The Wall Street Journal set its revamped site live today, so here’s a breakdown of what’s changed and what’s new:
New
- Journal Community – a social networking feature for the site’s paying subscribers, which lets them comment on articles, ‘ask the expert’ and join topic-based networks and discussion groups
- Subscriber-only sections marked with a key icon and available for preview by non-subscribers
- Newsreel – a scrolling, horizontal panel topping article pages, which links to other top stories. (Seems to be on most US stories at the moment, as shown in the picture below)
- New video player and slideshow viewer
- A new WSJ.com mobile reader for the Blackberry
- New management section – available to subscribers only
Changes
- Expanded content across its What’s News, Heard on the Street, small business, technology, US and world news, politics, personal finance and lifestyle sections
- Improved navigation – including horizontal menu bar across all pages
- Redesigned article pages to support more multimedia content and provide ‘related analysis’
Paying subscribers to the site, which WSJ claims have risen to more than 1 million, will also have increased access to the site’s archive.
