New, Free Church News Site

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I don’t know how new this is, but it appears that the Church News site is now freely accessible.  From what I can tell you are no longer required to be a subscriber via mail or the Deseret News.

Even more welcome is a complete redesign of Church News which makes navigation much, much easier.  The site is tagged “Beta” but it’s my impression that it must be a “Google beta” as it appears to work pretty well (although a RSS feed would be nice).  I just stumbled across it but believe it is fairly new as well.  

If you are nostalgic for the old site, you can still access it at http://www.ldschurchnews.com/cn/  It appears to be freely accessible as well.

It’s a very welcome development but it makes me wonder: are official/church-owned news sources too fractured? Each may have a different purpose and/or audience, but it can be hard to keep up. By my count we have:

1. Newsroom
2. Around the Church
3. Church News
4. LDS Newsline
5. Mormon Times

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