Welcome TPM Readers!
As you can see we’re making a few changes at TPM. So let me take a moment to explain what we’re doing and why. TPM started back in November 2000 as one little white text column on a field of navy blue. Since then it’s slowly expanded outward with new content and features. But this is our biggest revamp to date.
The premise is simple. Over the last two years, TPM has evolved from a single blog to a network of sites with an increased focus on news and original reporting. With our new design we’re expanding our commitment to original reporting while also complementing our own coverage with breaking news stories from the Associated Press and other wire services.
That brings us to a fundamental change in the design of the site. As we’ve grown and had more and more original reporting we wanted to bring to you, more and more posts on the TPM blog have been links to reports we’ve published at TPMmuckraker, Election Central and TPMCafe. That’s made the blog not just a blog but also a portal to access the rest of our content. But while that’s worked fine, it’s not ideal. It makes it hard to see at a glance what’s new at TPM and also changed the nature of the blog itself.
In our new design we’ve created a full news section that will keep you up to date through the day on our latest news stories. And if we don’t have it, we’ll have links to whoever does. Come to the site anytime during the day and we’ll have the very latest news.
And of course right here I’ll be blogging as usual — and even getting back to the blogging I’ve somewhat gotten away from in the last couple years.
Update: For more details on the new design, check out today’s episode of TPMtv …
