Media Houses.

The Mail & Guardian

 The Mail & Guardian is a South African weekly newspaper, published by M&G Media in Johannesburg, South Africa, with a strong focus on politics, government, the environment, civil society and business.

In the Mail & Guardian online, through the link: http://mg.co.za/multimedia/2013-02-15-weekend-101-oscar-overshadows-zumas-sona-1 make use of multimedia (pictures and videos) which gives more meaning to the stories published on the site. The Videos and pictures posted are the top stories making headlines both nationally and internationally.

The Mail and Guardian is an independently run media house which are publishing both online and print. But more on online, their design is one that attracts hundreds to read.

They also make use of twitter through the link http://mg.co.za/page/mail-and-guardian-on-twitter to get to those viewers who are on twitter and get immediate comments from them. Facebook is also being used as another form of reaching out and telling stories through social media through the link http://www.mg.co.za/tag/facebook  .   

The template that they use for their home page that includes pictures and captions to make news more efficient to the viewers. The template also includes options like education, multimedia, business and arts and culture to let viewers choose what they want to view on the hyperlink http://www.mg.co.za .

News 24

News24 is South Africa's leading digital news brand reaching more than 1.3 million people monthly across multiple devices. From the Web to mobile phones to interactive TV, South Africans go to News24 to stay up to date on what is happening locally or internationally.  Consistent growth in coverage of general news, business, sport and other major interest areas over the past year has positioned News24 as the destination of choice for the majority of online South Africans.

Their home page is fair, but does not have enough stories as the page include a lot of adverts on the far right side. Link http://www.news24.com/    

They are an independent media house which makes use of multimedia such as twitter on https://twitter.com/News24  where they post news and get immediate response, facebook http://www.facebook.com/pages/Izindaba-News24/149719738423508 where they publish news through the isiZulu language and  through the page https://www.facebook.com/news24  publishing in English.

BBC

BBC is in international independent media house based in Britain. Their online homepage http://www.bbc.com/news/  has an amazing template that includes news and news only. They also very colourful background and options that include buttons to link one to any news around the world.

On most of the stories/articles posted there, they have videos to let viewers view the story that they are narrating.

They make use of available multimedia, twitter https://twitter.com/BBC  , facebook https://www.facebook.com/bbcworldnews   , youtube.  http://www.youtube.com/user/BBCWorldwide and etc.  The use of multimedia for this media house is effective as they post all news relevant to that particular country selected and that making international headline.