NPR launches major website update
NPR has launched a top-to-bottom revision of the network’s web site. The new approach has a lot in common with what we’ve developed as part of our RadioEngage project, which is in the final tuning stages.
I’d be interested in learning feedback about what you like and don’t like about the new npr.org; I’ll share it with the team that’s putting the finishing touches on the new kusp.org.
Mike Lambert said,
July 27, 2009 @ 10:55 am
I like it. Home page VERY similiar to New York Times and kinda similar to Wash. Post, WSJ, FT, BBC. Lots of white; on the surface very simple, unfussy, with, I assume, lots going on beneath the surface (beefing up search capibilities). Has the solid feel of a site that has been tested on lots of folks to lessen confusion.
Well place photos throughout site (impt. to me I find). 1/3 down page changes format (NYT calls it “Inside NYT.com”). And continues to give even more detailed info the further down you go. I like the way “Listen” is handled in the masthead.
For the future of journalism I like the fact that NPR is beefing up its written reporting and distribution of that reporting.
This website increases the impact on local stations of the “bypass issue.” But I think that KUSP’s new site might consider linking like mad to NPR’s site strengthing KUSP’s positions as an impt. Monterey Bay Area portal site for news and culture. (I haven’t been keen on NPR copy so prominent on the current KUSP home page; a wider KUSP page format, if that is what is planned, would probably make me more “keen.”)
Paul Johnson said,
July 28, 2009 @ 4:14 pm
I, too like the new NPR web site.
Going to the KUSP web site just now I noticed NPR news stories repeated in different topic interest sections. Not good. Is it a glitch or the way it really works? If the latter, change the way it works.
Like Mike I think the briefest of links to stories on the NPR site are all that should appear on the KUSP site, at least on the KUSP home page.