Idaho Statesman launches Edition — an interactive news product designed for digital

Chadd Cripe
·2 min read

Reading the Idaho Statesman on an electronic device is about to become more interactive.

On Wednesday, we launch Edition — a new eEdition that allows us to highlight all the latest news, regardless of traditional print deadlines; offers our readers interactive features like puzzles and games; and organizes the content in a newspaper-like way that’s easy to navigate.

Edition will adapt to your screen, whether you’re using a computer, tablet or mobile phone, and it can be downloaded for offline reading. Need to print a crossword so two of you can test your wits? You can do that, too.

Here are the highlights of Edition, which can be accessed from the top of IdahoStatesman.com, in our apps or through a daily email reminder.

▪ The front page will feature the biggest story of the day and links to several other top stories.

▪ Inside pages will provide a display of headlines for you to select what you want to read next; no more digging through page after page searching for what you want. Just click on the story you’d like to read, and swipe to the next page to keep going.

▪ Links to past stories or source material will work; just click on them to dig deeper into the topic.

▪ You can flip through all the photos associated with a story.

▪ The dozens of stories of additional national news and opinion will still be there, but organized in a more efficient way that will make them easier to navigate.

▪ And Edition has interactive puzzles, so you don’t have to use pen and paper (though you still can if you want). Solve the puzzle right on the screen.

▪ Looking for the replica of our print newspaper on Wednesdays, Fridays and Sundays? That will still be there, too.

We hope you enjoy this latest innovation; it’s truly a digital edition designed to be a digital product, a big step forward for us.

If you have questions or concerns, you can join my Coffee with the Editor event from 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. Wednesday, April 24, at Caffe D’arte in the Warehouse Food Hall (370 S. 8th St. in Boise).