The Champion assignment

If you were creating content for the web version of the Champion, what would it look like?

A:
-I would use a modern looking website due to the fact that the majority of people looking at the paper are college kids.
- There would be plenty of ways to connect with people and share article through social networking, let parents and those back home whats going on at school.
- Explicit appeals to student body- making them feel important by involving them because if there interest is kept the Website will flourish.
- Reliable minimally biased news, even with Christian title of the school everything should be reported.
- Sections of news divided for easy access (Times,CNN,Fox) have similar format to the successful news companies. Its what works.
- Beneficial advertisements (bonuses for college students)

Three News stories that would differ online:
1. Actor visits- This story would first need to change the title because people need to know who visits and most likely will not click on it. There also needs to be less detail in the story. For example there does not need to be a whole background on Kirk because this detail is not needed to inform people on the new movie. Todays generation will just skim over the majority of the article if it is not concise.

2. Wu emphasizes CSER choices- Overall this story is concise and does a good job of getting the point across but there needs to be clarification on Wu in the title and lead as it is a person. This may be a little confusing for online looking to know who wu is since they may not go to this school. Another thing to add on the online version of the paper would be a link to register for a CSER, since it is such an important requirement at liberty.

3. Then and Now- These picture oriented news sections work very well with web news because it is an easy way to see it clearly. Since web news is highly visually there needs to be more stories like this that are light and entertaining that can lead to other more serious stories. There should be links embedded in the buildings to view different events going on in the various building so students could easily see what is happening in campus life.