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Conventional wisdom can be misleading for online editors tackling newspaper website design. Traditional website design of UK papers, with lots of white space, neat boxes and strong page formation may not be the most profitable.

Most conventional news sites are designed with consideration that users don’t like to scroll. Thus most content is crammed intop the top 480 pixels of the screen. 24Sata in Croatia has even come up with a ‘no-scroll’ homepage design, which fits everything on one screen – and has proved successful so far.

By contrast, Swedish newspaper Aftonbladet’s opted for a website design with extremely long and narrow pages, that are “loaded with garish boxes and stories with enormous headlines stacked on top of each other,” reported the Press Gazette.

The site’s strategy is to make every page a front page, by including the front page at the bottom of every story page. Although seemingly unpleasant for users, this design becomes increasingly important as users directly come to stories through search engines and RSS feeds.

“Every single design rule that you have ever been taught has been broken here, but they are making more money than you will ever dream of,” said Mark Comerford, a new media lecturer at the University of Stockholm, speaking to regional newspaper online editors in the UK.

And yet Aftonbladet.se is Sweden’s second-largest site after MSN, with 3.5 million unique users. Its parent company, Schibsted, is arguably one of the world’s most successful newspapers groups in its transition to digital publishing.

The main point here isn’t that online editors should delve into Aftonbladet-style design, or that a no-scroll homepage is more user-friendly. But they should rid themselves of preconceptions, said Comerford:

“If there are other sites that violate everything that you would consider the rules of good design, and yet they work, then what can you learn from that?”

Source: Press Gazette

CNN.com, which forayed into citizen journalism last year, is to expand its experiment by creating iReport.com, a citizen journalism feature within its actual news portal.

According to MediaWeek, the site (still under construction) is to be similar to a video-sharing platform and will be video-centric, where “wannabe Anderson Coopers can upload videos, photos and audio files.”

It’s still unclear as to how the site will be moderated, if at all.

During previous attempts by CNN to delve into citizen media, such as its campaign debates organized with YouTube, “they not only came away with egg on their face, but gave significant black-eyes to New Media in the process in the eyes of the public,” according to Mark Hopkins in Mashable.com.

Source: Mashable.com through Journerdism

Leading French daily Ouest-France is to delve into online videojournalism for the upcoming municipal elections, with three mobile studios that will provide coverage from about 50 different cities.

Must-read. The American Journalism Review takes a look at the reinvention of the newsroom and editorial process through the eyes of the Atlanta Journal-Constitution’s (AJC), Politico, and others.

As Earth Day approaches, several US newspapers and publications have launched environmentally-friendly websites and features. As Green increasingly becomes an issue for investors and companies, newspapers seem to be tapping into the market.

The following is an overview of the US State of the News Media Report’s findings concerning digital journalism. The report defines six key online journalistic qualities that newspapers should be exploiting, and evaluates how well they are currently doing so.

As the 2008 US presidential election nears and online politics soar, newspapers are making sure they’re ready to get their online share of the pie. The New York Times (NYT) and The New York Sun both announced they were launching political websites.

The Elaph website reported that the Al-Arabiya newspaper is preparing to launch in the Saudi capital, Riyadh, in the months to come. Al-Arabiya’s coverage remains mysterious until now.