Finding Newsnow Together

Introduction

A very popular and commonly used practice nowadays is to read your newspapers and access other mass media information by using the Internet. This practice has begun expanding a few years ago, with the “explosion” of the number of Internet users. Many of the papers specialized in news founded their own web sites and started having more and more users daily. One of these mass media tools is Newsnow.

Newsnow is a publication from Cape Town, South Africa which is specialized in news from all over the domains. The users can read on Newsnow about news, business, people, and lifestyle or even see videos about every category mentioned earlier. Newsnow features news not only from South Africa, but from all over the world, so even you can watch and read the information displayed on the Newsnow web site. But let me show you how to access the Newsnow website and what it features.

Step 1

Step 1: You will need a working personal computer with access to the Internet (it is best you have a high speed Internet because Newsnow contains videos and images of high quality and it would make your navigation easier and faster). The first thing you have to do is open an Internet browser of your choice (Internet Explorer, Opera, Mozilla or Google Chrome – be careful that some internet browsers do not feature Adobe ActiveX and Adobe Flash Player so you might need to install them as well)

Step 2

Step 2: After you have opened your internet browser, you will have to type in your address bar google.com and access it. Google is a search engine which will help you find Newsnow. After you have accessed google.com you will have to type “Newsnow” in the search bar under Google and hit the enter button from your keyboard.

Step 3

Step 3: The search engine will now return the most visited entries. Access the Newsnow web page (you can easily find it by looking at their motto: “Keeping you in the know”) by clicking on the title and waiting for the page to load. You should have the Newsnow web page displayed on your monitor.

Step 4

Step 4: Now you are on the home page of Newsnow. On the home page you can see listed the top stories, from all the categories. In the upper section of the web page you will see the categories, listed horizontally and using different colors. You will notice that all the stories have their titles highlighted with the same color as the category. Between the categories list and the top stories there is a navigable slider where top stories from each category are featured.

You can easily view what category each story belongs to from the line under the picture, which respects the above mentioned color code.

Step 5

Step 5: After you take a look through the home page and get yourself used to the concept, you can choose a category which interests you the most at the time given and go to that specific web page by simply clicking on the category in the upper colored list. If you ever find yourself in the need to contact someone from the newspaper, access the “Contact” button.

Tips

Newsnow, a Cape Town, South Africa publication, is one of the most popular and commonly used site used for latest news and mass media information around the world.

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