What CNET’s redesign has meant for copyeditors, reporters and editors

UNC-Chapel Hill journalism professor Andy Bechtel interviewed Dawnthea Price tag Lisco, a copy editor at tech news internet site CNET, about her job and her purpose in the site’s the latest redesign.

Listed here is an excerpt:

Q. CNET a short while ago underwent a major redesign. What do all those changes necessarily mean for you and other writers and editors there?

A. This is these a fortunate concern precisely for me! CNET’s relaunch went are living in late April, and as aspect of that crew, I was person-tests some of people characteristics — which includes our warm new homepage, which is now totally curated by a small group to improved showcase CNET’s depth and breadth. (Before, only Higher than the Fold was often curated.)

Matters have essentially fairly radically altered for me, in component mainly because I was so concerned with the genuine redesign: There have been some Technological Problems, as normal, so the major homepage scheduling is completed by a lesser-than-common team at present right until we can confidently say everything’s all set for a lot more cooks in the kitchen area.

I have been maintaining additional managing dialogues with editors to ensure that homepage ideas align with what visitors want and also with what editors want promoted. But CNET’s curation programs are now exhibiting promising returns, and I have the utmost self-confidence in our all round tactic as we continue on to good-tune it.

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