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Diversity of Journalisms. Proceedings of ECREA/CICOM Conference, Pamplona, 4-5 July 2011
Ranking
3 : Level of relative excellence for this funcionality.
Used as a value for summatory.
Quartils 1-4, being 4 the fourth part of analyzed websites with
highest values, and 1 the fourth part with lowest values. Used as a
value for summatory.
Results
The results of this first evaluation wave can be seen in the tables we present below,
dividid into general media and Spanish media –the universe of our research. Results
are not very different in all the online newspapers –those which come from a printed
version-, approximately 50 points, but are considerable lower in Spanish native online
media, curiously, and Spanish radio-television websites. LeMonde.fr is the best
qualified media we analyze (57 points), and LaVanguardia.com the best one in Spain
(55 points). Folha.com is the one with lowest punctuation (35 points)I n the world and
the website of a regional or autonomic television of Andalusia, Canal Sur, the lowest
one in Spain (31 points).
Section by section, in the general media we analyze BBC and LeMonde.fr are the ones
with best punctuation in information access the lowest ones. Nevertheless, Publico.pt
and Asahi.com present the poorest archive retrieval systems, and BBC and LeMonde.fr
the best ones. Navigation is consistent in all the media we analyze.
Público and Le Monde present the best positioning, but Clarin.com is better than
Público.pt in numerical parameters. Asahi.com and Folha.com present the weakest
results in this respect.
Accessibility is, in general, clearly low in all the media, since personalization
options are already poor.
Regarding to Spanish media, we have divided them into three categories: online
newspapers, native online media and audiovisual media (radio and television).
Newspapers, as we have already mentioned, have gained the best qualifications.
ElMundo.es, ElPaís.com and Lavanguardia.es are the best situated ones in information
access; their search engines and retrieval systemas are very good, with one difference:
El Mundo and El País are relatively young media, produced both of them from the
beginning (also the printed version, we mean) with digital means; La Vanguardia,
instead, was first published in 1881 and has done a considerbale effotr to offer all the
historial archive, in searchable pdf, on the web. Like other media (Folha is one of them,
Guardian the other one) with historial archives, they offer a double search system.
Navigation is consistent in all the Spanish newspapers, with an average value of 12.
Positioning is very homogeneous as well. Accessibility, on the other hand, is extremely
poor, and the number of errors is consdierable, especially in La Voz de Galicia and La
Vanguardia. This last medium, must be mentioned, has changed in 2011 their design
and this afirmation needs to be modulated with further application of our tool.
Curiously, qualifications of native media in Spain are lower than those of the previously
studied newspapers, in both cases (Vilaweb.cat, the oldest one, and
LaInformación.com, born in 2009) they are below 50 points –before the avegrage
puntuation of internationl media as well. They bare consistent, as all the rest of the
media are, in navigation, but very wak in archive –a question that, regarding to digital
preservation of those native media, is a very important one. Positioning and social web
use is correct (LaInformación.om, created by the former director of Prisacom, the firm
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