“TheHilltopOnline.com will provide a more interactive news experience,”
Mann said. “Through photo slideshows, videos, polls, podcasts, social
networking and breaking news, we will provide The Hilltop audience with
a news experience that is more compelling and engaging.
The rebrand of the site will make the publication more reader-friendly
and easier to navigate, Mann said. New organization and search tools will
allow readers to find the information that is relevant to them. The mobile
website, also TheHilltopOnline.com, will allow readers to access the news
when they want, where they want through cell phones.
The Hilltop will reduce its weekly print schedule in order to increase
its efforts online, Mann said. The paper will print on Mondays and Thursdays.
Special Issues will be published once a month on Wednesdays.
The Hilltop was founded Jan. 22, 1924, by student Zora Neale Hurston,
a Harlem Renaissance novelist and anthropologist considered one of the
pre-eminent writers of 20th Century African-American literature, and student
Eugene King. The publication was originally as a small monthly publication
for the discussion of registration follies and campus events.
Today, the publication, “The Student Voice of Howard University,”
is distributed at nearly 40 locations throughout the Howard University
campus with over 7,000 readers. |
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