You might have noticed that the Boston Globe introduced a new print-edition redesign today. There’s an extensive FAQ explaining all the changes, of which some are attempts to make the paper better (of course) and others are necessary cutbacks for the paper to survive in tough times.
Alas, all the changes are to the editorial and […]

Recently in an Editor & Publisher Online column, I described a couple innovative print classified initiatives from the Baltimore Sun and the St. Petersburg Times. The Sun, with its FindIt! recruitment stand-alone section introduced a few weeks ago, and the Times with its overall-classifieds BayLink section introduced last May, both took the approach of incorporating […]

The Society for News Design is holding its annual conference this week in Las Vegas. Alas, I’m not there, but I nevertheless have a suggestion for this group of mostly newspaper editors, designers and artists:
Turn your attention to redesigning newspaper classifieds, in print and online!
Looking at the conference schedule, you’ll see that there were no […]

Let’s talk printed classifieds for a bit, and specifically design. Here’s an issue worth pondering:
Given that newspaper print-edition readers are aging (average age is now north of 50), is it time to increase the type size of classified liners to accommodate the deteriorating vision that we all get as we grow older?

Bad: narrow columns, centered […]

American media designer and consultant Alan Jacobson has had some luck convincing newspaper publishers outside the US to sign off on some fairly disruptive redesigns for classifieds. One interesting example is aviso-oportuno.com.mx, which (via Jacobson’s firm) redid its web classifieds in a way that severely simplified the interface.
aviso-oportuno.com.mx is the separate classifieds brand for the […]