyone is ok, but the walls of the house are cracked. Books all over the floor.” The rain was the type... »
International news broadcasters like BBC World Service, Radio Australia (which I work for) and Voice Of America all share a major concern: keeping the aura of ‘well-establishment’ and ‘trust’ while exploring new ways of telling news. This is because they have their old audience to cater and historical reputation to uphold, but there is... »
Internet, more than any other medium, is able to give multi-layered treatments to news by hyperlinking news stories with related stories and multimedia elements1. Deciding on how much, what, and where to put links on the screen within a particular news story are not simple matters, however. They have great effects on the overall... »
BBC World Service Analysis Homepage On the homepage, hard news reporting is only a part of what the website offers. Latest news offering is on the right sidebar, and taken from another page. There is an option to customise the number of visible news stories,1but this homepage is not a great personal homepage for... »
In the previous posts, we have discussed three international broadcasters and identified three elements that make up a good multi-layering of news stories on websites (depth, sense of direction, and a wide -but not overwhelming, range of information.). We have also touch on the need to deliver content and writing which are concise, skimmable,... »
