Huffington Post.

Huffington Post.

Huffington Post’s website is very blah. Their homepage is just too plain for me and its not as intriguing as other sites. I think they could use a better design for the site because it really doe not attract me. They have good stories but the way they present the site is just, I don’t know how to put it in words other than “unimportant”.

 If the site adds maybe a little bit more color. Personally it looks more like a blog than anything but I will give them this, the pictures they have online look really good especially the ones with the tornado, even though its blurry, the image just looks scary which goes with the headline which is “Twisters strike at least 14 dead.”

 Since the story is hard news and very tragic, the headline is in all caps, bold and red to make it stand out.  Other stories that Huffington Post has to display, they have smaller photographs but they are all the size in comparison to the main story regarding the Tornado.

 Also, the homepage is pretty long compared to other journalistic website’s homepage. I think they should cut it down so readers don’t have to keep scrolling.

Univision.

Uni.

Univision is one of the most popular journalistic networks in the Latino Hispanic community. The website features slideshows of news stories which include entertainment, hard news, international news and much more. They show links to the latest hard news that’s going on around the world. 

I feel like Univision is more detailed and more informed of what really is going on around the world in comparison to other English American news networks like Fox news, ABC News, Eye witness News, NBC and so forth.

 I feel like I get more out of Univision’s reports because they physically travel to the designated spot to where the hard news story is located like for example the story about “Chapo” Guzman and how he got caught in Mexico after over a decade of being in the hunt. Right now one of the biggest stories is the canonization of Pope John Paul II and Pope John XXIII in the Roman Catholic Church.

 Univision has really good detailed stories along with videos of the report. I think it is really important to have complete stories with full on details and descriptions with videos available. The site includes links to different stories and other links such as contact us, careers and so forth.

VOGUE

Emma Stone.

The issue I ended up looking at was Vogues and it was the April issue featuring Emma Stone. I love how the spread is designed. Its very sheik, very clean and classy and it fits the magazine’s style. The magazine is more of a fashion style magazine and entertainment.  The layout features a red color along with white space for the clarity to read the article and or feature story. 

I love the pictures! They are very tasteful and the pictures look very professional obviously because they are from a photo shoot. The feature story is Emma Watson and shows her modeling different outfits and I am loving the dresses she is wearing and the way she poses is not your typical model pose per say. 

My favorite picture is where she is at a diner and she is sitting on top of the bar area with a really fancy dress. The colors make it pop and she looks just absolutely stunning. She looks as if she if something caught her attention and she is just trying to figure out what is going on. The story line gives a well description of her. I just love her personality and how easygoing she sounds and seems to be.

T I M E .

Time magazine has made quite a good amount of magazines throughout time with good details and design. They are known for having black and white images and their red font for their cover. Their recent spread shows off Beyoncé posing for their front cover and the image is in black and white. That issue names the 100 most influential people in the world. 

What amazes me is that Beyoncé is in the list among 41 other women who are obviously influential to the world, but that she is in the cover that corresponds to that article which is pretty cool in my opinion. Does that make sense?  

The spread includes other stories and advertisements. It is pretty clean for the most part but the most important thing is that it keeps you intrigued and it keeps you reading. The spread is good for the most part but it’s like any other magazine well a magazine that is well known. 

I like most of all, their images or photographs that they put in their spread it looks very detailed and they capture the moment of where and what the image is. I love their portrait photos their just so classy and tasteful. 

TIME Magazine

I M A G E.

I went on to Vanity Fair’s magazine website and another site to compare how their photography or images look on their site.  So I’m looking at Vanity Fair’s August 2013 issue and I am definitely liking the cover photo which is Kerry Washington who plays Olivia Pope on Scandal (side note- such a good show) the colors give a good contrast which makes the red on her lips and the red on the font POP. I love her photo-shoot for that issue, her dress though is too matchy matchy with the stairs she is leaning on but the green form the grass makes it pop so it's not too much.

The other site I am looking at is newslocker.com I find the images quite interesting because they are not images where someone is posing for a photo-shoot, its more like live and in action or just plain caught off guard which makes it funny. There’s a lot that’s going on but that’s because its more of a blog than anything and has images from different stories that are being featured. One of them is the Donald Sterling racist issue, so all you see is just a bunch of pictures of him and people who probably hate him right now. 

NEWSLOCKER.COM