Analysis of current affairs website - NewStatesman


  • The NewStatesman website has a colour scheme of red, white, and black, the website seems pretty bland and plain, it seems very modern and aimed more so at an older audience. The font used is bold simple and easy to read.
  • The NewStatesman also has a liberal bias, most of their political stories are informative but the headlines are usually harsh on the conservatives. 
  • The main story is the first thing that you can see on the home page, but many other stories also hold the home page together. They are a very informative website and have less adds than the Big Issue, and their website is also less eye catching than others suggesting they care more about informing than publicity and attracting their audience. 
  • The modern and mature website look is a big contrast to the magazine front covers as they often have one main image which is either a cartoon or a photoshopped image, where as the website uses actual images and has a lot of information at first glance. 
  • NewStatesman is also available on social media and has 187.4K Followers on twitter and 148,384 followers on Facebook. 


 

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