Foods News Journal Linking Philosophy

Food News Journal (FNJ) prides themselves with delivering daily food-related articles in the form of links from around the Web. So, naturally, their website contains a plethora of relevant links to a variety of news organizations, food magazines, and foodie beat blogs.

The links are divided into five sections — Food News (particular to each day), Food for Thought, Best of the Blogs, Wine and Spirits, and The Business of Food. Each individual link opens up a new page.

FNJ in and of itself is akin to a beat shell. Unlike a traditional news organization website which covers a broad range of topics, such as, technology, health, and entertainment, FNJ solely focuses on food news. Everything that is seen on their website is related to food, from their advertisements to calendar of events.

All of their links seemed to work just fine for me today. Considering how “link heavy” their website is, I can only imagine how tedious it must be to double-check each link before uploading to ensure it works properly for the public.

FNJ tends to word their links in newsy style, that is, short and to-the-point, in an effort lure and intrigue the reader. I did notice inconsistencies, however, in terms of how the words appear on each particular link — some of them are uppercase while others are lowercase (see below).

(Image courtesy of Food News Journal)

*Disregard the grayed out ones. Those are the stories I read. 🙂

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