Friday, November 19, 2004
Washington Post becoming a picture book
Instead of trying to be a better paper, they're dumbing it down...ugh!
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Instead of trying to be a better paper, they're dumbing it down...ugh!
In an effort to win new readers, Downie said Post reporters will be required to write shorter stories. The paper's design and copy editors will be given more authority to make room for more photographs and graphics.
The paper will undergo a redesign to make it easier for readers to find stories. It is considering filling the left-hand column of the front page with keys to stories elsewhere in the paper and other information readers say they want from the paper, which they often consider "too often too dull," Downie said.
"Newspapers should be fun and it should be fun to work at one," Bennett said.
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