The battle over readers’ time and attention is greater than ever before, yet news companies are failing to innovate at a fast enough pace. From personalisation through responsive design to paywalls, newspapers have been playing catch-up with digital media for a number of years now. However today’s news websites and apps are still using legacy paradigms copied from print media, without adapting nor taking full advantage of digital technology. In this session I aim to highlight some of the issues with current news websites and apps and present a number of proposals for the delivery of tomorrow’s digital news.
