The New CNN.com (First Screenshots)

My #1 request from is that they give me the option of text/video for every article that has video. When I'm watching another video or listening to music I don't want to turn it off just to see the story. They don't appear to be fixing this.

Interesting to see that they put their logo in the center instead of the top left-- I think it's a little distracting, but maybe this will become a new trend.

Each page seems to have less stuff on it than before, which is a good thing. Now it's much less cluttered and more logically organized.

Well, it is better late than never.

I do not know if they are going to do it, but it would be nice that you can customize it with your preferences about type of news (sports, politics, etc.), location, etc. For what I have read it includes many "social media" sources but it lacks in personalization.

Some months ago the BBC also changed its web site to make it more "Web 2.0". You can personalize it at some level. For example local weather forecast, type of news, type of tv shows in the iPlayer, financial data, etc.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/

It actually looks like a modern multimedia webpage now. I rather like it.

While I don't like the quality of their news reporting, I think CNN is one of the few news entertainment companies that really understands web design and has a minimally coherent plan for integrating with the internet. A UX guy at my work was describing how the current design is used as almost a textbook example at a good tech school of a clean way of presenting information.

Contrast that, for example, to nytimes.com which is literally designed to look as similar as possible to the newspaper. Like I said, their "journalism" is garbage but maybe some startup or media company can emulate their ability to create an interface that encourages users to explore.

I see they still haven't addressed the issue of providing their readers with real news: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=888251

I don't think they could have made it look more like Last.fm.

Well they get points for honesty, the word "news" doesn't appear anywhere in their heading. But they have have a huge entertainment section. I guess they are the new MTV where the original meaning of their name has been lost, it's just branding for any content.

(The only time I watch CNN anymore is before 9am when they have CNN Asia/Europe on which is actually real news.)

the inconsistancy between page templates is mindblowing