Our new Web site offers readers more multimedia content than ever before

As journalism students, it’s easy to hate what newspaper’s Web sites have done to the industry. But we love ours.

We are lucky that our Web site hasn’t affected our print readership because The Red & Black caters mostly to the University community.

But at the same time, it is one of our most important goals to utilize the Internet to deliver news as fast and efficiently as possible.

Enter: our new Web site.

As of Friday, Jan. 15 redandblack.com looks better than ever. Under a new host, we have expanded our capacity to bring you campus news in many forms.

While we have always wanted redandblack.com to serve as an online archive of our print papers (especially for our devoted alumni readers), we really want the Web site to find new ways to keep you informed.

Our new home page is more conducive to multimedia packages. It is our goal to utilize this by featuring more slideshows, videos, interview audio samples and mp3s to deliver the news in ways that words and photos aren’t capable of doing.

As always, our Web site’s most important duty will be to break news as it happens, and bring you as much information as possible on how it will affect you.

If you are curious how the Web will change the objective of newspapers in our society, redandblack.com is a great place to experiment. We are in the process of hiring an online team of content producers. If you love to shoot video, create soundslides or just know a whole bunch about html — take a hike up to our office on the Baxter Street Hill or e-mail us at editor@randb.com.

Regardless, check out our new and improved Web site – it can’t wait to meet you!

— Chelsea Cook and Daniel Burnett for the editorial board.