Breaking News for Breaking News!
April 7, 2008 at 11:09 am | In Interactive, Multimedia, Online Journalism | Leave a CommentTags: BreakingNews.ie, CNN, Irish News, RTE News
The Irish website www.breakingnews.ie, which is owned by Cork-based Thomas Crosbie Media, is getting a facelift. When you log onto the homepage the first thing you see is a message telling you “we will be launching our re-design of BreakingNews.ie within the next few days & hope you’ll like the changes!” So do I. According to the website, there will be facilities for pictures, videos and comments with an emphesis on (what they call) ‘rich media’; this means video & audio clips. This is good news for us all….yet another alternative to the all dominating (& not so frequently up-dated) RTE News (www.rte.ie/news) & may-be even a half-decent contender against international websites like CNN (http://edition.cnn.com) etc. Only time…a very short time…will tell.
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