The coverage of the Mumbai terrorist attack threw up some interesting coverage trends and practices as far as the Indian media are concerned. Here are some of them: Layout: Not all Indian media sites changed their layout to reflect the changed news priorities: some continued to stick to their old templates. There were many stories…
The Guardian’s video page Close on the heels of video journalism advocate Michael Rosenblum’s warning that news websites that do not embrace video whole-heartedly will go out of business – I had written about his dire warning in an earlier post – comes information that UK newspaper sites see video as a way of increasing…
Typepad came out with what it called ‘The TypePad Journalist Bailout Program’ a few days ago and it suddenly has led to an intense discussion about the offer itself and about why it was being made in the first place. And the debate may not be over yet! In case you missed out on the…
New news reader applications based on Adobe AIR are in the offing. This report from CNET stated that New York Times Vice President of R&D Michael Zimbalist displayed at the Adobe Max conference some days ago, a new news reader application meant for the International Herald Tribune (IHT). But "it’s pretty clear" that a reader…
Where does Microsoft stand with regard to the Automated Content Access Protocol (ACAP), which is being pushed by publishers and newpapers to enable them to have greater control over the manner in which search engines access their content? A story in the International Herald Tribune a few days ago said that Microsoft is extending its…
One of the points I found interesting about the recent Slate redesign (of sorts) relates to navigation. When the site was redone about two years ago, the section menu had been positioned in an unusual manner. That was the first time I had come across a site that offered a roll over menu to stories…
Somewhere down the line, a news website front page usually ends up having long lists. A lot of the elements on the page take the shape of lists, prolific among them being story headlines connected with different sections of the site. And the more the news categories the longer the list. Many news site front…
Do news sites have something to learn from Google’s ten principles that guide user experience design, which have been described in detail on its site. Let’s juxtapose them in the context of online news (not necessarily in the order in which Google has listed them) and see how it works out. (Yes, I know that…
“News websites which do not embrace video whole-heartedly will go out of business, according to video journalism pioneer Michael Rosenblum.” So reported the Press Gazette, the other day. Mr Rosenblum thant went on explain that media companies should understand the nature of the business they are in. “You are not in the newspaper business…When new…
Smashing Magazine had a sort of a random analysis of ‘trends’ in ‘newspaper’ website design earlier this week. (Random because not all top sites do figure in it, by my reckoning). The analysis from a general web design perspective offers no surprises – the major points made are that websites use dark text on a…
We know of the strong association between pink newsprint and financial newspapers; but is this the first time that a financial news website has decided to go pink after having stuck to the default white page background-colour for ages? A report in The Guardian described how the website of the UK-based Financial Times chosen “the…
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