Slate’s Jack Shafer says with the expanded summaries on A2/A3, “Now the newspaper reads as if it begins with three speed bumps.” Tom Bodkin, assistant managing editor and design director at the Times, defends the new section: “The criticism I’ve heard is, ‘We’ve got to plow through four pages until we get to the real news?’ You know, plowing through four pages? I feel like I’d like to put together a little video that shows you how to turn two pages.”
- Newspaper Death Watch
Advertising Age has launched the first in a series of articles on the future (or non-future) of newspapers from the perspective of advertisers, along with a poll asking readers to guess the lifespan of newsprint.
- South African paper rethinks page numbers
“To commemorate World AIDS day on December 1st the South African newspaper Cape Argus used their page numbers on the top of every page of the newspaper to educate the public on statistics relating to the AIDS pandemic in South Africa. All the statistics were collected from UNICEF and the South African Department of Health.” (via osocio.org and bestadsontv)
Discuss:
Submit a comment