Possibly the most newsworthy world event going on right now is the G-20 Summit being held in London. Most major newspapers are covering everything from the $1.1 trillion pledged to help IMF, World Bank and the protest going on in the streets to Michelle Obama's mishap of putting her arm around the Queen of England during a photo op.
Each of these stories is very important and very well produced for an online publication. The IMF story uses links and a list to help readers navigate around the website to other stories about the conference. I think the USA Today did a very interesting thing by posting related stories at the very bottom of the page before the reader had to scroll down to continue the story. They are able to do this because they use the inverted pyramid style. The most important information is in the first three graphs of the story. If the reader was satisified they would be able to click on links to find other stories about the summit, if they wanted to continue reading they would just scroll down to find the rest of the story.
The story about the protesting done by msnbc.com had great pictures and a video to go along with the story. This gives the story more than one medium to use. The video does a great job of giving the option of not having to read the story if the person would rather listen to the story than have to spend time reading it.
The last story I found on USA Today was more of a feature story than a hard news story. It was a good way to show there is a lighter side to a meeting that is causing such a global controversy. The story was picked up by American newspapers after it ran in England as a tabloid story. Most of the people shrugged off the breach in protocol.
All the articles used more than one medium to tell the story which is arguably the most important part of online publication design.
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