BBC's new site launches, including North American edition
Posted by Leah McBride Mensching on July 15, 2010 at 12:09 PM
The BBC launched its new
news website yesterday: the biggest redesign of the site since 2003.
As
well as navigational and layout changes, improved video and sharing
capabilities, the BBC has created a new North American edition of
the site, BBC.com (as opposed to BBC.co.uk.)A new dedicated website team based in the BBC's Washington DC office will be "making sure that a new, North America edition front page reflects the stories, themes and issues which matter most to our users in the US and Canada," according to an article by the news website editor Steve Herrmann and the editor of the North America edition Matt Davis.
For more on this story, visit our sister publication, editorsweblog.org.
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news website </a>yesterday: the biggest redesign of the site since 2003.
<a href="http://www.editorsweblog.org/multimedia/2010/07/bbcs_new_w.php">As
well as navigational and layout changes, improved video and sharing
capabilities</a>, the BBC has created a new North American edition of
the site, BBC.com (as opposed to BBC.co.uk.)<br /><br />A new
dedicated website team based in the BBC's Washington DC office will be
"making sure that a new, North America edition front page reflects the
stories, themes and issues which matter most to our users in the US and
Canada," <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/10622630">according to an
article</a> by the news website editor Steve Herrmann and the
editor of the North America edition Matt Davis.<br /><br /><i>For more on this story, visit our sister publication, <a href="http://www.editorsweblog.org/multimedia/2010/07/bbcs_new_site_has_launched_including_spe.php">editorsweblog.org</a>.</i><br />&title=BBC's new site launches, including North American edition){kind=link}
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