Q Media Writing Lab Writing News for Online and Mobile Media Assignment 1 1. Go to a daily newspaper’s website and critique a few stories. Your instructor may specify which newspaper site to use. Examples: Omaha World-Herald, Lincoln Journal Star, New York Times. 2. Provide a clickable link to the website. 3. Answer the questions about how the writing measures up to the criteria for online writing. 4. Be specific and thorough in your writing and use AP style. 5. Please type your answers. a. Do the news items reflect immediacy? Explain and give examples. b. Does the site attempt to save readers time? Explain and give examples. c. Does it provide information that’s quick and easy to get? Explain and give examples. d. Does it provide information both visually and verbally? Explain and give examples. e. Were the stories too long? Were they cut sufficiently? Explain and give examples. f. Does the writing contain lists and bullets? Explain and give examples. If not, do you think that the stories you examined would have benefited from using lists and bullets? Explain and give examples. g. Are the stories layered or broken into chunks? Explain and give examples. If not, do you think the stories you examined would have been better written in chunks? Explain and give examples. h. Do the stories provide sufficient hyperlinks? If so, how did they improve the stories you examined. If not, do you think the stories could have benefited from using hyperlinks? Please explain your answer. i. Do readers have the chance to participate in a discussion or respond to the writers of the articles? Explain and give examples.