Top 10 US newspaper websites

The Biving's report has just produced its top 10 American newspaper sites

Newspapers selected were among the 100 largest in the U.S., and in addition to being judged by their abundance of web features, were graded on design and easy usability.

Top of the list was the New York Times which the report says

manages to combine classic style with managing a frequent onslaught of new web features,

closely followed by the Washington Post which whose home page it describes as crowded but buried beneath it

are some of the best efforts at direct user interactivity to be found among newspaper websites

Five misnomers for newspapers online

The Bivings report blog (via Martin Stabe identifies 5 misconceptions that newspapers have about the internet.



1.That it is the enemy-but only if they fail to use it correctly

2.That all the content should be displayed over the homepage.

Littering a homepage with buttons and links distracts people's eyes and prevent them from focusing on anything. Newspapers are better off leading with a couple of big headlines and pictures, letting a strong navigation do the rest of the work.

3.That people will pay for online content-a misnomer that surley by now has been misproved

4.That newspapers cannot compete with online classifieds

5.That the web is complicated