These recent weeks I have been tracking the differences in two different websites. Both are news sites, dallasnews.com and startelegram.com. Over the Texas-OU weekend DMN showed the debate coverage on their front page.
Star Telegram showed coverage of the game itself. The day after both papers showed game results and the implications. This past week in the final weeks of gubernatorial elections the Star Telegram dropped the ball again opting for Dallas Cowboys game coverage on their frontpage.
DMN called attention to the political scene. Continious tracking of the two sites for a few weeks to decide who did better overall in reporting the news is my objective.
Therefore the weeks that I have taken a look at the two websites obvious differences appear. The two papers have different opinions on what is most important. News is primary for the DMN, whereas the Star Telegram wants to be the cool place to go to find out what happened in the social scene.
The sites are up to date, they have to be, because newspapers should be in order to keep their audiences. The football games scores were posted almost immediatly after the games were finished. The political debates posted the next morning, my guess is because there had to be some analysis.
The Star Telegram had in depth coverage on some local stories, local meaning around Ft Worth. On events outside of Ft Worth there was not so much depth but rather facts.
DMN had in depth coverage on all stories around the metroplex, including Ft Worth. I would have to say that they have a bigger staff or just care a little bit more than the Star Telegram.
If I had to choose only one website to get my news, it would undoubtly be the DMN website. There I can find information faster and in less clicks. The click through rate was only 1 or 2 to get to a story. I put two in there because sometimes the site asked me to register. I had an account with both websites prior to the tracking assignment, but chose not to sign-in in order to see how much news I can get without registering.
While registering with both of the sites, both asked for the same amount of information. Things like address, age, gender, occupation, and most importantly an e-mail address.
Star Telegram showed coverage of the game itself. The day after both papers showed game results and the implications. This past week in the final weeks of gubernatorial elections the Star Telegram dropped the ball again opting for Dallas Cowboys game coverage on their frontpage.
DMN called attention to the political scene. Continious tracking of the two sites for a few weeks to decide who did better overall in reporting the news is my objective.
Therefore the weeks that I have taken a look at the two websites obvious differences appear. The two papers have different opinions on what is most important. News is primary for the DMN, whereas the Star Telegram wants to be the cool place to go to find out what happened in the social scene.
The sites are up to date, they have to be, because newspapers should be in order to keep their audiences. The football games scores were posted almost immediatly after the games were finished. The political debates posted the next morning, my guess is because there had to be some analysis.
The Star Telegram had in depth coverage on some local stories, local meaning around Ft Worth. On events outside of Ft Worth there was not so much depth but rather facts.
DMN had in depth coverage on all stories around the metroplex, including Ft Worth. I would have to say that they have a bigger staff or just care a little bit more than the Star Telegram.
If I had to choose only one website to get my news, it would undoubtly be the DMN website. There I can find information faster and in less clicks. The click through rate was only 1 or 2 to get to a story. I put two in there because sometimes the site asked me to register. I had an account with both websites prior to the tracking assignment, but chose not to sign-in in order to see how much news I can get without registering.
While registering with both of the sites, both asked for the same amount of information. Things like address, age, gender, occupation, and most importantly an e-mail address.
posted by Jesse Delgado @ 6:32 PM
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