Designs & Formats

Four newspapers have been crowned "World's Best Designed" by a panel of judges at the 28th annual The Best of Newspaper Design Creative Competition of the Society for News Design (SND). The winners are: Äripev (Tallinn, Estonia); El Economista (Madrid, Spain); Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung (Frankfurt, Germany); and Politiken (Copenhagen, Denmark) Meeting at Syracuse University in New York...

He was known as the father of modern newspaper design. He helped redesign thousands of newspapers, wrote 27 journalism books and won numerous awards. But toward the end of his life, Edmund Arnold took simple pleasure in creating birthday cards for his fellow residents of Brandon Oaks Retirement Community. Arnold died Friday at Lewis-Gale Medical Center. He was 93. Arnold began his newspaper career...

Analysts warned last night that there could be a "bloodbath" in the London newspaper market after the announcement that another free daily would muscle in on a crowded market next month. Associated Newspapers said it would start a free afternoon paper, London Lite, in September and scrap its Standard Lite freesheet. The new title would go head-to-head with News International's forthcoming free...

The broadsheet newspaper is as American as Patrick Henry's great speech and Irving Berlin's songs, and in fact going back into history, the width of the newpaper page was even broader. But how Americans partake of their information is changing, led by the internet, and one effect is that the traditional broadsheet is being trimmed and in many places replaced entirely by the smaller tabloid format...

LONDON, Aug. 6 — When Metro International, a publisher of free newspapers, moved into France in 2002, established competitors cried foul, and some of their workers took to the streets. Four years later, Metro and other free papers are fixtures of the French cityscape, accounting for one in five papers read in France, and publishers of paid-for dailies are considering free editions of their own...

LONDON: When Metro International, a publisher of free newspapers, moved into France in 2002, established competitors cried foul, and some of their workers took to the streets. Four years later, Metro and other freesheets are fixtures of the French cityscape, accounting for one in five papers read in France, and publishers of paid-for dailies are considering free editions of their own. The about...

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Dow Jones and Co. Inc. (DJ.N: Quote, Profile, Research) plans to "retool" its Wall Street Journal Asian and European newspaper editions after reader complaints about their new tabloid formats, Chief Executive Officer Richard Zannino said on Wednesday. Zannino, speaking at the Bank of America Media Telecommunications and Entertainment conference, said some readers feel "there...

NEW HAVEN, Conn. --Three central Connecticut newspapers will switch to a tabloid format in May as their parent company, Journal Register Co., tries to boost advertising revenue and reverse circulation losses. The Herald of New Britain, The Bristol Press and The Middletown Press announced the change in Wednesday's newspapers, saying the new editions will be easier to read and more attractive to...

The Guardian and Rzeczpospolita have been named the World's Best-Designed Newspapers at the 27th annual The Best of Newspaper Design Creative Competition of the Society for News Design (SND). Meeting at Syracuse University in New York, five judges reviewed 389 newspapers from 44 countries to decide the 2005 winners. "Many newspapers achieved a high standard of overall design, photography and...

HERE’S a quiz. Which UK newspaper printed a headline last week about John Prescott, the deputy prime minister, using yellow type on a lurid green background? Which newspaper asked on its front page: Is Oprah really a Zulu? And which had Catwalk Cattiness billed as its most enticing item? Anyone nominating the Sun, the Daily Mirror, or the Daily Star should remain in class and pay attention. The...