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Comparing Abc And Brisbane Times

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This essay will be exploring and analyzing two different news websites, Abc and Brisbane times. It will explore on how the two websites cover their stories and how stories are trending between the two sites.

The first site I will analyze is located at Abcnetau. (2016, 2 June 2016). Flash-flooding, powerful wind gusts to hit Queensland. [Weblog]. Retrieved 13 June 2016, from http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-06-03/wild-weather-flash-flooding-wind-gusts-to-hit-queensland/7473248

This story was published on the 2nd of June 2016 at 1:42 pm, it was the top story for that day and talks. The story was based on the dangerous weather condition that was going to affect South-East Queensland later that weekend.

The Abc website can be roughly …show more content…

Queensland news and entertaining blogs by local personalities are supported by national and international coverage using the resources of the wider Fairfax network” http://www.adcentre.com.au/brands/brisbane-times/

Brisbane times the story I will note here is located at Nathanael cooper. (2016, 2 June 2016). Brisbane Traffic: Pedestrian hit by truck in Fortitude Valley. [Weblog]. Retrieved 13 June 2016, from http://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/queensland/brisbane-traffic-pedestrian-hit-by-truck-in-fortitude-valley-20160602-gpaaz4.html

In-text citation: (Nathanael cooper, 2016)

This website (Brisbane times) focuses more on the local side of the news. The popularity of this website is much lower than the ABC so it has lots of graphics to help support the website content.

Most part of the website contains a lot of commercial /sponsored listings and this hints that the website (Brisbane times.com) obliges the companies they work with or are sponsoring them to place commercial listings/links on far corners of the website.

The top part of the website includes links and navigation for the

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