I’ve been hearing good things about John Solomon ever since he took over as editor of the Washington Times in January. Soon we’ll begin to see the fruits of his labor with a new website and redesigned print edition. The paper has posted a slideshow outlining the changes to the website and print edition.

For a more detailed explanation, check out the video below featuring Washington Times President Tom McDevitt and Solomon explaining some of the biggest changes readers will see. My favorite has to be the new homepage feature called the “Cube,” which is something I’d actually like to copy for Heritage.org. The Sunday edition of the paper is also a dramatic improvement.

Here’s a complete list of changes, courtesy of Fishbowl DC.

News coverage, analysis and opinion from the nation’s capital and throughout the world that are not available elsewhere

Multimedia presentations of the news through print, video and audio

90 minutes of fresh new video every day

Original video and audio programming produced daily in The Washington Times broadcast studio

A website innovation, called the ‘Cube,’ presents a new way to navigate the news vertically by themes, in addition to traditional horizontal navigation by topics such as national, world, metro, entertainment.

Vertical navigation with the Cube enables readers to dive deeper into stories

400,000 horizontal entry points, or ‘news themes,’ into the web site

Inside the Story and Inside the Beltway, new one-hour internet radio programs broadcast on wsRadio and also at washingtontimes.com

Mobile platform distribution to a news consumer’s computer, video player

Social networking opportunity for readers to congregate around the news and interact with one another

Communities built around topics and hosted by ‘mayors’ who moderate the debate each day, with related sub-communities called neighborhoods

The ability to ‘Ask a Question’ and receive answers from our extensive archive of news and information as well as from all others participating in the washingtontimes.com interactive experience

Hat Tip: Fishbowl DC, Ben Domenech