A Look Forward – Note from the EIC
Since our last discussion with you, we’ve embraced much change in the newsroom as we respond to the phenomenon of technology that has shaken up traditional media and its products. After a long and intensive re-design, our new website has a fresh new feel and we encourage you to explore its new contents. The newsroom is moving online faster than ever, and we’re committed to updating our website throughout the news day with new headlines, blog posts and multimedia features. Our website offers great potential in expanding our coverage and our audience, and we plan to take advantage of that potential this year by adding features and reorganizing the way news is presented online.
We hope that yaledailynews.com will offer a more interesting, interactive experience to the Yale community — but also to you, alumni of 202 York St. This website, alumni.yaledailynews.com, has stagnated in recent years, along with the OCD newsletters, so we hope to reintroduce the newsletter and reinvigorate this website to ensure that we keep up our dialogue with you. For those of you connected to Facebook and LinkedIn, we have alumni groups on both of those sites. If you haven’t registered on this website, please do so that we can reach you more easily.
As everyone who attended the rededication ceremonies in October knows, we are committed to keeping in touch with you, our predecessors at the News. Thanks so much for coming; students loved the opportunity to talk to past editors, and we’d like to continue those conversations by asking you back to campus to speak and by inviting you to participate in reunion events and our open houses.
YaleDailyNews.com
Along with our redesigned newspaper and renovated building (which you can read more about http://www.yaledailynews.com/celebrate/about/), our board came into the year with a redesigned website, based on a professional content management system. This fall, therefore, is a very exciting time for the Yale Daily News online. Among others, the new features we plan to explore this year are redesigned landing pages for the opinion, arts and living, and magazine sections; a more tightly moderated commenting system; more customizable headlines e-mails; and a redesigned blog, which will expand to cover everything from arts and livings posts to breaking news. On the opinion front, we plan to invite staff columnists to host student roundtables on the issues of the day, as well as to blog about their thoughts.
Most importantly, we’ve managed to recruit students in-house who are able to program and design our website, not to mention fill it with content. We’re excited for them, under our guidance, to build on the successes of the past year.
—Vivian Yee, Board of 2012
