The PP Post web site
March 20, 2008
Michel Dauguet, the Phnom Penh Post’s new CEO, spoke to the British Business Association last week. He said the Post’s new Web site will debut sometime next week.
While the number of print readers may be down, Dauguet divulged to his listeners that figures indicate the internet has actually increased the overall quantity of readers across the globe. And this is why, as of next week, the Post is going online. Influenced in design and content by the BBC and the Guardian websites, the Post’s website will deliver breaking news while maintaining a ‘community’ feel by offering community features and services such as a classified section. Encouraged by ‘citizen journalism’ the Post plans to incorporate non-journalists in their news reporting through mediums such as blogs that allow readers to offer opinion and insight into global, regional or local issues.
According to those who have seen it, the new site looks okay. Compared to what the Post has now it’s a phenomenal improvement, although that’s not saying much. The real measure of success, however, will be the content. The Post plans to go daily inside of three months, and the new Web site is an integral part of the strategy — break stories on the Web, develop them in the paper. For Cambodian news junkies that means a legitimate online news source. Finally.
March 21, 2008 at 4:54 am
This monday you will have another alternative: Ka-set, a daily updated information website put together by independent journalists in Khmer and in French will be launched this monday in its test version.
http://www.ka-set.info
March 21, 2008 at 7:26 am
The biggest question about the website is whether they will continue to have two sections: one for free views, and another for paid subscribers. I always thought that was their biggest problem, and why many international visitors won’t go there. If they post everything on their newly revamped website, then readership will soar. and I hope they do that.
March 21, 2008 at 7:36 pm
As I understand it everything will be available for free, at least for a while.
March 22, 2008 at 6:07 pm
The new site can be found at: http://thepppost.com/
March 23, 2008 at 9:31 am
Great tip, Tharum. At least from where I am, the regular phnompenhpost.com web site is unavailable now. I assume that they are installing the new web site there now, and everything is on schedule for a new site come Monday morning.
March 23, 2008 at 10:24 am
[...] early 2008 sees The Phnom Penh Penh’s got a new look. Very casual, simple, and features-rich. It’s claimed that the new redesign Web site is inspired by the look and feel of the BBC and the Guardian [...]