The Formula 1car race will open on 24 of October the new Korean Grand Prix, a 3.5 mile (5.6 kilometer) circuit. The Korean Grand Prix will be the 17th of 19 races this session (2010), which Abu Dhabi will be the grand prix for 2010 F1 session. The opening of new circuit is an important event to make online stories because Formula 1 fans are not only in a specific country but in the whole world.
News.bbc.co.uk is a British website that discusses all important issues with their readers in UK and internationally. An article titled “Korean F1 Grand Prix given go-ahead after inspection” was the main topic for this week, which summaries information about the Korean Formula 1 Grand prix opening day which helps the reader to be more familiar with the topic. To create a strong connection between the reader and the story, the author of the article posted a video in the top of the story to visualize the new Korean circuit for Formula 1 fans before the opening race in 24th of November 2010. As a new circuit , fans and readers totally ignore its structure, so by publishing this video they will get some overview about the new circuit by visualizing it positive and negative points. Videos will create kind of curiosity in people’s mind that’s help reader to open the story page and begin reading. Also in this online news, bbc.com publishes two other tools, a picture and a sentence from a debate about this circuit. On the first hand, the photo used in this article is so small that you can’t realize what is going on from the first look. On the other hand, posting a debate discussion will be a great tool to share opinions about this new Formula 1 circuit.
International edition of cnn.com also published an article titled “Korean GP gets green light from FIA”
about this hilarious event for Korea. CNN differently from the first website chooses to post a picture about the event to support the article. This picture summaries the most important information about the race (for example: name of the grand prix, date, and logo).
The Korean website, English.chosun.com didn’t give the news of the opening event his part of importance. As an Korean website, it’s must be the most important article “Korea Grand Prix Circuit Gets Green Light ” ever published because it is the Korean opening grand prix that many countries hope to have this event in their hometown one day. But the author of this story didn’t use any kind of tools (video, photos, debate discussion …) which decrease the important of this news in the eye of the reader.
To conclude, BBC used the greatest tool for this story in a perfect place and timing. As a new circuit the reader need to have some visual stuff to have an opinion about this story. In this kind of sorties, a photo in not a good idea, because it doesn’t gives an overview about the Korean new circuit. And finally, as a Korean website “ Chosun “ must be more involve in this news more than other international websites.
reference:
Unknown (2010), “Korea Grand Prix Circuit Gets Green Light”, available:
http://english.chosun.com/site/data/html_dir/2010/10/13/2010101300757.html
Spurgeon B (2010), “The South Korean Grand Prix Is On”, available:
http://formulaone.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/10/12/the-south-korean-grand-prix-is-on/
CNN (2010), “Korean GP gets green light from FIA”, available:
http://edition.cnn.com/2010/SPORT/motorsport/10/12/motorsport.f1.korea.gp/
Unknown (2010), “Korean F1 Grand Prix given go-ahead after inspection”, available:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/motorsport/formula_one/9081589.stm
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