“They’re making the newspaper smaller at the same time that the readers’ eyes are getting worse.”
Why don’t newspapers switch to large print summaries of the previous day’s news?
“They’re making the newspaper smaller at the same time that the readers’ eyes are getting worse.”
Why don’t newspapers switch to large print summaries of the previous day’s news?
Isn’t that pretty much what they do now?
When I bring in the Sentinel in the morning, I (when I have time to peruse it) notice all the articles are recaps of the previous days’ top stories I usually already know about from the web that previous day. But newspapers seem to have a better feel for encapsulating the stories than blogs and other online news services do – less rambling, more focused. Of course, limited space forces one to be a better writer so that’s not surprising. I also always find a couple of surprises that I didn’t see the day before, nor likely would have even if I’d been looking.
I don’t think newspapers need to change at all, really. By the time we get them, the news itself is old so we already know the vital stats – it’s the rest of the info that’s difficult to deliver online that keeps newspapers valuable.