This is our intermezzo in our blog. It's one of our tasks to give critics or reviews for a website. Our group has decided to review one of the famous media amongst young adults, especially college students, called Tirto.id. Tirto is an Indonesian news website created by Atmaji Sapto Anggoro in 3 August 2016 with the aim to cover the latest news without bias.
This post is in collaboration with:
footballigion.blogspot.com (Andhika A.S.)
sossure.wordpress.com (Rifqi A.)
whatever.school.blog (Jodhy F.)
1. Navigation (Jodhy F.)
I thought the navigation of tirto.id is already good. There are 4 menus you can visit in the head bar Jelajah, Indepth, Mild Report, and Current Issue. You can search specific news if you click the search icon and you can see their news spotlight in the right corner of the head bar. You can even see breaking news below the header. If you scroll down, you will see the content of said menu plus more content like Infographic, Hard News, Esai Foto and Video.
You can also click Jelajah for the content that did not include on the front page. After all, I think it is already good. I personally like how they decided to use an unusual approach with their "other" topic and not tuck them in a submenu or in obscure side bar but they put it in Jelajah menu with a photo depicting their respective topic.
2. Page Layout (Jodhy F.)
Tirto.id layout is simple, except for the header, it occupies the whole screen. The content usually only occupies the center of the screen with a simple white background making it looks neat. They also only have 6 articles in one column to make it balance. The contrast between the white background and the black font is pretty standard. In general, the format didn't change between the article and the front page making an illusion that you didn't need to load to go to another article. However, I think while white background looks neat, it is just a white background. White background is pretty standard, they can mix up the background with something else to make the contrast more clearly. However, I can see why they only use white background in order to minimize the loading screen so you can navigate the site faster.
3. Consistency (Andhika A.S.)
The consistency of tirto.id is quite excellent. The flow of the content is very sequential and settled perfectly, which makes the article is not boring to read for the readers. The writers make each paragraph compact and direct, so it is not long-winded (because most of the contents are news article). The contents also have headings and small headings that make the page looks more interesting to read. But I personally think it would be better if the writers could make the quotation with a different font type and size, so it would make the page better.
4. Tone and Voice (Rifqi A.)
We consider that tirto.id has mixed up with blue and white color as well as their philosophy of water, a pure water. Tirto.id also strengthen the news with accurate data, accurate information, even in various of illustration and positivity. Its voice also imagines how how well our intellectual can persuade to read the site. Some news from tirto.id has infographic that can added knowledge to the readers within the problem itself. To summarize, tirto.id has a strong voice for any digital media, their traffic, it will be better journalism for ahead along hopefully. Now, they co-partnership with Narasi.tv (Najwa Shihab TV) made tirto.id has their medium or focus reader target, young adults who can dig deeper the research itself.
5. Writing Quality (Rifqi A.)
As we know, if you are not interested with journalism or "news" especially college student, they do not know about this site. We decided to follow tirto.id because one of their journalism qualities. It looks like a standard linguistic, but it is not. They do not even know that its infographic has made us think further like a stream. They blurred in between pro and contra, the title also agitative and provocative to be clickbait in good way. We can conclude tirto.id only followed by a person who has higher education standard. Before tirto.id publish the news, they research the data first. How the data can be factual, connected with history timeline. We can say that the river has its main resources, big resources, before they stream it into small river.
6. Site Organization (Andhika A.S.)
The site organization of tirto.id is very well-organized. We can easily choose the category of article that we want to read, by clicking the banners on the center of the page. The banners show the headlines and pictures, and the contents are very structured, so the readers can easily find specific contents to read even they do not use the search engine of the article. Not forget to mention, the website has multiple widgets to help the readers navigate the page.
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