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November 08, 2005
Our new look
An invitation to those of you who’ve seen today’s Monitor: Please let us know what you think about it by posting messages on this blog. You can write letters to the editor or e-mail me at mpride@cmonitor.com, but I’d be glad to take comments here as well.
Today’s paper is the first based on a content-driven redesign we began more than two years ago. Both the content and design aspects are still works in progress (all the more reason for you to get in your two cents’ worth), but we know readers will see today’s paper as new because we’ve changed the typography. The last time we did that was in 1990.
Here are links to my Sunday column and Mark Travis’s column in today’s paper explaining the changes.
Hope you like the new Monitor.
p.s. Whether you've seen the paper or not, you're welcome to have a go at the contest we announced today. All you have to do is click on the icon at the upper right of our web site and write a caption for the Mike Marland cartoon you'll find there. The best caption wins the original cartoon, in color, with the caption inked in by Marland -- not to mention the eternal glory of having the cartoon and caption appear in the Monitor. The competition will be tough, I should add. By this afternoon, we had a dozen contenders.
Posted by Mike Pride at November 8, 2005 09:20 AM
Comments
I am disappointed that you have eliminated your daily financial section. It was the sections that interest me the most.
Posted by: Jack Hybsch at November 9, 2005 03:41 PM
I like the new look. It is arty and bold, yet retro at the same time.
I personally could use fewer articles about long, drawn-out deaths on the front page though. It might have seemed nice to have a feature on this Beverly woman dying. But we have all lived through the agonizing experience of having a loved-one die of these kinds of sicknesses and it would be nice not to have to live through it day after day in the paper.
Posted by: Anthony Schinella at November 13, 2005 04:23 PM