You will have seen issues look a bit of completely different when visiting ProPublica’s web site not too long ago or encountering our work on different platforms, corresponding to Apple Information or Instagram. We’ve up to date our emblem and our typefaces, and we made enhancements to the design and performance of our homepage and the way we current our work. We needed to take a second to inform you what’s modified and why.
The most important adjustments you’ll discover on our homepage are structural. Lots of our investigations include supporting materials, together with visible explainers, particulars on our methodology or methods to ship us suggestions. Our new design permits us to package deal these items collectively, so it’s simpler so that you can discover the total image. We’re additionally showcasing extra of our greatest investigations from the archives so readers have an opportunity to find reporting they might have missed.
We’ve additionally made enhancements to the presentation of articles, together with extra particulars about our journalists and companions, together with their photographs and how one can contact them securely if you wish to contribute to our journalism. Lots of our articles can be found in different languages or might be listened to with audio narration. These choices are actually extra distinguished, however we’re additionally working to maintain the concentrate on what issues most: our reporting and visible storytelling.
ProPublica’s emblem and typefaces are new too. We predict they’re bolder and cleaner, whereas sustaining a connection to the classicism of our title, and do a greater job touring throughout the various screens the place you’ll find our work. Our earlier visible id was constructed for a special period, it launched earlier than cell phones and social media had been ubiquitous, and it was due for an replace.
What hasn’t modified: our dedication to investigative reporting within the public curiosity, our independence and the rigor we deliver to each story.
Extra adjustments will roll out over the approaching months. We hope you want what you see, and, as at all times, in case you have ideas, we need to hear them. Please electronic mail [email protected] for those who discover any bugs or have ideas for what else we are able to do.
Many due to those that helped conceive this work, together with our companions at Gretel and so lots of our colleagues right here, particularly our design group, led by Allen Tan with Sophie Greenspan and Jeff Frankl.
