We’re delighted to bring you a brand new site. After months of work, the wonderfully talented developer Juan Breinlinger has made it for us to unveil today.
Throughout the painstaking process, he has been advised by webmaster Len McLaughlin. The brilliant Georgina Breinlinger designed the super new logo. Hover over the logo and it wobbles! Editor Marc Wadsworth and his deputy Deborah Hobson have guided the process to deliver a site that offers the most up to date online features, including one that makes it mobile device-friendly, for all of you with smartphones, iPads and the like.
We want you to have the best user experience possible on a bright, modern, easy to navigate site that is image and video-led.
Because of the increasing menace of spammers we’ve reluctantly had to bring in some restrictions. For instance, our registered users can no longer instantly publish blogs and comments on stories. Now such content will go into a moderation queue for approval by our editors, as is the case for most other sites.
We hope you enjoy the new site and will spread the word about it to all your contacts. You could use our social media buttons to do this. And, above all, please contribute stories, comments, blogs, images and video for these are the lifeblood of The-Latest.Com’s citizen journalism.
To make it easier to submit content, we have introduced Your Report, a new feature that allows anyone, anywhere – whether a registered user or not – to send it to us.
We’ve produced a page to help guide registered users to submit content. As a registered user you can submit stories, blogs, comments and have access to the hugely popular Journalism Tips. All content from the old site has been migrated to the new one. But, if you spot any errors, formatting or otherwise, please let us know.
Your feedback about the new site would be greatly welcomed.
Thomas L. Blair is a sociologist and political blogger on the Chronicleworld 'for creative renewal in Black Britain and Afro-Europe'. His work is honoured in the British Library's archive of "social, historic and culturally significant web-based material from the UK domain". He won top prize in the blogging competition on The-Latest.
Sumantra Maitra is a freelance journalist from Mumbai, India. He is a correspondent for All Sports magazine, and a foreign affairs blogger for the Washington Examiner. He has written articles for news website Merinews.com and other regional publications. Sumantra runs a blog at DailyWorldWatch.wordpress.com. He provided exclusive eyewitness reports for The-Latest on the Mumbai bombings of 2008.
Brian Usher is photography consultant for The-Latest.Com. He is a highly experienced editorial and commercial photographer whose work has been published throughout the world, appearing in many well known magazines and newspapers. Brian has featured in several books and has been a writer for the Royal Photographic Society magazine.
Heidi Kingstone has spent time in Afghanistan reporting for a number of publications. Her work has appeared in the Financial Times, The Spectator, The Sunday Times and other international journals. She has also reported from places like Iraq, Rwanda, Lebanon, Sudan, Democratic Republic of Congo, and Kenya. Heidi is The-Latest's Editor at large.
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