To be honest I was a little late to this lecture as my European Political Issues lecturer went way over the time limit. I was also confused as to why there was a woman talking as I did not know there was going to be a guest speaker. This speaker was, Skye Doherty. I did make it for the end of the slide on the inverted pyramid. I love that little guy, I remember back in the day in English at High School he was my best friend. I used it for so many different assessments and also in Legal Studies. I was very surprised to hear from people around me that this is the first time they have ever encountered the Inverted Pyramid.
The one thing I drew from this lecture is the 'Poynter Eyetrack' slide. Being a very visual person especially when it comes to pictures rather than text I found it quite surprising that pictures are not the entry point to the homepage. I tested this on myself and a few others in my family and I came to the conclusion that without viewing the text first, the pictures on the page become more or less of a 'nothing' to you. Either that or the pictures loaded after the text popped up first inevitably making it the first thing you are drawn to.
The keywords as text also struck a chord within. I had never processed the fact that keywords and metadata would play a huge part in online newspapers. Keywords for any type of journalism on the internet would be an extremely important factor in order to gain audiences and traffic. Revelation!
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