In today’s newsrooms workflow innovation and content planning are becoming pretty important for the delivery of news across multiple platforms. But it is not easy for organisations with a print orientation to innovate and move away from a print-dominant workflow. Designer Mario Garcia noted in a recent blog post, “Don’t attach more significance to one platform…
The creation of platforms, simple or complex, for user generated content and story-related interaction, are becomoing important to newsrooms. And is the day far off when they will be an integral part of media-related content management systems? Guardian’s new platform Witness makes it posible for readers to submit photos, video and text directly to it.…
CNN’s home page sports a new look, with changes in the way the top story is displayed and a different look in the showcasing of sections. There is a sharper focus on the top story now, with fewer distracting elements – and the page looks lighter now, with a lighter grey replacing the predominant black…
Yes, it’s paywall time. As Felix Salmon in an article in Columbia Journalism Review, “It’s paywall season right now: The Washington Post, the San Francisco Chronicle, theTelegraph, the Sun—all have recently announced plans to erect paywalls in an attempt to extract subscription revenues from their most loyal online readers.” Some pundits who had been emphatically…
This page, about the big-traffic moments on the BBC website over the last 15 years, provides us with us with fascinating glimpses into the evolution of design thinking and the conceptualization of news websites. This page offers screenshot displays of the popular stories and also, in the process, an idea of the design changes too.…
This is an interesting new resource. Whether or not you are specifically interested in coding – and these days it is being increasingly seen as an a very useful skill for journalists – it throws light on the kind of work that is being done in media organisations. This Knight-Mozilla OpenNews project is called Source.…
The move of the New York Times too going the web app way indicates that some mainstream news sites are thinking of options outside the Apple app ‘ecosystem’. Financial Times has already gone this way and made a great success of it. Makes sense, considering that a large number of readers get thier news using…
Marrying headlines with SEO techniques is the way to go says this post from Frédéric Filloux in the Guardian, citing an instance from HuffPo. “HuffPo’s editors took no chance: the headline they picked is algorithm-designed to yield the best results in Google. The aggregator invested a lot in SEO tools: I was told that every…
Having a open and transparent corrections policy is going to be more important than before with the advent of third-party tools that keep a close track of story changes on a site. Take a look at the recently-released NewsDiffs to get an idea of what I’m talking about NewsDiffs enables users to keep track of…
In the media context, it’s generally thought that both Web and native apps both have their respective roles to play in bringing content to readers, but if the experience of Financial Times is anything to go by the dice seems to be loaded in favour of Web apps. A recent post in the Guardian’s Apps…
It seems that really big news portals too are taking up responsive design – the BBC has just announced how it is going to incorporate it into its mobile sites. I had in a previous post said why news sites should consider responsive design as having solutions to the design problems caused by the diversity…
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