Markup News Inc

Product & technology - the markup started with a comprehensive redesign of the homepage, accompanied by the creation of new cms features to support the structure of the new homepage and make it easy for editors to change it extensively if needed. They made extensive feature updates to their premiere tool blacklight. They utilized summer interns to help manage the workload and the end result is a plethora of new features including the ability to "spoof" site scans from germany, scan as a desktop browser in addition to a mobile browser, bypass cache of already scanned sites, and a host of performance upgrades.

Audience - in conjunction with the launch of their website redesign, the markup continued to grow the overall brand impact. Their work was republished across other news networks 1,223 times and localized by other newsrooms 8 times. Their tools continue to have impact with their audience as well: over 13 million people have used the blacklight tool. They were also recognized by leaders in the industry. They won 18 industry awards, including several from society for news design, sigma, scripps howard, national press club, and the online journalism association.