Wall Street Journal lops off a column or two
WSJ announced its redesign today by famous newspaper designer Mario Garcia.
Source: The New York Times
Here’s Newsdesigner.com:
The move to a 12-inch-wide front page brings the Journal in line with most American broadsheets (except The New York Times, which makes the switch next August) and is expected to save Dow Jones $18 million a year.
Executives and advertisers are happy, but some Journal journalists aren’t. “Lopping a column off the paper is not a quality move,” reporter E. S. Browning told The New York Times. “It will be harder to do long-form journalism when there is less space on Page One.” Editors say to compensate for the lost space, the number of pages will be increased, some statistical information will be cut, and the paper will be more tightly edited.
Via Newsdesigner.com and NYT.
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