US: NYT launched reduced width
The transition to reduced width was, by all accounts, smooth. “You can tell as you page through that a lot of thorough attention has been paid to all the small details that make The Times, well, The Times,” writes the Society for News Design blog.
“The truth is, a smaller print paper does not have the stark impact on coverage that it would have 10 or 15 years ago, simply because the limitless Web will carry all the news, and more, from the newsprint edition,” writes Joe Strupp for E&P.
As more and more broadsheets or major newspapers reduce their print format, it’s certainly becoming easier to envision a time when most of the news will be online.
And that certainly wouldn’t contradict the Times’ classic slogan, “All The News That Fits.”
Source: SND blog – Editor & Publisher through IFRA Executive News Service
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