Posted on 06/04/2008 12:14:40 PM PDT by bs9021
Washington Times Renews Website and Paper
by: Santiago Leon, June 04, 2008
The Washington Times has recently gone from a 20th Century newspaper to a 21st Century multimedia company that most other news organizations have become.
The Times renovated their website for the first time in about five years and changed the design, layout, to allow the readers to interact with today’s news.
The website will provide videos and audio webcasts that will be of news stories reported by the Times reporters.
The videos will also include six to eight original shows from popular personalities of the paper. One of the shows will be entitled Food for Thought, where two reporters from the newsroom will have a talk show about current events.
With implementation of these webcasts, the Times has turned its newsroom into a converged newsroom by adding a radio and TV studio.
The changes took place after the hiring of John F. Solomon to be Executive editor. Solomon came in January after spending most of his journalistic career with the Associated Press and a year with the Washington Post.
“We took advantage of something multimedia, things I’ve been doing in the industry. AP created the very first multimedia investigation team. Our goal is to liberate reporters from the two-dimensional storytelling to [go to] four dimensional storytelling,” said Solomon.
The home page of the site has more of a horizontal approach than the vertical approach, which the old site had. The user can use a scroll to switch from main story to a different story of the day....
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I was practically a charter subscriber to the Wash Times. I recently cancelled my subscription after a series of very unflattering pictures, headlines and placements of Republicans. I mailed them to the editor with a letter. I hoped they would call me, but nothing. I may look at their web site occasionally, but getting a WashPost person to be editor was not a good move IMHO.
They just doubled the price of their daily from $0.25 to $0.50 too!
Dang...thought there was an Obamanado...
I just noticed this. Wow. I like it.
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