The City from Concordia
Noticed recently that Concordia is producing a slick online magazine called The City. It has a sheaf of pieces up. My main beefs with the design is that the pictures are REALLY BIG on a desktop monitor, but chiefly, that they need to put a date on the stories, along with the credit line.
Clément 10:16 on 2020-05-11 Permalink
There is a “Published date” way at the bottom of the articles
Blork 10:16 on 2020-05-11 Permalink
It’s pretty slick. You do get bylines when you click through to a story, and you get the publication date at the bottom of the story. What this tells me is that the site is designed to ensure maximum clicking and scrolling, which is a red flag for people over 40 but is “web savvy” to people under 30 (web savvy from the publisher’s POV, not the reader, but for such savvy publishers, readers are not people, they’re just impressions, so the more you get the better.)
Kate 10:21 on 2020-05-11 Permalink
Hmm. thought I saw one with no date. But if this stuff wants to be taken seriously as journalism, it should have the date up top.
denpanosekai 10:42 on 2020-05-11 Permalink
Dates should definitely be at the top of each article AND on the main page.
Joey 14:00 on 2020-05-11 Permalink
It’s a bit misleading to say “Concordia” is producing this… it’s really students from the journalism program (along with faculty):
“The City is a digital, multi-media magazine created by upper-year students in the Department of Journalism at Concordia University for The Digital Magazine class, under the supervision of faculty and staff members in the department. The City strives to tell the untold and hidden stories of Montreal and its surrounding areas. The reporting aims to be as balanced, fair and professional as possible.”
http://thecitymag.concordia.ca/policy-documents/
There’s a 2019 edition. Kudos to these students for putting together something so slick, presumably at very low cost.
Sean 15:48 on 2020-05-12 Permalink
No RSS feed?! Blasphemy…