In our Introduction to Journalism lecture I was assigned to take a look at a particular media website (mine was Buzzfeed) and share a preview of it on my personal blog.
The name of Buzzfeed means “getting feed instantly” . The site contains stories with long, catchy headlines that are likely to appear on top of search engines. What is more, these written pieces have “to sell and not to tell”.
Viewers are encouraged to share the stories on social platforms, such as Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, etc.
Buzzfeed is mostly for entertainment and celebrity gossip, but it has a piece of seriousness too (although you cannot notice that at first sight). Advertisements are placed on the sidebar and parallel with “news”.
Its style is plain, not eye-irritating with sparkling colours, popping ads and subscriptions. The menu line is symmetrically divided – on the left we see the name of the site and five menus and on the right- the search engine alongside with five creative fast-click buttons that lead us to new content.
This site could appeal to the younger audience- from teenagers to young adults. It has sections with recipes, politics, parenting issues and even LGBT. To put it in a nutshell, it has a bite for everyone’s taste.
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