Emerson College Student Paper Completes a Fully Responsive, Mobile-Friendly Redesign

Posted: 4/11/2012  |  By: Andrew Phelps | Nieman Journalism Lab

The Berkeley Beacon, Emerson College’s 65-year-old independent student newspaper, mirrors a lot of professional newspapers: Its funding is in jeopardy; editors are (happily) overworked; the editorial board pisses off people in power.

But the Beacon is ahead of most professional media in another respect: Its new HTML5 website is responsive — meaning the same code gets reflowed into new shapes depending on the size of the reading device.