New ways of linking
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| 10:10 UK time, Monday, 18 August 2008
We started a trial this week on the website of a different way of linking from within the body of news stories to related background material - our own and other people's.
There's an early example on this story:
The trial will last for about four weeks, for technical reasons is confined for now to the UK edition of the site (which you can select from the left hand side navigation) and is designed to gather your feedback and help us work out the editorial and practical implications of linking in this way from stories.
Linking to relevant background obviously isn't anything new on the site - we've always done it, mostly from the right-hand side of story pages, where we put our own related links, external ones and often a "Newstracker" box listing other news sources. We also do it regularly from textboxes within the main story.
Read more and comment at The Editors.
Steve Herrmann is Editor, ´óÏó´«Ã½ News website.
