More Guardian Berliner
According to the Press Gazette, the new Guardian will have some real changes quite apart from the size and the font for loyal readers (all 358,000 or so of us) to get used to:
- full colour throughout
- daily science page
- a new economics section
- expanded comment and letters (hurrah!)
- Simon Jenkins will have a twice-weekly column starting 14th September
- G2 becomes a half-Berliner-size magazine
- a separate daily sports section (more recycling, then)
- the G3s will be Berliner size and still on the same days, though the straight-to-recycling Life goes in favour of a new supplement on technology and the Review becomes Film and Music
- on Saturday, there will be a new Family section, and the Jobs and Money is separated into Work and Money sections
All these seems great, though I wonder if I’ll ever break the habit of leaving it on the news stand and reading it online instead?
I’m starting to get a bit nervous. Is that ridiculous?
I hope that they keep Bad Science in their new technology section, or on the daily science page.
Thanks to Pashmina’s awareness of time and dates, I’ve realised that I’ll be out of the country when it’s released so by the time I get back, it will be yesterday’s news. We’re thinking of starting a campaign to get the launch pushed back by a week…
You mean that Simon Jenkins will be repeating himself at twice the accustomed rate? I can hardly wait.
reading the paper this week it’s like the end of school, all those columnists signing off and saying they probably won’t be returning. i’ll be glad when the launch does happen. the changes they’ve been squeezing through over the last few weeks make it feel like an in-between world. i don’t like this citizen journalism obituary column they seem to be plugging at the moment though.