More on Tribune's redesign

You think that's bad? T-minus six days until you see what the braniacs in Hartford came up with.

 

Tribune has a series of videos up on its site detailing what's going on. In the video, the front "A" section is about 40 pages on the prototype.

Like I said, I'm gonna hold judgment til I see the finished product. I'm not sold on it, but I liked a few of the prototypes.

 

Giant graphics-photos and one or two stories on a section front do not inspire me to buy or read.

If the Sun-Times trumpeted the departure of Eddie Munster so heartily, I wonder if it would tell readers on A-1 "Hey, we have more pages, more information and less glitz. Call now!"

 

Anything you'd like to share? I'd looooove to see what the Courant will look like.

 

This probably has been mentioned, but the Sun-Sentinel redesign is a mess, too. Big graphics that have little meaning and huge reefers to not-very-important stories.

But it's bold!

 

The truth about redesigns: None has attracted a great deal of readers, and none will cause readers to leave at any faster of a pace than they're leaving now. This has been true since the first "redesign consultant" hung out a shingle in the mid-'90s.

 

Let's just say that something that belongs on the top of the newspaper is now stripped down the left side of the newspaper.

 

Gross.

 

Figured I'd bump this back up to the top... today's Trib has an eight-page guide to the new paper inside. It will NOT be three sections every day. From what I saw, it's four on Mondays and Tuesdays, five on Wednesdays... expanded on Thursdays and Fridays... Saturday still has the books and auto sections and then Sunday is the same. Perspective is NOT being cut.

I'm sorry I don't have a link to this new section... may be more details at chicagotribune.com.

 

The classified section is the fourth section Mon-Tue, and fifth (etc.) later in the week. Classified wasn't considered in Zell's 50-50 ratio, so the real ratio falls in favor of ads. Of course, that was true of the Saturday paper, fat with car ads, for decades.
On Sunday, "Smart" replaces "Q." For this, they burn the village?

 

Your 75 cents buys a six-page sports section in today's edition.

 

That's OK. Sports isn't very big in Chicago. :