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USA Edition | Today Is Tuesday, May 21, 2013 |
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Newsroom Magazine
Principal Focus Areas
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Beginning January 1, 2012 Newsroom Magazine redefined its journalistic mission to include both original and official government content. Our goal is to shed light on those areas or fields of endeavor that best equip our readers to more fully understand both the positive and negative implications of governance, politics, economics and public policy.
Journalism, news gathering, reporting, ethics and standards.
Media influence upon and dominance of American cultural and political values.
Finance, banking and monetary policy broadly including Federal Reserve actions, regulatory agency rule-making and enforcement, global markets, corporate governance and labor policy-making.
Economic theory and policy-making.
Science and technology broadly defined to include National Institutes of Health, National Science Foundation, research activities, pharmacology, astronomy, medicine, physics, digital systems, and cyber risks inherent in communications systems.
Definition of words or terms used in Newsroom Magazine whose meanings may be unclear, shifting in denotation and/or connotation, or whose specific meanings are plural in nature.
Logic concepts and definitions upon which Newsroom Magazine content is presented, argued or attributed.
The human condition congruent with American life, culture, civil connectedness and family relations.
Governance in apolitical terms to better underpin both our narrative and ‘of record’ information content.
Law whose development or application frames, alters or distorts American values, beliefs, or thought. Applies to legislation, process, regulatory extensions, courts, litigation and obtaining opinion.
News publishing to the degree it impacts American interests, values, civil connectedness, knowledge and ability to self-govern.
International news, events, and actions that impact upon American interests at home and abroad.
Decision making theory and practice in government, commerce, finance and family life.
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Newsroom Magazine has been conformed to the evolving news presentation formats, navigation and searching tools, tabbed linking, embedded multimedia and extensible typographical standards for desktop and mobile display systems. These changes have substantially altered our front page, side panel policy, navigation systems and mobile device browser compliance.
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Online News Standards And Mobile Device Formatting
Some of you may have noticed recent changes in NM layout and cosmetics. They are meant to move the publication from 20th century ideas to 21st century realities: Today’s newspaper look and feel, and fully-extensible formatting, imaging, audio and video integration. Our cosmetic systems have been redesigned to support browser preferred typography for mobile devices, high resolution fonts, high definition display platforms and tomorrow’s ultra high definition displays.
What’s Very Old Is New Again
The era of print news standards that endured for nearly two centuries proved incompatible with electronic media. The new era, which has been in competitive development for nearly two decades, has begun for online content points of presence — especially news publishing sites including Newsroom Magazine.
Just as the old DOS operating system is obsolete, so too are old notions about pixels and even font descriptions.
Until now we’ve lived in a single font definition where a letter is defined exactly in terms of its detail and size. But the NM display you see today accommodates all the prior character definitions as well as those on a high resolution iPhone device.
Gone are letters defined by 7×7 or 9×9 pixel models. Today’s NM can work with 128×128, or even 4096×4096 pixel character definitions which will make our text sharper and clearer.
High Definition Typography
Newsroom Magazine has been conformed to the evolving news presentation formats, navigation and searching tools, tabbed linking, embedded multimedia and extensible typographical standards for desktop and mobile display systems. These changes have substantially altered our front page, side panel policy, navigation systems and mobile device browser compliance.
The front page changes are most obvious, while the shift from a defined format system based on 20th century limits on screen aspect ratios, pixel definition ( was then fixed but is now variable ), and vastly expanded browser differentiation concepts is immensely challenging.
The NM look and feel today is far different from what existed during our first six years — although it has been implemented to make most of our content look very much like what was in place before.
Technological Background
Our new formatting facilities ( called CSS ) are suggestions to the receiving device where the prior formatting facilities were more akin to an order. The new system is meant to make our presentation similar on every browser, mobile device, TV screen, no matter if the screen is palm sized, or movie theater quality.
Where once our formatting systems ordered the user’s browser to display a line of text in a specific font, we now offer a list of several suitable fonts ( known as font families ) from which the user’s device and browser can decide which is best for the user. This takes some getting used to by the publishing community, while making possible a more readable presentation on the vast array of viewing devices in use today, and tomorrow.
You Are The Judge
Effective April 1st, NM moved into a browser defined higher definition display system. Pixels are out and EMs are in. An EM is a definition of character size relative to what the receiving device and its browser wants — not what we think it ought to be.
As a result, looking at the same NM article in different browsers will usually display two similar, but not identical pages. Same for variations in receiving device size, screen resolution, mobile unit browser, and even language.
Take a look at what we’ve done– and share your thoughts with us.