New Media Workshop

Find approximately 6 newsfeeds (from news sites, sections of news sites, and blogs) that relate in some way in the topic you’re considering for your final project. and add them to your aggregator. Write a blog post introducing those six feeds, explain why you are interested in following them, and discuss how they relate to your project idea as a source of information and research.

The 6 newsfeeds are obtained from NYT, IHT, London Times, The Guardian, the HK Standard and Greenpeace (China).

Asia/Pacific news from NYT and IHT are quite similar to a certain extend obviously. While the two focusing more on American news, the London Times reports more on European news. These are 3 newspaper organisations which provide much information to their readers. While for the Guardian, the newsfeeds they provide are fousing on British news, probably because the news are not categorised and therefore specific news on a certain area is not available. And the HK Standard is quite similar in that sense.

For the Greenpeace (China) one, there are explicit differences. Press releases, rather than news reports and analysis are available there. Therefore it comes in a less frequent terms, and it is more likely for us to find the needed information from this kind of organisations.

My project is going to talk about how global warming affect the recent climate of HK, say for the past ten years. To finish this, I will need information from international newspapers. Other than that, probably local newspaper and press releases from NGO working on a local scale are also required, this is why I picked the above newsfeeds.

They four global or foreign newspapers, are authoritative for international news reporting. The Guardian is important here as it is the different with the others for the fact that profit-maximisation is not it’s main goal. (though others may not be upholding this also, the Guardian is run by a foundation, which gives them more freedom and leeway in news reporting)

Together with, the Standrad is picked because the only other available local English newspaper, the SCMP is not offering newfeeds to its readers.

Among the various conservative groups, the Greenpeace is picked because it is one of the most authoritative organisation in the area, and it is convenience to readers in many aspects, for example the site is a bilingual one.

All these newsfeed, and also official data from the Hong Kong Observatory would serve as the core information needed to accomplish the project.