Introduction to Digital Media Tutorial Work

1. Poetry blog vs Journalism blog
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2. Poetry Breakfast
• Blog for all creations of poetry
• Poems and their creators are introduced
• Creative content

3. Lens of the New York Times
• Blogs about news stories (photojournalism)
• More visuals are shown for better proof and
understanding
• Real time happenings and info

4. Similarities of both blogs
1) There are social media platforms involved:
Social media has been playing a huge role in
people's lives, the same applies to blogs. Both blogs
have social media accounts for more traffic and
further thoughts.

5. 2) Varying audience:
No matter for news stories or poems, there will
not be a fixed number of readers for both blogs. Both
blogs will have to take note of their publishing
contents to earn more traffic and interest to their
sites.

6. 3) Informative messages:
The creative messages from the poems, the
news updates that can better the minds for recent
happenings, all of these is a spark that brightens up
one's mind to a world of thoughts.

7. Differences between both blogs
1) Freedom of voice:
People have their own thoughts when it comes
to giving own opinions. This freedom is limited for
journalism blogs due to publicity and reputation
issues, however it is not limited for poetry blogs to
express themselves using the beauty of words.

8. 2) Content style:
The content for poetry blogs are always on a
creative and relaxing basis for the readers, whilst the
contents for journalism blogs are more formal and
serious and related to social happenings, which can
sometimes bring a heavy impact to people.

9. 3) Ways of finding sources:
Poems' inspirations came from feelings, thoughts
and experiences, and that is why poems can be
created spontaneously. However, news stories need
proven facts and evidence along with the answers in
certain interviews to solidify the whole story.