Honey, They Shrunk the Newspaper, Part 2

Jack Shafer digs deeper into the electronic/digital versions of newspapers: last time he looked at New York Times, the Washington Post, and the Los Angeles Times, and had some suggestions. This time he looks at Florida Today and Guardian electronic editions.

Sometimes, plain common sense usability works: “What sets Florida Today and the Guardian apart from the pack is the way they preserve the basic navigation principles of a daily newspaper. Most electronic editions swamp the screen with a PDF of a newsprint page or two. But Florida Today and the Guardian put a PDF of the page the left and a list of HTML headlines from the page on the right.”

“Perhaps electronic editions should concentrate on improving upon the architecture of the daily newspaper, not merely mimicking it.”

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