The newspaper website that I will be examining in the United States in the Lincoln Journal Star (http://journalstar.com/) and from Bournemouth, England the Daily Echo (http://www.bournemouthecho.co.uk/).
When I chose the Daily Echo I really had no idea what to expect. This is acutally the first time that I have ever looked at a newspaper from another country. As I look at the sports page online I see alot of soccer coverage. Especially about the local team the Cherries. There are six main sports stories on the sports page and it is all about the Cherries, their players, the management and the coaches. Not only are there stories about those teams but there is a blog about the team and their upcoming matches.
What I find very interesting is that it doesn't have any sports information about what is happening around the world, like the Australian Open or even the NFL Playoffs. They seem report only what is happening in their area of the world.
One of the things that I do like on the page is that it has a running list of job opportunities available for people who are looking. This is a great placement. A majority of people do read the sports section and this allows them to also see what is available in the job market.
There are advertisements for a cell phone company that I have never heard of and two ads for chiropratic care and self defense lessons. The last ad I saw was about online learning for college at home. All-in-all I did not care for this sports page, but I am sure that if I lived in that area then the Cherries would be all that I cared about.
The Lincoln Journal Star is a newspaper that is located in Lincoln, Nebraska. When I clicked on the sports tab, underneath pops up four different sub categories that you can click on to find out more information on the sports team. It has Husker Extra, Prep Extra, Youth Sports, and Star City Golfer. When you click on Husker Extra it gives you all of the information that you could possibly want about the Nebraska Cornhusker athletic teams. It includes, blogs, video, schedules, stats, and recuriting information. On the Prep Extra it has information about the surrounding high school athletic teams. The Youth Sports section includes information about sporting events and programs going on at the local recreation centers and how you can sign your child up. Star City Golfer features information about all of the golf that is available in Lincoln, Nebraska and the surrounding area.
The sports main page includes information about college sports, high school sports, baseball, hockey, golf, basketball, football, auto racing, and any other information that comes across the sports wire that is news worthy.
The advertising that I have found on the page is a ad for a law firm, job listings and online education.
So this is the difference between the two newspapers. The Daily Echo only includes basically one sport (soccer) and one team, the Cherries. While the Lincoln Star Journal covers a lot of different sporting events. Could this be something different in the culture. For example, we Americans like to know a little about every sporting event that is going on and the English want to focus on their soccer clubs. I think that it could be.
One thing that I noticed about both sites is that they were advertising jobs that were available and how to get an education online. It must be something that was figured out through a study that showed a percentage of people who read a sports section online that these are the things they will look for and job searches and oneline college education must be the two.
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