Margaret’s 3rd year journalism blog

It also runs the Innovation in Newspapers blog, allowing for a quite comprehensive yet humorous bit of reading. It highlights another benefit of the online convergent world; news can be compared and scrutinised from all around the globe. The ‘Photo Editing’ blog, emphasises the power of posting multimedia with only a few simple words, making quick and punchy: http://www.innovationsinnewspapers.com/index.php/2008/10/12/photo-editing/. This post compares the image used to depict George Bush’s greeting at the G7 Summit, highlighting that one photo (in the Spanish paper El Pais) has been cropped so that it has a more symbolic and moving feel. In another Spanish newspaper La Vanguardia, the photo is uncropped and it presents a very different atmosphere, as the leaders seem to wait almost in boredom to shake President Bush’s hand.

 While surfing the net, I also found a great blog by the Sydney Morning Herald’s Bruce Wolpe, which follows the US election campaign. This is another example of a conistent, quality news blog. (http://blogs.smh.com.au/whitehouse08/)