Blog V. Ezine

The news blog that I found, The Chronicle of Higher Education, was very interesting to me. The home page offers a variety of news to choose from, with a plethora of story links scattered about the page. The side bar offers a list categories that is very well organized, for people who have trouble finding what they want on the home page. You can look at Government and Politics, international, athletic, or even information technology news. There is even a section at the bottom of the side bar that allows the viewers to see corrections that the blog team had to make to their articles. Viewers can comment on stories and interact with one another about what they believe. Finally, most of the stories seem to be very up to date, with several stories already uploaded from this morning. Current news is important, and with this site you get current news from all different aspects of life.

It was very difficult for me to find an Ezine with news, especially any that were current, as it seems most places have switched to blogging. In the one that I found, American Journal, most of the stories came from February 2009, with one article added June 2009. The news was quite interesting however, and wasn’t news that you usually see. The American Journal focuses more on the news that gives America its culture and what the people in the country are like. It is more of an artsy cultural Ezine, but still very interesting and informative.

The blog and the Ezine that I came across were very different from one another. The blog was definitely more professional and effective, as it allowed the readers to interact with one another while they were learning about the world, and the news was all very current, unlike the Ezine. The Ezine was far easier for me to read, as it provided photographs on every story, to demonstrate what was being said. I love photographs and this made the stories more interesting to me. I guess that’s why I’m studying photojournalism.
The blog and Ezine did not cover the same current events, at least not that I could tell from the dates. The blog had a wide variety of important news that affects the people of the country, and the Ezine offered news that showed the character of the people of the country. I felt that both the blog and the Ezine were trustworthy, the Ezine for when it was posted of course. I don’t feel like a print source would be more credible, because it is the same information at first. If anything, the blog and Ezine are more credible because it allows the authors to update the information quickly if need be, where as once a print source is out, there is no changing it. The blog even takes it a step further by allowing people to comment, which could turn out to have people telling a side of the story that was otherwise unknown. The blog and the Ezine were both very nice to look at and browse through. However, it is clear that the blog is overtaking the Ezine in the world.

*The links to the blog and Ezine are on the side bar*