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

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.

Have a look at these American surveys on how the Internet is affecting traditional journalism and how it'schanging the way viewers and readers get news.

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:

http://cartodb.github.io/odyssey.js/

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.

http://storymap.knightlab.com/

Some free digital tools to create your digital magazine;

https://www.flipsnack.com/

https://www.joomag.com/

https://www.scoop.it/

https://www.lucidpress.com/

https://flippingbook.com/

https://madmagz.com/

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: