When I visit PressDemocrat.com, I go for one thing: Sonoma County news. Someone in Mendocino County might visit the site for Mendo County news, which is great, but not the reason I visit. Ok, with that said, how do I locate Sonoma County news on PressDemocrat.com. Ahh… herein lies the problem. Local news granularity is sorely missing on the site.
When scrolling down PressDemocrat.com’s frontpage, you won’t find sections for “Santa Rosa news” or “Windsor news”:
When you go to the “Local” page under “News”, you won’t find sections for “Santa Rosa news” or “Windsor news” either. You will find a section for Petaluma news, but that’s because its a feed for Petaluma360 one of PressDemocrat.com’s other sites:
I can’t wait until PressDemocrat.com adds clear local news granularity to the site. I’d love to visit the homepage and find sections for “Santa Rosa news” or “Windsor news”. I’d like it even more if Northern California news got the above-the-fold treatment over national news. I’d like it even even even more if Santa Rosa news, Windsor news, etc, got their own pages.
Note: I’m strictly talking about PressDemocrat.com, not the print edition. The Make PressDemocrat.com Better conversation I’m starting has nothing to do with the excellent print edition. They are completely different worlds.