UK: The Independent expected to phase out broadsheet format/Times expected to keep dual formats

Posted by Ruth Bayliss on May 4, 2004 at 12:39 PM

According to Claire Cozens at The Guardian "The Independent is hoping to axe its broadsheet edition by the end of next month after regional trials of selling only the tabloid edition proved a success." There is a different attitude at the Times newspaper, Owen Gibson at The Guardian writes that the newspaper wants to keep both a tabloid and broadsheet sized version. According to the article "Times editor Robert Thomson insisted today there was "no reason" why the newspaper could not go on producing dual broadsheet and tabloid editions indefinitely. Owen Gibson writes "while the tabloid Independent has been an unqualified success, reviving the paper's moribund circulation, the case for the cut-down version of the Times is less clear cut. Fewer of its readers have switched to the smaller size and while its decline in circulation has been halted, the rise has been nowhere near as dramatic as its rival."

Source: The Guardian (article by Claire Cozens) The Guardian (article by Owen Gibson)

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