Last week, we launched a new Mongabay experience.
The design changes reflect how Mongabay has evolved in the seven years since our last redesign: Chiefly, our expanding diversity of story formats, from articles to videos to podcasts.
The new design provides audiences with Mongabay stories in the way they prefer to receive and engage with them. That’s why this step is focused on introducing a variety of content types to encourage people to read, skim, watch, and listen.
We also have new tools to help audiences find the connections between stories and locate the specific content they want through expanded search and feed functionality.
The new design also gives us much more flexibility in how we present stories, including visually rich pieces supported by Mongabay Data Studio, our emerging data journalism initiative. Indeed, the new design is a project under Mongabay Data Studio.
For now, the new design applies only to our Global English site. We will be rolling it out to other Mongabay properties in the coming months.
I’d like to recognize Willie Shubert for leading this development effort over the past year. His vision and hard work have been critical to its success. I also thank Martin Krasilnikov and the team at Vizzuality for their support.
The redesign is just one of several initiatives in the pipeline that should expand Mongabay‘s ability to deliver news and inspiration from nature’s frontline in more places, languages, and formats in the near future.
