Top level news categories include: earth; space; tech; animals, dinosaurs; archeology; history; and human. A collection of nearly 400 videos is also a part of the site.
Discovery News also have a href=”http://twitter.com/Discovery_News”>Twitter feed and Facebook page. One RSS feed is also available. Search results pages include links to stories, relevant video clips, and shopping results, and in some cases material from other Discovery networks. We did notice that for some searches (perhaps because they don’t have enough content) there are a lot of ads on search results pages like this one for noise pollution.
“We’re on a mission to make people smarter about the world around them,” said Miguel Monteverde, the site’s general manager. He has been with Discovery for two years; earlier in his career, he oversaw development of video content for AOL’s Web network.
As mainstream news publications trim their budgets and cut back on coverage of science and technology news, Monteverde said, the new Discovery site will seek to fill that gap. The site’s reporting will also be the central attraction of a new iPhone application launched by the company; priced at 99 cents, the Discovery News software became available at the iTunes store on Monday.
Source: Washington Post
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