On 18 September 2009, beloved London evening freesheet thelondonpaper folded. In its wake, London Lite remains. While the closure is part of a larger effort by owners News International to trim the fat from their portfolio and erect paywalls around profitable titles, it also speaks to the future of freesheets on the web. Back in April, thelondonpaper re-launched their web site.
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Express.co.uk is about to undergo a redesign. I broke the news here, and there’s a good review of the new look (still currently in beta) at econsultancy.
So the Independent has relaunched its website. At first glance there’s nothing spectacularly new or innovative, but a deeper look reveals some intelligent changes – particularly on the business side of things. Here are the headlines:
Alex Gamela talks to António Granado, editor of the online edition of Público, a reference newspaper in Portugal, as they relaunch their website. Público have always been ahead as far as online presence is concerned, and recently the newsroom created a video team, as well as launching a redesigned website. In this short interview, we tried to ask a very
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German regional publisher WAZ just launched its new flagship website, Der Westen. New features include geotagging, blogs and keyword filtering, monitored from a futuristic-looking newsroom. Martin Stabe has the details. The concept, writes Der Spiegel, is to let users choose the centre of their world, their perspective on news. Der Westen then provides content around it. The FAZ today has
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The Rake Today: Lambert to the Slaughter “Next Monday appears to be the date for former Star Tribune editor and publisher Joel Kramer to reveal his plans for the launch of a professionally edited and reported online newspaper.” to onlinejournalism independentjournalism Newspaper offer readers ‘Riddle’ A British indie feature is rewriting distribution rules by becoming the first to preem as
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Here’s another lovely use of wikis: BivingsReport have one on ‘Ways to Improve Newspaper Websites’. Simple principle, just add your suggestion to the list (or refine others). Worth watching.
As solo sports journalist Rick Waghorn relaunches his Norwich City news website in the first step towards franchising the service, I spoke to him about going solo, the importance of advertising, and the likely first places for the franchise to expand. Originally, Waghorn says, the plan was to offer a franchise “in much the same way as you would set
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“Jim” at CNN.com has invited me to look at the beta version of the new CNN.com (screengrab top; current design below) for the Online Journalism Blog. He knows how to make a man feel special. So of course I oblige, and the site? Well, I’m somewhat underwhelmed. In a year of relaunches, CNN’s effort lacks the ‘big canvas’ approach that seems to
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Relaunched Liverpool Trinity Mirror sites: a thumbs-up
Trinity Mirror have finally relaunched the first of their local newspaper websites, with the Liverpool Post and Liverpool Echo breaking free of that ‘icLiverpool’ brand and into individually branded sites that reflect their different markets. It’s been a move the ‘ic’ sites have needed for a long time, and the contrast is considerable. The endless list of vertical navigation options
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