Einar Thorsen

Professor of Journalism and Communication at Bournemouth University

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BBC News website redesign – comments from editors and designers

15 July, 2010 by Einar Thorsen Leave a Comment

Steve Herrmann, editor of the BBC News website:

What’s new:
• a fresh, updated design, with more space for the main stories of the day
• better use of video and images
• clearer and more prominent labelling and signposting of key stories, whether you are on the front page or a story page
• a better indication of which are the most recent headlines
• easier ways to share stories with others, for those who wish to, on social media networks

As I also mentioned in my earlier post, some important things are staying just the same, for example:
• all the content is still there: the best of the BBC’s journalism in text, audio and video?
• the latest news headlines will be as quick and comprehensive as ever ?
• accuracy remains at the core of our editorial values?
• we’ve been careful to keep things simple and easy to use; you have told us how important this is

From: BBC News website redesign (2)

Paul Sissons, UX Team Lead, BBC Future Media & Technology:

Fundamental to the new GVL is bold, strong type and crisp, un-cluttered layouts. The gradients and textures of “Web 2.0” are gone, and everything is pared down to the minimum required for delivering news.

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With an incentive, users will scroll. If that proves a positive interaction, it’s something that could become habitual. So rather than design our indexes and front page with everything at the top of the page, we are encouraging scrolling by putting richer content within stories and towards the bottom.

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Across the project, there was a concern that larger images, bolder headlines and more links could make pages overbearing. Having a column of white at the right-hand side of a story’s body was one of the design decisions made explicitly to counter this.

From: BBC News website redesign: telling the story

Erik Huggers, Director of BBC Future Media & Technology:

This has been a major engineering project for the Future Media and Technology Division and I believe it’s a great example of engineering and design working hand in glove with editorial – a way of working that I talked about at the Media Guardian Changing Media Summit earlier this year. To give an example we have improved the content management system, which will make it easier for journalists to upload their story and add video and pictures to it more quickly and gives them better control of the layout.

From: BBC News website redesign

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BBC News website redesign

6 July, 2010 by Einar Thorsen Leave a Comment

Steve Herrmann:

And we've done something which will be less obvious to you, but hugely important to the journalists working on the site. We've completely rebuilt the content production system (CPS) which we use to create content and run the site. The new version of the CPS is designed to be easier to use and – crucially when we want to get stories out to you fast – quicker too. It's also built to be more flexible, so it should be easier to keep the site evolving, and to produce the content in ways that work well on other platforms, such as mobile.

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Inter-Korean crisis: Propaganda fight

28 May, 2010 by Einar Thorsen Leave a Comment

BBC News examines propaganda from both sides in recent Korean conflict.

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Last attempts to avert BA strikes – BBC News

23 May, 2010 by Einar Thorsen Leave a Comment

    "However, a further row has erupted between the union and BA, which has accused Unite joint leader Derek Simpson of providing a "running commentary" of the "delicate negotiations" on Twitter.

    The Twitter entries under the name derekamicus, on a page with photograph of Mr Simpson, included, "Arguments over the 8 sacked workers," and then, "Fear of more sackings to come."

    Unite insisted "references to Tweeting are peripheral to the real concerns to passengers" and that it was "ready to resume talks with BA at any time"."

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Britons spend more than ‘one day a month online’ – BBC News

19 May, 2010 by Einar Thorsen Leave a Comment

    "British web users are spending 65% more time online than three years ago, according to research of net habits.

    The average surfer spends 22 hours and 15 minutes on the net each month, according to the UK Online Measurement company (UKOM).

    The lion's share of that time is spent on social networks or blogs, which accounts for nearly a quarter of users' time online.

    […]

    Online news has also seen strong growth with 2.8% of online time spent browsing such sites compared to just 1.5% three years ago.

    People spend more time on news sites than they do on adult content, the survey shows.

    TIME SPENT ONLINE

    Continue reading the main story
    Social networks/blogs – 22.7%
    E-mail – 7.2%
    Games – 6.9%
    Instant Messaging – 4.9%
    Classified/Auctions – 4.7%
    Portals – 4%
    Search – 4%
    Software info/products – 3.4%
    News – 2.8%
    Adult – 2.7%
    Source: UKOM"

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