The document analyzes different news articles covering the Boston Marathon bombings and notes their approaches. The Times article focuses only on facts without commentary. The Guardian live blog constantly updates with new information every few minutes and uses an emotional, sentimental tone in eyewitness quotes. Boston.com promotes donations and features posts about young victims with a realistic, sentimental tone.

3. • Objective perspective
• Just mentions the facts
• No commenting
http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/news/world/americas/article3740857.ece

4. 1. Sentimental tone
“Martin’s mother, Denise, and
six-year-old sister, Jane, are in
hospital with “grievous injuries”.”
2. Pictures of the boy and his family
3. Description in detail of the exact
way it happened
http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/news/world/americas/article3740425.ece

5. 1. Intense mentioning
2. Representational tone
3. Sentimental way of
presenting – moving title
“We’ve had an attack,” says another dazed,
horrified voice on another piece of video
footage. ”Oh my god, oh my god, oh my god.”

6. • Main article on the
front page
• Video of the exlosion
• Functions as a gate
for the live blog

7. http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/us-news-blog/2013/apr/16/boston-
marathon-explosions-hunt-begins-for-perperators-live-updates

8. • Constant enrichment of one article
• Addition of new information (every 2 minutes approximately)
• Extremely sentimental tone
“I yelled, that's my wife, can I please go with her? And I got in the ambulance. She was
cool as a cucumber. In my mind I'm trying to be calm for her but I'm freaking out.”
Testimony of Nicholas Yanni, a patient and eyewitness
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/us-news-blog/2013/apr/16/boston-marathon-
explosions-hunt-begins-for-perperators-live-updates

9. Posts about young victims – in a very realistic way –
sentimental tone

10. Promotions the motivating movement of Boston.com about
donations

11. • One whole category about Boston
• Mentions Obama’s statements and cites the
president’s transcript – objective perspective

12. Maria Loufardaki
Paraskevi Georgiou
Athina Karakosta
Linda Mata
Eirini Martaki
Mania Ksenou
Betty Tsakarestou