Josh Marshall: Future of TPM #1: "As a reader, here is wh...

Josh Marshall: Future of TPM #1: "As a reader, here is what I would and do want: if there���s a new story from Alice Ollstein on one of the various family separation immigration court cases, it would be helpful to have the recent stories there too and perhaps a quick explanation of how they fit together...

...If there���s a big story that explains the details or core issues of that court case, a link to that would also be handy. Say there���s a big new development on the Russia front, or some new thing about yet some new contact between Russian intelligence officers and a GOP bigwig. That���s great. But I���d like to be able to look in one place to see not just that one story but a broader read of where whole Russia story is today; or a link to the latest Weekly Primer on Trump/Russia or a selection recent stories to place the new development in the story progression.

On this front we have been admittedly a bit behind. But it���s particularly important for us because following stories through iterative coverage is the heart of what we do.

We won���t necessarily have all of this on day one. What our small but resourceful tech and design time has now spent many months working on is a new publishing system for the front page of the site which will give our team the tools to do this. So there will be a lot of experimentation in just how we use these tools, what seems to work and what doesn���t. But it will make it possible to do things we���ve wanted to do for a very long time but have not been able to do within the publishing tools we have available...

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