You may have noticed the preliminary launch of our new website, the product of a six-month redesign by Julia Balfour, an integrated creative agency based in Haddam.
- The new website features a refined search function for the more than 3,000 news stories published since our launch in May 2019.
- A new regional focus, allowing us to maintain a hyper-local focus, even as we expand across the state. Now you can efficiently search by time, by topic, or by region.
- A new look and font compatible with mobile devices: more than 75% of our readers access us through their phones.
- We’ve added a “lyrics” tab to our top bar and created a separate category, apart from our editorial and regular columns. We welcome your letters to the editor at [email protected]
- After three years of word of mouth, on June 15 we also launched our first major ad campaign sponsoring WSHU Public Radio: Big News Needs Big Partners.
- We will also debut regular news columns on politics, food and wine, energy, and education.
- If you haven’t already, sign up for our Sunday Digest here, to get the latest news delivered to your inbox – we won’t sell or share your information, and we don’t spam.
Part of what is driving the changes? A readership that stretches from Boston to New York, with over 120,000 unique readers every month… Here’s what our Connecticut readership looks like for the last 30 days:
As thousands of newspapers close across the United States, we’re trying something different…and it seems to be working.
Thanks again for your support.
