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Mirror.co.uk joins competitors with homepage redesign
Not wanting to be left out following a new look for The Sun’s homepage last Friday, a Telegraph.co.uk redesign and the last stage of the Guardian’s site revamp, Mirror.co.uk began its relaunch on...
View Article10,000 Words: 10 Reasons why online news sites suck
We love a list here at Journalism.co.uk – here’s 10,000 Words’ guide to why ’50 million-word stories’ and ‘no links whatsoever’ don’t work for online news sites. Full story at this link…Similar Posts:...
View ArticleSND.org: World’s Best Design Awards for five papers
“In its 30th annual ‘The Best of Newspaper Design™ Creative Competition,’ the Society for News Design has named four newspapers from Europe and one from Mexico as ‘World’s Best-Designed Newspapers,™”...
View ArticleSND.org: 10 things I learned at the Rocky
“My mind races between sadness, disbelief, anger and a cold, whispering fear that what we are facing as an industry could very well do the rest of us in,” writes Jonathon Berlin. In a visually...
View ArticleSND.org: Sarah Slobin on being laid off –‘the office becomes like Lord of the...
“The tension is unbearable. The office becomes like ‘Lord of the Flies’. We split into tribes and dredge up weaknesses in our colleagues. We speculate. We make lists. It’s our survival mechanism. It’s...
View ArticleThe Australian: News Limited to create centralised sub-editing hub for...
Plans for a new sub-editing hub for News Limited’s titles in Australia, part of News Corporation, have been announced. More than 100 sub-editors and designers will move to the centralised production...
View Article10,000 Words: Four fixable sins of news site design
For those designing (or redesigning) a news site, this 10,000 Words blog is worth a look. It concentrates on four ‘fixable sins’ of news site design: swamps of share buttons; layers of navigation;...
View ArticleBBC launches new blogs homepage to ease navigation
The BBC today launched its newly designed blogs homepage, designed to ease navigation across the site’s almost 300 blogs. Changes include new sections for interesting quotes, a ‘latest on blogs’...
View Article10,000 Words: The new Washington Post site design
10,000 words takes a look at the new Washington Post site design. Changes include an “enhanced” commenting system allowing editors to prominently feature certain comments. According to 10,000 Words,...
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Independent launches bold new masthead and dumps viewspaper in makeover
The Indy has a bold new masthead to celebrate its 25th birthday. It certainly sticks out among all the other papers in the shop, which can be no bad thing for the relatively low-circulation title. The...
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Mirror.co.uk unveils new ‘cleaner’ look
The Daily Mirror today unveils a new-look website, at mirror.co.uk Before: how the site looked last week Mirror Online publisher Matt Kelly says in an introductory post that the “cleaner and less...
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#wef12: What news outlets can learn from magazines on content presentation
Image by VFS Digital Design on Flickr. Some rights reserved. Creative commons licence Bonnier Business Media designer Jacek Utko has previously spoken about the need for news outlets to break the...
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#Tip of the day for journalists: Digital design tools and tech
Image by kennymatic on Flickr. Some rights reserved. Lauren Rabaino of 10,000 Words this week posted a list of 10 tools which journalists working in digital news design may find of use in the areas of...
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#Podcast – Adapting to change: How and why news sites are moving to...
With regular launches of new mobile devices only adding to the different platforms people are consuming news from, a number of media outlets have recently announced moves towards responsive designs to...
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#Tip: Download these free ebooks on journalism
By Wiertz Sebastien on Flickr. Some rights reserved. Paul Bradshaw compiled a list of 20 free e-books (later updated to 37) and published them on his Online Journalism Blog. Topics such as online...
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#Podcast – Meeting readers at the front door: lessons in news site homepage...
By Dikke Biggie on Flickr. Some rights reserved. The constantly evolving nature of the web means sites have to regularly update how they present themselves. The New York Times is set to undergo a major...
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#Tip: Download these storyboard templates
By eelke dekker on Flickr. Some rights reserved The visual nature of the web means that video is becoming a central aspect of a news organisation’s output, even if they have traditionally been focussed...
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#Tip: 7 data visualisation tips for beginners
By Jorge Fran Ganillo on Flickr. Some rights reserved. The rise in the use of data in journalism has brought with it a need to be able to accurately portray that data in a way that is easy for readers...
View ArticleNYTimes innovation plans: Widgets, iPhone, APIs
Silicon Valley Insider talked to Marc Frons, chief technology officer of NYTimes digital, about the projects he’s working on and the development that they’ll be rolling out in the near future. Here’s a...
View ArticleTelegraph.co.uk redesign: engagement above traffic?
Speaking at yesterday’s preview of the Telegraph.co.uk redesign, both chief information officer Paul Cheesbrough and digital editor Edward Roussel said the new site was aimed at ‘deeper engagement’...
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