Chronicle set to launch new website this week

The Chronicle is set to launch its new website this week. Here’s everything you need to know about the move.

Your first look at The Chronicle's new website.

THE Chronicle is launching a brand new website on Thursday to give our valued subscribers a faster, cleaner and more enhanced user experience.

The Chronicle's new look and feel has been designed after extensive research and feedback from News' subscribers across the country.

There will be even more features added in coming months.

The audience-first approach has resulted in an easier to use navigation to find key local stories, noticeably quicker loading times for the home page and article pages, and less distractions getting in the way of the stories that matter. Our subscribers will get their cleanest experience yet.

As we make the change to our new site, there's a few things to keep in mind.

There will be no interruption to your online news access over this period, you'll be able to read and access all articles on The Chronicle site during the upgrade.

However, your My Profile will be temporarily unavailable across September 30 and October 1 while the site upgrades are taking place.

If you need to make any changes to your newsletters or account preferences, please complete these as soon as possible so we can process these changes before the upgrade.

From October 1, you'll need to log in to the new website using your email address and password.

If you have set up your account with a different News Corp publication, such as The Courier-Mail, you'll need to use the password linked to this account when logging in The Chronicle after October 1st.

If you use a Facebook account to authenticate, you will need to first login using your email address and password details and then add your Facebook account back in.

From 1st October, if you're having trouble logging in:

• Forgot Password? Simply go to thechronicle.com.au, locate the 'Login' button in the top right-hand corner of your screen & click on 'Forgot your password'
• Forgot your email address? Call 1300 MY NEWS (1300 696 397). We are open Monday to Friday 7:30am to 6:00pm and 7:00am - 11:30am AEST on both Saturday & Sunday.

 

 

As part of the changes, we will be discontinuing our current app. Instead, we will provide a better experience on the mobile device version of our website.

As you would expect, the upgraded site will give most prominence to local news, business, courts and crime, council, development and sport stories, videos and photo galleries.

For the first time, you will have greater access to all of News' premium Queensland, national and world news, as well as lifestyle, entertainment, and national and international sports news.

The Chronicle has a rich history in serving Toowoomba, the Lockyer Valley and Darling Downs. It is the product of the incorporation of two of Queensland's oldest newspapers.

The Darling Downs Gazette, founded at Drayton by Sydney Arthur Lyon, began publication in a wooden shanty on June 10, 1858. It began as a weekly, moved to the burgeoning town of Toowoomba until merging with The Chronicle in 1922.

The Chronicle has the biggest team of journalists in the region, ensuring it remains the dominant source of breaking news, council, courts, crime, development, education and sports reporting as well as what's on and community happenings.

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