Review of Observer feature.

Hanging my head in shame for the lazy souls of the Observer online.

Unfortunately for me, this article is exactly what’s wrong with online journalism, and in my opinion showed the lack of true online journalism.

The story itself was a brilliantly written for the Observer, it looked at the widely popular Grazia magazine and how the BBC has decided to make a fly on the wall documentary about the magazine. The style was up beat, making little jibes at its lack of professionalism and schoolgirl attitudes, but overall praised its success in finding the gap in the market.

This did nothing to impart faith in the growth of online journalism; this was a simple edit job from print to online.

For one it was far too long and completely un-readable for a long space of time, the text was too small and there wasn't sufficient spacing between the texts that made it feel very cramped.
There were also no visuals to rest the eye from text; it was block text from start to finish, which made it rather boring to read. Some pictures of the interviewees would have enhanced the story.

It also made no use of a roll over or hyper linking to any sites, this made it a rather dull story which could easily have been 'jazzed up' with links to other sites, possibly the BBC site and Grazia itself; a multi media element could have been used by showing a clip of the new documentary (if available).

I found this a very disappointing example of an online feature, there was no use of the many facets of the Internet, and had not been changed to fit the short snappy style of good Internet journalism.