Alan Jacobson asks "If newspaper markets are so different, why do most papers look so much alike?"

Newspapers crave innovation but rarely deliver. Every few years a newspaper decides it's time to redesign. They go even further, claiming they've "re-imagined" and "re-engineered" the newspaper. The results more often than not?

Nada.

Newspapers squander this opportunity to re-invent themselves because their "unique" solutions are often clones from other papers.