Trib as Tab?
7:48 AM, March 7, 2005The Chicago Tribune is considering a tabloid version, Chicago Crain's Business reports. Two staffers have seen pieces of a prototype and one says news designers were recently pulled to work on the project.
"Generation Y, that's their format," says Susan Mango Curtis, a former president of the Society of News Design who teaches at Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism. "They should all be thinking about going tabloid."
That sound you hear is Robb "Tab Boy" Montgomery chuckling.
>Tribune eyes tab edition [Crain's Chicago Business]
Is this the same Trib that months ago said that the paper would be too huge in a tabloid format?
If so, Tab Boy has reason to do more than chuckle.
Posted by: Ernie Smith at March 7, 2005 9:22 AM'TAB boy' certainly sounds better than 'Cabana Boy'
;-)
This signals a dramatic reversal in their philosophy. They eliminated all of their TAB sections back when I was working for them.
Posted by: Robb Montgomery - Chicago Sun-Times at March 7, 2005 10:04 AMI am a subscriber to the Trib, and one of the main reasons I chose the Trib over the Sun-Times when I moved to Chicago was that I can not stand the tabloid format.
If the Tribune goes to a tabloid formant, I will cancel my subscription.
Posted by: Steven Andrew Miller at March 7, 2005 12:58 PMNot surprising. I traded emails with a few Trib folks last Summer about this, and got the impression it was definitely in the cards.
Posted by: Tom at March 8, 2005 3:16 PM
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