The Leader website is a crucial spot for our content. We love the way we can use it to complement the rest of the print product. If you're reading these blogs, you know that we're online all day, every day.
Today, because of the ever-growing presence of the Internet in daily life, we have to be cognizant of things like "print" product and "online" assets, or components such as articles, photos or PDF documents we can use to get information out on the web.
The reporters and I spent the afternoon getting trained on a new "content management" system called Blox that will allow us to continue to grow our online product. It's a system that will inable us to not only provide the content that you see in the print edition each, week, but things like photo galleries.
It will even, if all goes right, host our blogs on the front page so you can get updates, movie reviews and a taste of the past from the reporters throughout the week.
There isn't a set date that our new site will be launched. We're crossing our fingers that it's sooner rather than later.
Like I've said before, I find the Internet so exciting because it can only enhance the print edition, which in the end, I believe, remains the most crucial part of what a journalist does because it's the piece that will go down in history. A
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