The two students discussed online news qualities of immediacy, flexibility, permanency, capacity, and interactivity according to Stovall. The first student compared TMZ and Fox News, finding Fox News more immediate. They emphasized fact-checking sources before publishing. The second student focused on capacity and interactivity online versus print. They noted online news' greater space and inclusion of photos/videos. Interactivity allows finding other coverage and tracking site visits.

1. Write:
After reading two of your peers’ stories, write a 250- to 300-
word critique on the articles they presented. Be sure to mention
aspects of the story that were engaging as well as those things
you believe could have been improved.
FIRST STDUDENT TO RSPOND TO NEEDING DONE
NOW ASAP
I chose to view two totally different types of online news sites.
TMZ and Fox News were the two I looked at. As far as
immediacy that Stovall (2014) suggests as one of the five
needed online news qualities, Fox news appear to be the best.
TMZ is in my opinion not a real “news” outlet but more of an
entertainment outlet. So of the things that are on TMZ my not
appear as fast as those on a regular news broadcast station such
as Fox News.
TMZ did have a lot of interactivity on there site. Too much I
think.
To me the biggest thing with online news is that we as
journalist need to make sure the fact are correct before things
get posted so quick and readers need to know the difference
between a real news outlet and a citizen journalist and/or
blogger.
Technology in the field of journalism is good, but journalist
must remember to make sure they check sources and research
thoroughly before hitting the send or publish button. This is
something that those working for new print organizations only
have more time to do. Where a printed newspaper has a
turnaround cycle of 24-hours, the digital news service has a
turnaround tie of seconds. (
Palmer, J. W., & Eriksen, L. (1999).

2. I think another thing that is different with online news is that
more photos can be used as compared to space in a print paper
or a graphic in a broadcast story.
Stovall, (2014) states, Photography on the Web is restricted by
the size of the computer screen that the user has. Consequently,
news web sites must show pictures at smaller sizes than they
would in print, and photo editors must adjust accordingly. The
advantage of the Web, of course, is that it can handle far more
pictures than print can.
SECOND STUDENT TO RESPOND TO
We are now in a world where the World Wide Web is growing
rapidly and is part of everyone's life (Stovall, 2014). As media
grows everyone becomes a journalist, where members of social
media accounts become the reporters. As Stovall mentions
despite where you get your news from online there are five
characteristics that make them unique: and they are immediacy,
flexibility, permanency, capacity, and interactivity (p.126).
Upon researching and skimming through many different news
sites, I was drawn back to two of the qualities Stovall mentions.
Those two qualities are capacity and interactivity. On the
websites, I begin to compare them with print media and right
off the back I thought about space sites have compared to
newspapers. When reporters are given an article to write in the
newspapers, they are told how much space they will have for
that report. The editor will create a layout for the entire paper
and decide the amount of space per article per section. That is
not the case for online news. There is tremendous amount of
space for online material. One report can be many pages long
including the ads that are on the page. The web also offers more
to the story, such as pictures and videos. I have noticed print
media has a ratio of print to illustration.

3. Interactivity stood out because of the many different ways a
person can get that information. For example, if you google a
particular news event there will be some other outlets connected
to the same story. But in the paper, you will have to physically
purchase those other newspapers to see what the other outlets
are saying. I also noticed the visitor count on one news outlet.
As mentioned in Writing for the Mass Media producers put
those trackers on the website to record the number of visits and
time spent on the site (p. 126). According to a Pew Research,
those trackers can also show the popularity of that websites. In
a research done in January 2015, HuffingtonPost.com was rated
as the most popular online news outlet. These two qualities help
eliminate storing of old print material and allowing you to
control the content you want to see. Which in my opinion beats
television news any day.
Andrea Parrish
Reference:
Edmond, R. (2015, April 29). State of News Media 2015- A new
ranking of digital sites. Retrieved April 20, 2017, from
https://www.poynter.org/2015/state-of-the-news-media-2015-a-
new-ranking-of-digital-sites/339941/
Stovall, J. G. (2014-07-01).
Writing for the Mass Media 9th Edition.
[Bookshelf Online]. Retrieved from
https://onlinevitalsource.com/#/books/9781323198841/
Write:
After reading two of your peers’ stories, write a 250- to 300-
word critique on the articles they presented. Be sure to mention
aspects of the story that were engaging as well as those things
you believe could have been improved.