New Construction Of Two Kinds

Change is everyone’s constant companion at the Courant these days, and it is starting to show  in a couple different ways.

The newsroom, for one thing, is soon to become a full-fledged construction zone akin to the last big building project when Times Mirror filled in the so-called “sliver” — the part of the main newsroom where the reporters now sit.  The Flower Street elevator will no longer stop at the third floor, since that whole end of the building (and much of the main newsroom), will be reworked into TV studios.

The Courant’s website is also going to be rebuilt, starting Monday, though the remodeled site won’t be launched until late June. It will be interesting to see what kind of changes are in the works. (All the Tribune Co.’s sites will undergo this process this summer.)

Ironically, where the newspaper suffers from too little content, the website suffers from having too much that’s hard to find. Hopefully that will be corrected, along with the overly boxy design. The web does a better job than print of hiding the fact that there is so much less local news.

Tribune Interactive is bringing in a web expert from Orlando to help with the enormous amount of work the producers will have to get done. His name is Danny Sanchez — a programmer I met during a database meeting in Chicago. He’s a nice guy, creative, and experienced.  (He and I got stuck in a horrendous thunderstorm while trying to leave Chicago. It knocked out power for half a day, made getting to the airport a horror show, and eventually caused our flights to be canceled.  He didn’t lose his composure in our scramble to find a cab and, later, motels to crash for the night, so I’m sure the staff will like him even under the pressure of a production deadline.)

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