Cambodia’s most innovative newspaper

This early 2008 sees The Phnom Penh Penh Web site’s got a new look–very casual, simple, and features-rich. It’s claimed that the new redesign newspaper Web site is modeled after the look and feel of the BBC and the Guardian Unlimited site [but why not the New York Times?].

On Saturday, a day before the new site came up, I took a look at the site via this web address http://thepppost.com/ when I was trying to load The Phnom Penh Post site (http://www.phnompenhpost.com/) on my favorite web browser Mozilla Firefox. I came to understand that there was some changes made at its back-end.

And what’s the new revolutionary features included? It’s got a Blog section, of course, and so it comes with the Web feed.

Its old site used HTML frames to present the news content in multiple views. The problem is: it’s not compatible with some mobile web browsers. And to access its online Full Edition one needs to be a subscriber. I enjoy reading the BBC, The New York Times, and International Herald Tribune for how I can access to most of the content.

I’m not that so surprise that this country’s oldest English-language newspaper has now become the most innovative

Let’s wait and see the bounce back of The Cambodia Daily, an English-language daily newspaper started in 1993, just one year only after The Post.

The Economist has an interesting piece, Who killed the newspaper?, about the falling of the print newspaper and rising of the digital media.

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