Saturday 23 August 2014

Newspaper articles: some new (and old) ways of reading and writing




Nowadays more and more people read the news on the Net, so the way we read and even write a newspaper article is definitely changing.

There are plenty of digital tools you can use to read or even write newspaper articles. I am going to show you just some of them.


READING



Here you can read the breaking news from the world:
http://www.breakingnews.com/

Here you can filter the news by language, country or newspapers:
http://newspapermap.com/

WRITING



A simple way for journalists, designers and creators to weave interactive stories:

You may also try Storymap. It is a free tool to help you tell stories on the web that highlight the locations of a series of events. You can use it to tell a story with photographs, historic maps, or other image files. 

Some free digital tools to create your digital magazine;






Ok, we have just seen some digital tools we could use to read or to write newspapers articles. But now let's see something more general.
Do you really know how to read a newspaper? 
Could you really write a good news article?

HOW TO READ A NEWSPAPER

Have a look at my mindmap:




How to read the News On-line vs in Print

HOW TO WRITE  NEWS ARTICLES

How to write articles the quick and easy way

How to write the perfect newspaper article

Now have a look at the following mindmaps I made for you: