Good followup on the Garcia "fusion" story

(From Editors Weblog)

Jay Rosen on bloggers/Big Media showdown

"They have most of the rest figured out, they believe. But not how to fund the newsroom."
(From PressThink)

New Wall Street Journal Asia to deploy web-style UI techniques

Mario Garcia: "Going compact is very exciting because the readers like it, but the real story here is the fusion of the online and print versions of the newspaper."
The WSJA will deploy lots of devices common on the web (and. from the examples given, not uncommon in print) in a more web-design style. On links to related stories at the end of an article, Garcia had this to say: "I see in the future bibliographies at the end of every reporter's article." This is, I think, the most interesting bit (given my current obsession with footnotes, jumps, and inline referencing).
Now, should such bibliographies continue to evolve (online) after the article has been published?
(From Ifra)

Format change update: Le Figaro

To redeisgn and reduce its width in October.
(From Editor & Publisher)

Vanity Fair piece on Guardian redesign, UK newspapers

Sadly (for an article that lauds the "more accurate and truthful" US media), contains several errors/misjudgements:
"Both The Independent and the London Times have turned to tabloid formats, while the snobbish Guardian is shrinking even smaller". Er, no. We're bigger than a tabloid.
"The paper has been technologically adept, even visionary in an industry that, especially in Britain, temperamentally exists in another age." Hm. I've visited about 10 newspapers in the US and I found them to have a much more "old school" attitude to technology than many of those I know in Britain.
"The 'Berliner' is what people at The Guardian call this new size—not least because the new presses are German-made." There is of course no connection between a century-old standard term for this format and the Guardian's recent choice of press vendor.
But still worth a read.
(From Vanity Fair)

New York Times on Guardian redesign

Actually appears to be more of a compilation of exercpts from articles/interviews in the British media.
(From New York Times)

Passé Note

Have you noticed that wherever you read a blog about the Guardian redesign there's this slightly lame skit about Pass Notes in a comment entry? I wonder who has devoted time to propagating this. They might even be doing it by hand - a scary thought - since the entry number seems to be different here and there. This kind of sendup is a witty idea, although the content - while capturing the tone of that which it lampoons - is forgettable. Makes me miss the column less.

Vin Crosbie on Guardian redesign

"Seeing the first Berliner-format edition of The Guardian of London was a revelation, and – one that yields another clue to the rebuilding of media in the 21st Century." Aw, shucks. Article continues with some excellent, more general stuff about newspaper aesthetics and sizes, and the differing influence of advertising on each side of the Atlantic.
(From Digital Deliverance)

It worked

Thursday's Channel 4 News item on berliner Guardian

Hit the "watch the report" link.
(From Channel4.com)

Brand Republic: all eyes on Guardian berliner move

(From Brand Republic)

What I've been up to

(From Guardian Unlimited)

Press Gazette interviews Alan

(From Press Gazette)

Bruce Chizen: migrating software to Intel Macs "not that easy"

Plus extra snippet here.
(From CNet)

Independent survey: respondents positive about Guardian berliner move

Lies, damned statistics, and surveys. The Indy's report on the Guardian's imminent berliner relaunch opens with "Even optimistis admit the move marks the 184-year-old title's biggest gamble". But in the survey that follows there is little suggestion other than that it will be successful. The reactions of the experts quoted were, in order: positive, positive, positive, positive, positive, positive, neutral ("It could be successful"), positive, positive, negative ("The big difficulty is going to be preventing it looking too much like a magazine. It can easily fall into resembling something British readers do not associate with news."), and positive.
(From The Independent)

Press Gazette on berliner move

(From Press Gazette)

"Jury is out" about 10-column ad grid

(From Media Week)

Sunday Times travel goes tabloid September 11

(From Press Gazette)

Telegraph considering berliner format

(From Press Gazette)

Guardian goes berliner on September 12

Ah, I can stop being so cagey to my mum at last.
(From MediaGuardian.co.uk)