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(video/photo/sound/blog) of the second level that comes from the first node, equally
superposed as a list. When further levels are offered, usually they are composed by an
accumulation of related news and multimedia, which explains the enormous presence
of hyperlinks in media like New York Times and, sometimes, BBC News (“Trapped
Chilean miners…” and news on Chilean miners during October, 2010 are a good
example).
Compared with the first times of online journalism, use of hypertext and hyperlinks is
far more rational, but still not all the supposedly complex structures (just because long
texts appear plenty of links) are in fact properly constructed ones, but acculumative –
and not always fully convincing coherent- structures. However, the use of hypertext is
highly interest specially when announced events occurred (i.e., sport matches), which
allow a previous planification of properly confectioned nodes correctly linked, but
generally speaking strategies are two: use of special reports (timelines, videos,
slideshows, infographics) previously done and continuously linked to those news items
related to thse subject; and use of related news, with no correspondence between
them (relation is 1:1, with no return from the linked news to the linking node), which
composed in fact lineal enriched structures with apparently branched aspect.
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