The
New York Times has gone
and shrunk itself in an effort to cut costs. They claim that they've
lost about a tenth of the per-page news hole -- the amount of space to
be filled by news -- but will compensate by adding more pages. The paper's
now down about 1 1/2 inches to a foot across, a change in size that I
found almost immediately noticeable. But it's certainly a less drastic
change than, say, selling the family-owned paper to some Australian mogul.
And besides, a smaller paper's somewhat more manageable on the New York
City subway, so I like it.
