Cable News Network
CNN is a news outlet. Which does visual and print journalism. And its relevance to the society is their ability to report news as it happens. Which can be viewed on a desktop computer or a mobile device. Giving everyone a chance to have a taste of breaking news irrespective of what device used.
The first thing you see on www.cnn.com is the breaking news, which is on the top left...and then their bold logo.
Then we have; News, Regions, Videos, TV, Features, Opinions, More, International Edition (where you can select the edition you want) and Search CNN...all on the same line.
And when we move the mouse on each tabs, for instance, the opinions, under it we have ireport (which we can have directly as ireport.cnn.com) where you have CNN iReport very bold and sign up | log in. Then under it you have Main, Explore, Assignments, Profile and Upload. But before you upload, you have to be a member, either you log in or you sign up by clicking on it.
And back to the home page, we can also see; World, Sport, Technology, Entertainment, Style, Travel, Money. By which if you click on any, it takes you to another page.
Then you see Top stories/Trending stories on the same home page; where we have stories making headlines. And under it, we see News + buzz; showing more than three headlines.
And the in middle of the page, shows the main news, its main cos it is boldly seen and cant be mistaken. Under that news, you have another news.
Then we see the first Advert on the right corner.
Before you see another advert which is after series of news stories and at the end of the page, you have visuals...where you could stream the stories.
Also, when you click on the a stories, at the end of the story, you could Comment on the story, also you must sign in first. And just beside it, you have tools (Facebook, Twitter, Email, Reddit, Pinterest, Tumblr, StumbleUpon, LinkedIn) you can use to share the news. Also, when clicked on a story, on the left part, is an arrow, that when clicked, can take you to the previous story.
And at the bottom of the page, we have past stories "In Case You Missed It", which gives you stories they think or stories you missed.
However, they have a massive social media coverage. 9,998,717 facebook fans and 4.38m Twitter followers and 4,219,522 followers 38,780,485 views google+.
With this coverage, they stand to be the best when it comes to breaking news anywhere in the world.
There is also, CNN arab CNN Mexico CNN Spanish and impact your world.
But on the other hand, when it is open on a mobile device (phone) we have www.cnnmobile.com.
With the same journalism ethics but it doesn't have the same view as the desktop view. Also the intrigue thing about the mobile site is that, it doesn't have a section or place for Advert.
The homepage, having the bold Red and White CNN logo on the top left of the page and then a quick link to Weather report/news on the top right of the page. When clicked it shows a search page where you can put in the country you want and get the weather report of that location.
Also on the homepage are series of beats, but the first directly under the logo is "Latest News", this gives the news as it happens, e.g Trafficking survivor 'raped 43,200 times'.
And then, there is the sectionalize beat starting with the World news, giving news report around the world.
And just underneath, there is the Go to US version, which when clicked takes you to another page or another CNN page that deals strictly with News in the United states, especially the current presidential poll.
And then you can still click on the international version which takes us back to the previous page.
There we still have beats on Business, there is another part of streaming or watching news videos, but mostly top videos, then Weather again, Sport, Tech and Entertainment.
Just beneath all this, is a quick highlight of each beats with numbers beside it.
And at the bottom of the page, there is the iReport. Where they take you step by step on how to send videos and pictures of news stories to them. Which can also be done by sending a mail to ireport@cnn.com or MMS.
And at the end of the page we have; 2015 Cable News Network. Turner Broadcasting System, Inc. All right reserved. Under it we have Terms of Use|Privacy policy|AdChoices|Advertise with us|About us|Contact us|Work for us|Help|Transcripts|License Footage|CNN Newsource.
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