It is a truism that EVERYBODY hates his or her
newspaper to change, but it's also a fact of the
newspaper business that those newspapers have to
evolve -- especially now with the internet around.
The revamped Strib has a bigger font, which means an
article's words can't take up as much space (short
attention spans and/or busy people) and its design
attempts to mimic a web surfing experience. It's an
obvious play to the web that newspapers pretty much
are drawn to. Minneapolis-based One Nation News, for
instance, has placed much of its classified
advertising on the web through a weekly eblast that
goes out to 10,000 subscribers.
The Star Tribune, which relies much more heavily on
classifieds than other print publications in the area,
has to do something (re-design, do more web-based
things) to maintain its hefty revenue stream.
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