AN OPEN WAR-ONLINE
Vs OFFLINE MEDIA
The offline media have traditionally
provided a trusted and reliable source of information but the fast moving world
demands the need of online media. Today almost every offline media houses have
their own websites. The basic difference between online and offline media is
the difference in platform. Paper is for print journalism and web for online journalism.
In both print and web information is organised as an inverted pyramid with most
important information at the top but there are many differences in content and
style of writing.
PLEASE CHECK THE LINKS GIVEN BELOW -
ANALYSIS IS BASED ON THESE LINKS
1.HEADLINE
PRINT-Parrikar gets Def, Prabhu chugs in
WEB-PM Narendra Modi expands Cabinet, shrinks some ministers
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In online version the headline is
direct and gives a clear gist of the news. On web, readers skim over rather
than read thoroughly. Readers are impatient and wander from page to page.
Therefore it is necessary to inform them the entire news content in a single
line. If we look at the print headline, one who doesn’t read newspaper regularly
cannot understand the news. Many short forms are also used in print headline to
reduce space.
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Headlines are direct and straight
forward on web
2. PRESENTATION OF
NEWS
PRINT-News content is elaborative with a
few important photographs. Essential details are given in a separate column
that helps readers to understand the main events happened.
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Only
important news story is given on front page, other related stories are in pages
inside the newspaper. Instead of hyperlinks(on web) page numbers are given on
front page(for related stories).
WEB
·
Not
very elaborative
·
Fast
readability
·
Use
of subheadings
·
Writing
in chunks-This helps the readers to jump straight to the story parts they are
interested in without having to wade through irrelevant information.
·
More
photographs and list of ministers with interesting data
3.BYLINE
PRINT-PRATUL
SHARMA
The same news story is written by different journalists
in print and web.
4.LEAD
WEB-
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The
lead quickly summarizes the story.
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Shorter
lead
PRINT-The lead resembles as a continuation
of another story (Follow- up story)
5.BODY
WEB-
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Less
adjectives and adverbs
·
Lively
prose
·
usage
of strong verbs and sharp nouns
·
More
interactive with readers
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There
is no hyped language
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Short
and simple words
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Only
important points.
·
Structured
for scanning
·
Flexible
approach, because news stories are read on a small screen
PRINT
·
Organized
information
·
Importance
for language and usage of words
·
Elaborated
content
6.QUOTES
WEB-Less quotes
PRINT-More quotes and tried to emphasize
quotes by putting them separately in another box
7 .SOURCE OF INFORMATION
WEB-Source of information is given (for
ex. With inputs from pib.nic.in)
PRINT-Source of information is not given
anywhere.
8.
CONCLUSION
WEB-Less
important details are given in the last paragraph
PRINT-Concludes
the news story and also given the page number where more related stories are
given.
9. FEEDBACK/COMMENTS (interactivity)
WEB-
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Users
can share and like the news story (tweet,fb like,google +)
Dear
Editor: Can you please explain, how Science, Technology and Earth Sciences is a
“Low Profile” work?)
-PROMOTES USER
PARTICIPATION
PRINT-
·
Readers
cannot comment. The only way to comment is letter to editor.
10. HYPERTEXT
WEB-
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Readers
can jump from one story to another story using hypertext
·
Hypertext
offers different pathways for readers.
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Simultaneous
targeting of different groups of readers(those only interested in headlines and
those interested in the deeper layers of information and sources)
PRINT-Readers can’t access extra information
about a news story. The importance of news determines the length of story.
11. MULTIMEDIA
WEB-More multimedia elements. (Photographs, videos, audio
etc)
PRINT-Only important photographs
12. RSS FEEDS and ARCHIVES
WEB-
·
RSS
feeds are available
·
Old
data or news stories can find very easily.
PRINT-
·
Difficult
to find old data.
13. ADVERTISEMENTS
WEB-Most of the advertisements draw
readers’ attention (ads are shown after analysing their cookies).
PRINT-Advertisements are for ordinary
readers (not for a specific group)
