#journalismassignment

Recently, after the women's soccer World Cup played at home, the Canadian goalkeeper Erin McLeod crowned a great dream, to marry her girlfriend, Ella Masar. I found the article on an Italian online newspaper website "La Repubblica" which I was browsing. Actually some friends of mine told me about this story. I don't like soccer very much, so I am not that up-to-date. http://www.repubblica.it/sport/2015/07/13/foto/canada_le_calciatrici_si_sposano_e_mettono_a_tacere_gli_omofobi_con_una_preghiera-119011708/1/?ref=HRESS-17#1 I decided to start researching, and tracking the article, I was brought to a Huffington Post article, which was a bit more in-depth, descriptive paper, rather than a couple of sentences with many pictures. This article was of four days ago. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/ella-masar-erin-mcleod-marry_55a0126ce4b09672915615f5 I continued my research, and at the end I realized that maybe, the first article came from another one from "Independent", dating yesterday. The paper presented many Instagram pictures as well as captions, quotes and many informations related to the case. http://www.independent.ie/style/weddings/womens-soccer-stars-and-teammates-erin-mcleod-and-ella-masar-share-beautiful-wedding-photos-31372680.html I think that the articles had more or less the same information, only said in different words. Obviously the photos were the same, but I noticed that the articles got way much shorter at the end, summing up some captions and comments, using only necessary information to fully understand the story in a fast and efficient way.

The Huffington Post recently released an article listing 6 large companies who immediately stopped selling Confederate flags and other merchandise in response to the Charleston shooting and to the ongoing heated debate concerning the racist implications behind the Confederate flag. The article focused primarily on company response, while CNBC and other source articles discussed the shooter’s motives, racism in South Carolina, the removal of the Confederate flag from government institutions, police intervention, and protests. The Huffington post article was more objective in its writing style while its aggregated sources were more editorial.

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Recently, James Horner, the composer responsible for the scores of films like Titanic and Avatar, passed away in a plane crash. The director of those films, James Cameron, reflected on his experience with working with him, which was originally published on The Hollywood Reporter. Cameron described hearing Horner’s score on Battle Beyond the Stars, a film that both of them worked on, as “the best thing about the film.” Therefore, he wanted to work with Horner on Aliens, but things did not go as planned, since Horner spent less than two days on the score and Cameron had to be involved in editing the score because of that. However, Cameron and Horner worked with each other again on Titanic, initially trying to pretend that the falling out never happened. Unlike Aliens, Horner fully committed to composing the score for Titanic, and once Cameron heard it, he cried. Cameron continued by explaining the hard work Horner put in the score for Avatar, where he did “an awful lot of experimentation.” Cameron ends by saying that he was happy with their interaction when he saw him for the last time, where there was a live orchestra playing the score of Titanic in sync with the movie. When E! Online repackaged this story, they did not paint the entire picture. While they talked about Horner’s contribution for Titanic, they brushed over Avatar and made no mention of the falling out the two had after Aliens, making their relationship seem completely friendly the whole time they knew each other.

Washington Post: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2015/06/21/how-the-confederacy-lives-on-in-the-flags-of-seven-southern-states/

Most of the Huffington Post article focusses on explaining how the new technology works. The CNET article talks about why Amazon implemented this and its significance. 

Both these news sources share the same story. They both tell about the education of boys in Bangladesh who are trying to make a change in the rights of women. The original source came from the Daily Star and the aggregated source came from the Huffington post. The content is almost the same. Many of the lines from the article in the Huffington post are direct quotes from the Daily Star article. The only difference is that the Huffington post article is much more condensed. It is much shorter and focuses on the main message while the original source goes into more detail. The message is the same but the content they deliver is different. This is because of the difference in the readers of the article. The original source is meant for a more thorough reading. This is more often read for the purpose of research. The aggregated source is meant for a more general overview. This is directed at an audience who wants a general idea for their own knowledge and not so much for research. Both these sources are credible and they each serve a different purpose making them almost separate articles.