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A new look to The Daily Sentinel
A group of editors has been working hard for the past few weeks, thinking about how to best package The Daily Sentinel to make it more useful to readers.
The fruits of their labors will be unveiled next month, when your Daily Sentinel will, while still containing all the news and features you’re used to, plus some, have a different look and feel.
Already you’ve probably noticed that our front page doesn’t look like it used to. It’s much more graphically intense, and every day we pick one story and, as we say in this business, “go deep” with it.
But beginning Sept. 1, the changes will become even more profound. I won’t give away all the details here. Our marketing department is hard at work on promotional ads to do that, and I’ll be writing more about the changes in the coming weeks both here and in the newspaper. But I will say that, among other things, the news will flow much more logically than it does now.
In the meantime, I’d like to thank Managing Editor Laurena Davis, News Editor Brian Harvey, City Editor Tim Harty and Copy Editor Erik Lincoln for all the hard work they’ve put into this project.
We all think it will be a much improved newspaper, and, as always, we’ll be anxious to hear what you think.
Comments
By gdh
August 10, 2008 6:52 AM | Link to this
One thing would be well received is for your on-line addition to end the practice of entering your zip every time a reader goes in to read, e-mail or print an article. I personally read about a dozen papers a day on line and GJDS is the only one from New York to Seattle I have to submit information to before I can pull up the article. I understand your looking for demographics but case in point is my recent vacation in Seattle. I used my son’s computer but put in my local 815 zip, so what good did it do?
Looking forward to your changes.
By Todd P.
August 11, 2008 1:33 PM | Link to this
gdh, are you really getting the ZIP code sign on every time you go to read an article? That cookie should only need to be set once; it shouldn’t go away until you clear it out. In other words, you should only have to punch in a ZIP code once in a great while, not every time you visit the site if you’re not frequently clearing out cookies.
Overall, ZIP code sign-on has been an extremely effective tool for GJSentinel.com and a big improvement over our former user registration. It’s not something we’re likely to give up anytime soon, but we do want it to operate as smoothly and unobtrusively as possible.
Please feel free to e-mail me at todd.powell@gjsentinel.com if you have any questions or comments. Thanks.