WaPo Makeover

Because I live 20 minutes away from the district on a good day with light traffic, I view the Washington Post website multiple times a week for the news (..duh), but also for good places to eat, museum exhibits and dun. dun. dun. traffic. Dr. Gridlock helps me guesstimate my journey via 495 from northern Virginia (USA Today internship) to my comfy home in Maryland and vice versa. This past weekend I saw a Tweet relating the WaPo makeover news with a link and voila I saw a cleaner, fresher website. It's a less junkier format, crisp and neat like the New York Times. Yet, the site still has something Post-ish about it that separates it from the NYT website. It reminds me a bit of Gawker's redesign, just a tad bit, though. The PDF version of the paper is displayed prominently, which is quite refreshing, given I haven't seen a print WaPo newspaper in months. It recreates the feeling without the hassle of recycling the paper afterwards. The one seemingly trivial option that I love ("single page") is now at the top of the article. I honestly, don't even know why the stories are broken in to pages online. Perhaps loading issues...or some people don't read the entire story :0 All in all, this is a great new look for the Wapo.

Immigration Conundrum

This interactive gives a comprehensive insight about American immigration enforcement. I HIGHLY suggest everyone take a look.




Via http://seattlepostglobe.org/


The slideshow runs a bit fast, but it's still pretty impressive.

I would also take a look here. It's a mixture of global story telling and web magic~