5. Place the news stream at a top position and 6. Use timestamps to indicate latest news.

As noted in the first point, to stay updated was the major reason for visiting the online newspapers. Latest news was recognizable by the audience from timestamps, labels and top position. In 2003, the latest news has clearly been given even more focus, with news streams at top positions at all papers.

Emphasizing both the publisher and audience view, that news updates are both important reasons for providing an online edition, and for reading it, there should be a news stream on the site. The news stream should be placed in top, as it is at all papers in 2003. To emphasize that updates are made, timestamps should be used for the news stream since many audience members relied on the existence of timestamps to identify recent news. In 2001, there was a discussion at the newspapers about timestamps also for other news items, and in 2003, some of the papers in this study have started to timestamp headlines as well, which is also discussed in the following point.