North Korea's Kim and heir appear at lavish parade

http://www.foxnews.com/world/2010/10/10/nkoreas-kim-heir-apparent-son-lavish-parade/#content




I think the website of fox news is very American style website, with dazzled ads and other information. But one good thing is it provides a detailed information of the photo, such as the place, the people who in the photo and the derivation of the photo, which help people to know better about the background of the story.



Another positive point of the news report is you can find they provide an editor note to explain the situation the journalists were when the news happened, very special and very considerable.



The whole news described detailed information of the parade, the clothing of the leading role in the news story, with interviews of politician from different countries and even the slogan can be a news point to indicate something behind. Fox New comments are a bit depressing. It's like nobody can have a serious conversation without giving different leaders cute nicknames.



An episode of description of Japanese reporting of this news tends to make a conflict atmosphere in the news, which makes the news more appealing.



This parade just seemed like a showcase of the new North Korea to the rest of the world. Other professor, said in the interview that The parade served as a sign that the military has loyalty to the successor, which I believe will tighten the relationship between north and south Korea, china and America as well.

Here are other opinions about this news, which I can’t agree more:

it would be impressive if this dynastic dictatorship could survive this succession. It would be the first one in modern history to survive three successions. Even if North Korea does remain stable after this, their infrastructure is crumbling and the Chinese are getting tired of it. However, the Chinese don't want millions of North Koreans rushing their borders when the regime does collapse - neither do the South Koreans. So, it could go either way. We just have to wait and see what happens.

Anyway I think this news shows a good example of how to describe a story in a more profound way.

Emirates prosecutor charges 2 journalists with publishing 'false news,' mulls more subpoenas

http://www.cbc.ca/cp/world/i61120.html






in my opinion, CBC NEWS is designed more simple than other news website. Although there four main color-black, red, grey and white used in this website, every color is divide clearly and matched each other very well. The title of the news is a little bit longer and more complicated while the news itself is very short and simple, without any pictures or other additional information. I am just thinking about whether it is because the CBC NEWS is mainly focus on the domestic news, they didn’t pay much attention to informing world news. However, although it is simple designed, readers can still get many accesses linked to other news and categories and columns are also clearly divided by different colors. The sharing links are also easily found in both the top and the bottom of the news story.

I find that most of the world news in this website is short and only about one country, comparing to other website which usually focus on the changing of the relationship. This news is about the DUBAI, United Arab Emirates who is not the leading role of the world news we usually see in the news websites. The story is about two journalists were two journalists have been charged with publishing an incorrect report. It is not uncommon to see the journalists make wrong report in most of the countries in the world, but the most usual way to dealt with this kind of mistakes with slight criticism in the internal publications, no one would appeal to law, that is where the news value of this story is. Actually the value of the story is not only in its special disposing way but also in reminding the journalists all of the world that the importance of reporting news in correct way, without bias, which are ethical principles that can be found in different ethical codes indifferent counties. The story didn’t tell many details about the result but it is a good story worth deeply considerations.

China Reportedly Releases 3 Japanese

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/01/world/asia/01chinajapan.html?ref=world




as far as I am concerned , among those websites I analysis before, the new York times is the one I like best, because it designed with a clear framework, no much ads and colorful decorations. The website of New York Times only uses two colors-white and black, which is very suitable for a hard news website. The column is also designed very easy find. Another very thoughtful thing is that if you came across words you don’t understand, you can just choose them and double click, then you will see the explanations of the words from the New York Times dictionary.

Recently, the tightened relationship between china and Japan has raised public concern the entire world. The title- china reportedly releases 3 Japanese are very clearly conveying information that it seems the relationship between china and Japan has been eased. So this title is very eye-catching title for those who are keeping paying attention to the international current affairs. The first paragraph explains the identification of those Japanese which shows a good connection with the title. Then the story line turns to talk about the background of the arrest and the positions of china and Japan through describing the speech of two side’s minister.

“The dispute between the countries stems from conflicting territorial claims over a chain of uninhabited islands in the East China Sea that Japan controls. “This sentence is a very good changeover and is a very informative conclusion at the same time.

In the last paragraph, it story tend to talk about other conflicts and in terms of trade which reflects the relationship of china and Japan in an different aspect, emphasized the theme of this article and can be seen as a end with continuous meaning.

Scourge of China's academic fakes attacked

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/scourge-of-chinas-academic-fakes-attacked-2087047.html




The independent is a Britain news website; it uses a very special color-gold- as the main color of the website, which is very different from other hard news website, giving a strong impression for readers.



And the top right side it provides weather Google search bar, information and the temperature of London, its convenience helps to raise the subscription. The design of the column is very similar to other websites, but it is more dedicate in detail, such as the providing of adjust for font sizes, catering for people from different age groups, but the only trouble is that within all kinds of ads, the whole website seems a little bit mess. And the links for Facebook and twitter and other personal profile websites seemed a necessity of every news websites, in a repetitive format.

The story is talking about Beijing police have arrested four men, including a professor, over a hammer attack on China's top "science cop", a whistle-blower famed for exposing religious fakes, academic charlatans and bogus researchers. The story starts with an attack to the main character of this news and then extracts the low-down behind this attack; it is a very dramatic and appealing opening. A close up photo of fangzhouzi and the description of his website give a direct idea about who the person is and his story. China has a very complicated journalism environment, which is because of its state’s basic political and cultural condition. What fang are doing can be observed as a hero- to disclose the fraud in academic circles. The news angle is very representative and meaningful.

The story is arranged systematic orderly, telling the whole story with the interviews of the policemen and the person involved and the ending is very critical and informative.

Japan concerned at China's growing military reach

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20100910/wl_asia_afp/japanmilitarychina


The yahoo news website doesn’t have very unique style; conversely, it just looks a little bit disorder with all kinds of ads tumbling between titles and categories. The main color of this website is white and blue. However, the colors for dividing different columns are not very obvious. The picture for helping descript the news was too small to get clear information about the idea of the story and the light grey description of the picture does not works very well for its own sake. The font size of the word is also too small for reading in a comfortable way.



The design of placing the sharing ways of yahoo news, dislike the website of SBS, which places both in the front and the end of the article. This kind of design gives more impressive ideas of sharing to readers and increases the chance of being shared. Another interesting thing worth to mentioning is every place name in this article was highlighted and linking to other news related.



Talking about the articles itself, the first feeling rushed into my mind is that it is informative but rather long and dull and boring. The news is talking about the concern of Japan, worrying about the stronger Chinese military because Chinese government didn’t give a transparent spent on military construction. The story start with an introduction of annual Defense of Japan report, I don’t believe it is a good beginning because most of the readers would probably feel boring about reading an analysis of report. The opening of a news story should be eye-catch and induce the curiosity of the readers and let them have interest of moving on.

The information is not well-organized because the statistics, the names of places and the interview are disordered. In a word, although the military news are very difficult to be wrote interesting, this news make it worse with information cluttered in the article.

Anger in HK over Manila hostage deaths

WS RESOURCE


http://www.sbs.com.au/news/article/1334712/Anger-in-HK-over-Manila-hostage-deaths

I really like the design of the SBS website because the light blue makes the whole website looks very vivacious, even it is a hard news sites. Coupled with the news story is not a photo related to the event but a video, which makes the audiences get to know and understand the news easier. The highlights under the video linked to more information contribute the perfection of the original intention of the news.



This is a news shocked the whole Chinese world. And news about this event spread almost all the media vector and all kinds of activities about denouncements and mourn are held in both the cyber and real world.

The perspective of this news is no other than writing about all kinds of boycott activities, which gives a side description of the significant influence of this hostage death. Such as “The Hong Kong government raised a "black" travel alert for the Philippines, urging against all travel to one of Southeast Asia's most popular tourist spots.”



Voices from the entire world suspect that this tragedy could definitely be avoided if it were not for the failure decision of the Philippians policemen. And nothing could be made to compensate the lost of the families.



After the description of the process of the tragedy, the news angle changed to the governments’ attitude about this death and the detailed illustration of the moral action of the survivors, which can greatly impressive the readers because at this moment how to deal with the post processing seems became the focus of the public.



This news story seized two important aspects of this hostage death with an overall introduction video help to induce the constant attention about the factoids. And under the article there are several ways to share the whole article make sure the effective communications.

ABC NEWS lipstick? It could be full of beetle juice! （share）

你的唇膏里有甲壳虫汁吗
Do you love your bright, red lipstick? It could be full of beetle juice! After being boiled, dried out and crushed, cochineal beetles produce an enzyme that creates a beautiful crimson color that can be used as a powder or liquid called carmine to add to lipstick. Beetle juice can be found in more than 300 lipstick products, including lip liners, lipsticks and mascaras. Pictured here is a Dogbane leaf beetle。

The following are colours which are recommended to avoid: CI 45425, Brilliant Blue FD&C (CI 42090), Acid Yellow 23 (CI 19140) and Sunset Yellow (CI 15985). However, there are so many questions hanging over synthetic and coal tar colours that it is certainly not exhaustive.


The most common brands of lipstick, like Maybelline, Cover Girl, and Revlon, are produced using ingredients that are questionable at best and horrifying at worst. Natural makeup companies offer safer, healthier varieties of lipstick, but they are harder to come by and often more expensive. If your makeup bag contains a tube of conventional red lipstick, here's what you're unknowingly ingesting.

China's Massive Traffic Jam Could Last for Weeks

News source


http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory?id=11465800



Very different from the simple and clear style of the website designs of CNN and BBC, the website of ABC international news seems very “colourful”, however, from an other perspective, it also can been seems as a promiscuous combination of all kinds of news stories. And the main colours of the website-dark grey and dark blue are not so apparent for highlighting the main story. As a popular design almost all the news website would place the classification column under the title of the website, and in the ABC‘s case, it then followed by not the main story content but by a series of clips of hot news videos, which may lead to a eyes confused.



In the other hand, a significant point of the website worth to mention is it has a very close connection of the other hot-button websites, such as the facebook, twitter and email, serving as a good way to enlarge the news popularity as more and more people can share and save their favourite news story to their personal space.



After news title, the author use a sentence to summary the news story itself, simple but eye-catching by using a specific number, which greatly induces the curiosity of readers to move on.



A photo of the scene about the traffic jam makes the whole story more vivid, and in the description of the photo, the news content was also highlighted



Traffic jam is a very common phenomenon in most of countries and seems has no news value, however, in the very beginning of the story it gives a introduction of the whole news, which at the same time , can be seen as a introduction of the specialty of the this news. In the story, the author used a wide rage of numbers to show the serious of this traffic jam and make the news more convinced. Besides, the detailed illustration of” walking around, or playing cards and chess” the traffic jam makes the whole news more interesting and impressive.