The new-look CNN site presents readers with a better idea of the range of content available on the site upfront, and organises it (especially video) better around individual stories. The greater emphasis on the visual components was highlighted before the redesign was launched; the top part of the pages are now crammed with pictures and…
"While the size of the online audiences for many top newspaper sites are reasonable, engagement is lacking (the average visitor to a Newspaper site is only spending 24 minutes per month on the site), which limits these sites’ available inventory. Newspaper sites need to continue to look for ways to more deeply engage with the…
I was looking at Al Jazeera’s new blogs listings page on its site and wondered what approaches designers take these days while designing such pages. News websites have moved away from the plain, unembellished blogs listing style of the past and tend to fit blog listing pages into a news hierarchy mould these days. Which…
"There appears to be no end to the adaptability and imagination of our audiences and we must keep up," BBC’s Global News director Richard Jeremy Sambrook is reported to have said at the World Media Summit, which began in Beijing on Friday. One of the topics of discussion at the three-day summit focused on how…
Google CEO Eric Schmidt believes that it is “personalized news-reading experiences on mobile-type devices” that will dominate the media scene in over a decade or so. “And that that(sic) kind of news consumption will be very personal, very targeted. It will remember what you know. It will suggest things that you might want to know.…
Here's the RSS feed for the brief posts that appear in the adjacent column on the left. These are excluded from the main feed.
