Just last week we were surprised to see a blog post on the front page of your St. Pete Times. Today, they embedded a YouTube video within a story, and used a Google mashup map.
Meanwhile, the Tribune’s front page looks just like a typical online news site, with one story ( a sidebar, really), a look at the “week ahead,” and eight teasers to get you to click er… turn to inside pages.
To be sure, the front page of the Trib has been heading this way for months now. And I don’t see anything wrong with it. It does make the paper feel like a tabloid or a magazine. But then again, it’s nice to have a “table of contents” of sorts.
tim
2 years ago
Seriously? That’s today’s Tribune?
I haven’t left the house yet today, but I have to see this for myself. Sunday, June 10, 2007 apparently must go down in infamy as a day nothing happened.
dreaming
2 years ago
a ‘newspaper’ as thin as the trib doesnt need to use its front page as a table of contents of what is inside. the whole thing takes about 45 seconds to flip through as it is. to use page 1 real estate to ‘tease’ to the fabulous stories within is the height of ludicrousness.