Our group was formed to investigate News Websites. We want to know not only what the websites are reporting, but how they are reporting . This site will investigate how easy it is to move through different news sites, the perspective that the News Organizations take, how well they report their stories, and how user friendly the different websites are. In order to conduct such an investigation our group has elected to divide each news site into four categories and rank them according to certain criteria within each category. Below is a discription of each site that was viewed, the categories is was ranked in, and how well it ranked in each category. For a more in-depth analysis of each category, click on the link provided.

The different News Sites that we choose to concentrate on are the following:

Al-Jazeera - This is a major news netwoork in the middle east. It is respected by Middle Eastern Nations such as Iraq, Egypt, and other Muslim nations as being forthcoming and honest in its broadcasting. Due to popular demand by the English speaking nations, Al-Jazeera'a decided to create an English version of their website.

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France 3 - This is a website created by a French News network. We decided to include this website in order to give a our readers a global view of news websites.

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BBC  -The British BroadCast Channel is British's premier news network that is broadcasted around the world. It is also the site that has been voted as best overall by our group of website analysis. Its strong points were navigational ability and broad perspective.

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CNN - The News Channel that Americans have come to love ever since the first Gulf War. It is known for its around the clock news coverage. After careful consideration of all the sites, our group agrees that this is site probably the most comfortable to Americans. It didn't have the highest rating overall, but it did come in second mainly due to its appeal to the American style broadcasting that the site displays so proudly.

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Perspective

• Front page topics
• Point of view
• Objectiveness
• Biases

• Quality of writing?
• Does the reporter have the writing skills of a profesional, or an undergrade?
• How current is the information?
• Does the site still post stories on 9/11, instead sticking with current issues?
• How accurate is the information?
• Is one sites reported information about an issue conflicting with other sites?
• If so,Who is right?

• Does this website use implicit text for links as opposed to "click here" links?
• Does this website have a forum for user feedback?
• Does this website use scrolling marquees?
• Does this website use flexible window widths?
• Does this website use thumbnailed images?

Navigation

• What kind of links are used?
• Are the links easy to find & use?
• Are the links in some kind of order?
• Do the links allow some type of spatial format?
• Do the links add to the site, or hinder its readability?
• Do the links actually work?

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