This is today's Asbury Park Press; click on the image for a bigger view. Press reporter Margaret Bonafide is one of Gannett's growing number of mojos. Bonafide told News Watch she lives and dies by her Treo, a brand of smartphone. "The ultimate multi-tasker,'' she wrote in September. "I can make phone calls, take photos, send e-mails and connect my laptop to the Internet to transmit photos or video. The speed is about DSL quality."Online, the Press' website may be the most jumbled, impossible-to-navigate site I've seen in Gannett so far. Attention editors: Run, don't walk, to launch that new much-easier-to-navigate version now in beta!
And about that new site: I've noticed that some Gannett newspapers are shifting to a new template -- the one being considered by the Press. Looks like the Des Moines Register and the Desert Sun both use it; how do you guys like it? More questions: Didn't all the papers already switch to a new design earlier this year, when reader commenting was added? Why are sites changing again? What's the timetable? And will this template be used companywide? E-mail tips, snarky letters, suggested links, etc.; see Tipsters Anonymous Policy in the sidebar, upper right. Or leave a note in the comments section, below.
The Press at a glance:
- Publisher: Thomas Donovan
- Executive Editor and Vice President/News: Skip Hidlay
- Founded: 1879
- Joined Gannett: 1997
- Employees: 1,492
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Hey, when mycentraljersey.com finally gets rolled out after delay after delay after delay, we won't need the Asbury Park Press' website anyway. Redundant, redundant, redundant.
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