“Our Audience is Our Only Agenda”

After quite a few mentions of The Global Mail during JOUR1111 lectures and tutorials, I thought that I should take a look at this website. I must admit, this online news and features ‘newspaper’ is quickly becoming my most turned to online news site.

I often find myself bored and disengaged with television news as the same stories are repeated on Channel’s 7, 9 and 10. My only refuge is ABC and again I often find that stories are repeated and I have little say over what news I receive. The Global Mail is different in this way. Unlike most online (and offline) news organisations, the stories published do not swim in the 24/7 news cycle. This offers me news that is considered, investigative and informative on people, places, events and issues from all corners of the globe and facets of life.

What is even more impressive is that The Global Mail does not limit itself to one form of journalism but examines topics through words, video, audio, photo journalism and info-graphics. This is great for me as I am interested in learning about different types of media. Another plus for this site is that it does not follow the typical online newspaper outline. It has made clever use of computer graphics, is clean and uncluttered, it's free from advertising and easy to navigate. 

This semester, I am also undertaking a foreign journalism course which has particularly focused on foreign correspondents and their role within news media. The Global Mail has staff correspondents based in Europe, Asia, the Middle East, the US and Latin America along with a diverse group of journalists in Australia.

Best of all, The Global Mail has not gone behind the paywall!!! And for my sake and the safety of my purse, I hope it doesn't. However, if they were to make this horrible decision, The Global Mail would be one online news site that I would consider paying for.