Chicagoist: Trib Redesign On The Horizon

carapatricia

Thu, 24 Jul 2008 10:58:23 -0600

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.

oz115

Tue, 22 Jul 2008 00:16:23 -0600

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.

clarenceweatherspoon

Mon, 21 Jul 2008 18:34:25 -0600

Great! I wish more things look like a rainbow's vomit combined with the cuttingest-of-edge clip-art!

groggy

Mon, 21 Jul 2008 18:27:10 -0600

@danielbbailey: Don't you mean there's ONLY The New York Times?

Tower18

Mon, 21 Jul 2008 18:15:49 -0600

Thank God. I hate it when I have to dig through all those news stories to find my ads and gossip.

danielbbailey

Mon, 21 Jul 2008 18:08:27 -0600

Well, there's always the New York Times.

happygrl

Mon, 21 Jul 2008 16:56:23 -0600

Isn't anyone curious about the FREE LEGAL MUSIC DOWNLOADS in the Sentinel?

Rachelle Bowden

Mon, 21 Jul 2008 16:32:10 -0600

did anyone notice wgn morning news' ghastly new graphics this morning?

Bekki

Mon, 21 Jul 2008 16:20:47 -0600

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.

ophmarketing

Mon, 21 Jul 2008 15:38:59 -0600

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!

Albanyparkour

Mon, 21 Jul 2008 15:29:16 -0600

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.

peteypants

Mon, 21 Jul 2008 15:27:30 -0600

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.

Marcus Gilmer

Mon, 21 Jul 2008 15:12:04 -0600

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...

via chicago

Mon, 21 Jul 2008 15:09:36 -0600

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.

smussy

Mon, 21 Jul 2008 14:51:58 -0600

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.

Albanyparkour

Mon, 21 Jul 2008 14:44:06 -0600

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

Tankboy

Mon, 21 Jul 2008 14:32:32 -0600

What an eyesore ... doesn't anyone actually study design any more?

magikist

Mon, 21 Jul 2008 14:30:38 -0600

To Whom It May Concern: If I wanted to receive USA Today, I would already have done so. Thank you. - Tribune Subscriber

Albanyparkour

Mon, 21 Jul 2008 14:27:43 -0600

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.

Shannon

Mon, 21 Jul 2008 14:25:13 -0600

we really don't need two sun-times in this town.