USA Today

https://lebronwire.usatoday.com/

 

  • What kinds of articles/ stories/ media  (and ads and videos for that matter) are on that site? 
  • What does that tell you about who they think their audience is? How do you draw that conclusion?
  • How long are the pieces usually? (pages, words, minutes)?
  • What is the tone, usually? (funny, serious, casual)
  • What kind of diction is usually used? (casual, formal, academic, etc.)
  • How do they usually use evidence/ support (such as data, quotations, interviews, etc)?
  • What can you tell us about their visual presentation?  Is it all black and white text? Video with lots of graphics?
  • How can you make your article a good fit for this publication?

The articles, stories and media on the site are based on LeBron, the news is strictly LeBron headlines for during the NBA season and more. This tells me that their main audience is LeBron fans or at least people who like to keep up with basketball and LeBron James. Each article is pretty long around 2–5 paragraphs you can read in maybe 5-10 minutes. The tone is pretty serious, they don’t hesitate to bash LeBron or criticize the Lakers play whatsoever. The dictation is formal and they present their evidence pretty well, they’ll have a picture with the score or a video to back up whatever argument they were trying to make underneath that said paragraph. The visual presentation is pictures all over the site with LeBron and the covers of these different articles as well as videos used as supporting evidence and photos. I can make my article fit with this publication because first, it’s LeBron related, and secondly, it’s about basketball news and it could be groundbreaking news if it comes to fruition as many people already believe LeBron is leaving soon and for the ones who don’t, these articles about his comments are only making it seem more obvious by the day.