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Regional journalHousing desk / Transit desk / Waterfront redevelopment
Regional journal

News-site information architecture with all the messy archive habits left in.

This site simulates the way small-to-mid regional publishers keep article pages, topic pages, and newsletter signup surfaces intertwined long after the first launch.

3 deskshousing, transit, waterfront
2 archive modestopics and dated story URLs
1 omissionthe feature article is missing a canonical
Harborline Journal

Metro reporting, policy explainers, and a noisy topic archive.

Metro desk edition

What feels real here

The homepage points to a topic hub, a dated feature article, and a newsletter archive in ways that reuse headlines and blur taxonomy boundaries.

It is intentionally not a perfect newsroom. Archive and signup modules leak into each other the way they do on understaffed editorial properties.

Topic hub

Dense internal linking and archive pagination links that keep feeding the crawler.
Open page

Feature story

A missing canonical on the main article and duplicated CTA language in the sidebar.
Open page

Newsletter archive

Signup prompts and campaign-query links embedded in a long-lived archive page.
Open page