Independent Online (IOL)
IOL.co.za (Independent Online) is an online news site which publishes national and international newspapers. It is an online site for Independent Newspapers which includes newspapers such as a The Star newspaper, Pretoria News and The Mercury among others.
IOL news site has Home page, it has genres such as Crime/ Courts, Politics, South Africa, Africa, World, Opinion, Back Page, Special Features. IOL lacks multimedia such as links to YouTube which people can see videos of the stories covered. It has Facebook link were readers can like the site so they can get instant updates from the site, it’s an advantage for people who are able to access the site. Over 19 thousand people like the news site. The site doesn’t have blogs for at least one of its journalist so people can only read what the editor wrote on the columns and other columnist.
TIMES LIVE
Times Live is an online news site for The Times daily newspaper. The news site has a variety genres such as News, Politics, Sport, Business, Entertainment, Life Style, Travel, Food, Opinion and Blogs. It is an advantage to use Times Live as a news site because it has a link to view videos which they upload constantly and also some of the journalists have linked their blogs with the site so readers can read more news from the Blogs of the journalists. It also has iLIVE which allows readers to share their opinions by sending emails to the iLIVE team and also on each and every story readers can comment on the story on the comment box. Readers can also recommend the story to their Facebook friends and Times Live stories can be shared on twitter.
Daily Maverick
Daily Maverick news site has Home page, genres such as Wired world, South Africa, Africa, Business, World, Sports, and Life, Opinionistas, iMaverick, and Newsletter. The advantage of Daily Maverick is if you are subscribing to this site, they send you emails every morning. Giving readers update before they start the day, updates about what happened during the night and what will happen later.. The other good thing about the site is that they keep in touch with their readers through face book and Twitter.
The disadvantage of this site is that they don’t have a blog and video. Their readers get informed only by reading not by watching a video. Daily maverick gives a lot of in
