Ina Chandler

The Indymedia site focuses mainly on important events in different countries. They focus on some hard news but mostly feature stories. The Kuro5hin site focuses mainly on common people blogging about their experiences or things they think are interesting. There are also articles of opinions about events happening around the world such as Obama in China.

For the editorial policies the Indymedia site is an independent media center where journalist post the lastest information around the world. Journalists also provide photos, audio, and video footage through the website. For the Kuro5hin website anyone can post something, they just have to create an account. They are able to post anything that's interesting to them and their post will either get posted or dumped. If the post gets dumped it will not be on the website, but if the post gets posted and is on the first page it is one of the best posts. So the website determines if your story gets posted or not.

The Indymedia site focuses on events happening around the world, and journalists post pictures, videos, and stories. While on the Kur5hin site normal people post things that are interesting to them. So the news evaluation and editorial policies for the Indymedia site are more professional and formal than the Kur5hin site where anyone can post something.

I like the Kuro5hin site more because there are more interesting topics than the Indymedia site, but the Indymedia sites writing is much better.