Showing posts with label web sites. Show all posts
Showing posts with label web sites. Show all posts

Monday, February 9, 2015

64 Ways To Think About a News Homepage

Medium reporting:
By news homepage, I mean any way for a user to first encounter content. A push notification could very well be the new news homepage. (Related: Ways to think about push notifications.) An app is a news homepage.An article or a newsletter is a news homepage. If you listen to the news, Overcast or Soundcloud or the iTunes store may be your homepage. YouTube can be your homepage. Homepage, to me, is simply a shorthand version for any of these things. You can substitute any of the words I mentioned for homepage below.
There are lots of ways to think about a news homepage. We’ll start with the basics. 1. You can have a list of stories curated by a person, arranged by topic, the way the New York Times homepage does...64. A news story that explains everything you see on a graph, chart, or other data viz. You click on each portion for a full explanation, in words — in case you prefer words to pictures.


https://medium.com/thelist/64-ways-to-think-about-a-news-homepage-223c01952d26

Wednesday, April 20, 2011

U.K.'s Mail Online Becomes the World's Second Most Popular News Site

AdWeek reporting:


The Daily Mail's website Mail Online has surpassed the Huffington Post as the world's second most popular news website, according to March data from comScore, and now ranks behind only The New York Times' site in comScore’s newspaper category.
Mail Online reported a 27 percent rise in unique visitors between February and March, to 39,635,000, while the Huffington Post recorded a 20 percent lift, to 38,429,000 unique visitors.
Mail Online has grown in popularity over the past few years because of its "showbiz-laden front page," says the Guardian, and because of its increased coverage of U.S. news, with expanded

http://www.adweek.com/news/press/uks-mail-online-becomes-worlds-second-most-popular-news-site-130760