{"id":5883,"date":"2014-12-05T08:00:34","date_gmt":"2014-12-05T14:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.robertfeder.com\/?p=5883"},"modified":"2014-12-05T08:05:59","modified_gmt":"2014-12-05T14:05:59","slug":"crains-new-website-holds-open-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/2014\/12\/05\/crains-new-website-holds-open-house\/","title":{"rendered":"Crain\u2019s new website holds \u2018open house\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Crain's\"<\/a><\/a>The folks at Crain\u2019s Chicago Business<\/a> unveiled a beautifully redesigned website <\/a>this week \u2014 and now they want everyone to see it.<\/p>\n

So they\u2019re holding an \u201copen house\u201d on the site, dropping their usually strict paywall and inviting non-subscribers to sample everything online for one week (including the just-released \u201c40 under 40\u201d <\/a>list for 2014). The free peek runs through December 12 at chicagobusiness.com.<\/a><\/p>\n

The new streamlined look is smart, clean and easy to navigate. It works easily on any device.<\/p>\n

\"Frank<\/a>

Frank Sennett<\/p><\/div>\n

The only disappointment is the absence of Crain\u2019s top columnists from the home page. Having to click multiple times to locate Greg Hinz or Rich Miller under \u201cpolitics\u201d or Shia Kapos under \u201clifestyle & dining\u201d seems needlessly cumbersome. Worse yet are the snubs to Danny Ecker and John Pletz. Now you have to hunt for their columns under \u201csports\u201d and \u201ctechnology,\u201d respectively. Their readers deserve better.<\/p>\n

But otherwise, it's a beauty.<\/p>\n

The rollout of the new website coincides with the promotion of Frank Sennett to director of digital and custom media. Sennett, former president and editor-in-chief of Time Out Chicago,<\/a> joined Crain\u2019s last January as director of digital strategy.<\/p>\n

One other change longtime readers may notice: Crain\u2019s no longer includes those quaint courtesy titles on second reference to subjects in its stories. So it\u2019s no more \u201cMr. Smith\u201d or \u201cMs. Jones.\u201d Now it\u2019s just plain \u201cSmith\u201d and \u201cJones.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The folks at Crain\u2019s Chicago Business unveiled a beautifully redesigned website this week \u2014 and now they want everyone to see it. So they\u2019re holding an \u201copen house\u201d on the site, dropping their usually strict paywall and inviting non-subscribers to sample everything online for one week (including the just-released \u201c40 under 40\u201d list for 2014).... Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5883"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5883"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5883\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5888,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5883\/revisions\/5888"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5883"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5883"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}