Today marks a new digital era for your new-look Leader
Last week The Leader switched to ground-breaking digital-first publishing technology that is also delivering a new look for your local newspaper.
The NewsNow editorial system brings website and newspaper production into the same newsroom process for the first time.
It will allow Leader journalists to publish breaking news immediately at theleader.com.au and prepare exclusive local content for the next print edition.
The NewsNow technology is being rolled out at mastheads in Fairfax Media’s regional, rural and suburban publishing division, Australian Community Media.
Designed to deliver journalism to digital and print audiences more effectively and efficiently, it is already producing more than 70 newspapers and their websites in Victoria, Queensland, southern NSW and South Australia.
Wollongong’s lllawarra Mercury switched to the web-based system in September.
This week, more than 50 years after its humble beginnings, a new-look Leader marks the start of a new era in digital news-gathering and news production in St George and Sutherland Shire.
From hot metal to computers, from black and white to colour, from broadsheet to tabloid, the Leader has always adapted and evolved just as the audiences, advertisers and communities it serves have adapted and evolved.
As part of the latest change, the newspaper has introduced a larger typeface size for body copy designed to make articles easier to read.
Headline fonts will take on a bold new contemporary styling.
Some sections of the newspaper have been redesigned.
Some regular content will have a new home within the paper, with sections colour-coded to help you find your favourite reading.
While the look of the Leader is changing, its editorial mission will not.
Our team of journalists and photographers will use their new tools and skills to tell the local stories audiences had come to expect.
We will still be giving our readers the best variety of local news, sport, commentary and information, with fair-minded, independent journalism that asks the tough questions and sets the news agenda without fear or favour.
