15 June, 2005

Guardian resize

The Guardian has announced it is to introduce its new, smaller format in this autumn, about a year earlier than planned.

Carolyn McCall, the chief executive of Guardian Newspapers, said today;

Just over a year ago we made one of the most important decisions in the 184-year history of the Guardian, and the 213-year history of the Observer.

The shift to a smaller format is getting widespread in the British newspaper industry, following renewals of the Independent and Times, which have pushed the companys' sales.

The Guardian's shift tells us this tabloid size trend is not just a fad any more. So who's next? Telegraph or FT? (In fact, Telegraph has already announced it's planning to resize the format. Wait, has it done yet? To be honest, I haven't followed the Telegraph shift news.)

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14 June 2005
By Julia Day