Welcome to your CBC, Hamilton.It's been a long time coming, and we hope you're as excited and delighted by this new service as we are to be part of your community. This is a first for the CBC - a fully digital station that will deliver the best of the CBC, and the most up-to-date news coverage, right to your desktop, your tablet or your handheld device using the most sophisticated tools and methods available (See more on our...
Roger Gillespie (left), and Paul Wilson. (Eric Foss/CBC).One of the new frontiers we will bring you at CBC Hamilton is curation. Early every morning we will comb through the digital world to bring you the best of Hamilton's bloggers and Tweeters. So we will flag for you beautiful photography, strong commentary, video from around the city, the latest from the city's local sports groups and business, just to name a few. We will bring you the best of the Hamilton...
When you first visit CBC.ca/Hamilton, you won't fail to notice our map right at the top of the homepage. This service is all about your city and your neighbourhood, so we wanted to make it easy for you to navigate around Hamilton and the stories it generates using geography that's familiar to you. Here are a few tips to help you find the content most relevant to you on the map, and perhaps discover a few new things about Hamilton...
There have been many "firsts" for CBC in the development of the Hamilton digital service, among them the use of a technique known as "Responsive Design". It is mainly used to create a web property that can resize and rearrange its content on the fly, depending on the capabilities of the device that is accessing the site. It means that users of CBC Hamilton get a consistent experience, regardless of whether they're using their desktop or smartphone to access the...
Jennifer McGuire, CBC News editor-in-chief, visited the new CBC Hamilton office on Friday. In the front row, left to right, are reporter Julia Chapman, McGuire and reporter Samantha Craggs. In the back row, left to right, are researcher Adam Carter, video journalist Jessica Young, executive producer Roger Gillespie and contributor Paul Wilson. The office is still in the beginning stages. There are cardboard boxes near the front door and a ladder near the back. The front windows are still covered...
