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On the left, the Trib's front page from June 14, 2008 (via). On the right, today's Orlando Sentinel, which may be what the Trib will look like in the next few months.
Changes are afoot at the Tribune, and not just in staffing. Newly installed editor Gerould Kern is overseeing a complete redesign, according to Crain's. A new look has been in the works for a while, but it's moving ahead faster than scheduled for Saturday editions.
A version under consideration devotes the paper's front section to consumer-oriented and entertainment features. Local, national, international and business news is consolidated in the second section. Weather leads the third section, which also includes comics and classifieds, while the sports section is converted to a tabloid format.It's not clear how many of these changes will make it into the final version of the prototype, which a spokesman calls a "work in progress." But aspects of the prototype that prove popular with readers are likely to find their way into a full-scale redesign of all editions of the paper, which Tribune expects to debut by September.
The Orlando Sentinel, one of the Trib company's smaller papers, launched a redesign in June to mixed reviews. [Crain's]
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we really don't need two sun-times in this town.
Local, national, international and business news is consolidated in the second section.
Good. Because I want as little local focus as possible and lots of goo-gad nonsense entertainment bulltwaddle up front.
Because Miley Cyrus is going to do something about the tanking economy, you just wait and see.
The modern American newspaper will only survive by giving readers something they cannot get elsewhere, in-depth, local coverage. A city of nearly 4 million, and we're going to get a bunch of AP wire stories that anyone with an internet connection could read anywhere.
Sam Zell and his merry band of idiots are going to ruin the only actual newspaper in the city.
To Whom It May Concern:
If I wanted to receive USA Today, I would already have done so. Thank you.
- Tribune Subscriber
What an eyesore ... doesn't anyone actually study design any more?
What an eyesore ... doesn't anyone actually study design any more?
Yes. And they promptly get ignored when Sam Zell starts yelling about how "great" USA Today looks.
The tapes of that monkey screaming at professionals and calling journalists "overhead" made me ill.
I hope the devious old spider just pops his clogs before he lays waste to the Tribune completely.
The audio of Zell's tantrums:
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=89446846
comments 1-5: YES! god.
although, as i've said a couple of times today ... obama looks positively BAD ASS on the front page* of the sun-times today. it's the first time i've enjoyed a sun-times front page maybe ever.
*i've written that a couple of times, and every time i start to write "cover." cause it's pretty much a magazine at this point.
There was an interesting article in the Reader about the redesign
http://www.chicagoreader.com/features/stories/hottype/080710/
Worth nothing: each paper has free reign in their redesign. So just because the Sentinel changed their look to this dosent mean the Tribune will. Of course thats little comfort.
The most troubling aspect about the mention of USA Today is that it's America's favorite high school newspaper. Or, like a national version of the Red Eye...
you guys are such newspaper snobs. not everyone enjoys the stuffiness of traditional papers. maybe its a reflection on the changing taste in media in society, but nothing wrong with reading a visually-engaging, concise newspaper. it's not like they're printing stories about alien babies or elvis sightings.
The most troubling aspect about the mention of USA Today is that it's America's favorite high school newspaper
My English teacher in high school was forced to 'incorporate USA today into his lesson plan' by the school admin.
He would pass out the papers, let them sit for a moment, then have us pass them up. We used them for making paper mache replicas of the Globe Theater as well. Nice and sticky.
Great. You know, I always like to pick up a goofy-ass local newspaper whenever I visit some small podunk hick town in the middle of nowhere. Now I won't have to. I can just get a Trib!
For me, there's too much going on visually in the Orlando Sentinel example.
I do, however, prefer the tabloid-sized newspapers, because I can manage reading them on the El better. They're not as large. But I won't read the Sun-Times or the RedEye just because their a tabloid-sized newspaper. Quality trumps size. ('Tis not the size of thy worm; 'tis how thy wiggles it.)
And I do love me some good comics. The Trib certainly lacks in that department.
did anyone notice wgn morning news' ghastly new graphics this morning?
Isn't anyone curious about the FREE LEGAL MUSIC DOWNLOADS in the Sentinel?
Well, there's always the New York Times.
Thank God. I hate it when I have to dig through all those news stories to find my ads and gossip.
@danielbbailey: Don't you mean there's ONLY The New York Times?
Great! I wish more things look like a rainbow's vomit combined with the cuttingest-of-edge clip-art!
Didn't they just redesign the Tribune last year?
Also, it seems to me there are a lot more editing mistakes in the paper recently. (The dreaded it's for its, for example.) I seem to spot one at least every few days, and that's just in the stories I read. Admittedly, I don't know how many people edit the newspaper, or how they do it, but I hope they do more than run it through a spellchecker.
the orlando sentinel looks like a webpage. Making your newspaper look like the internet isn't going to bring back any readers you've already lost to the web. Look at the wall street journal. Haven't changed their layout in like a thousand years, and its still readable and has high circulation.