{"id":431,"date":"2003-09-18T00:05:56","date_gmt":"2003-09-18T00:05:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/2003\/09\/tabloid_indie\/"},"modified":"2003-09-18T00:05:56","modified_gmt":"2003-09-18T00:05:56","slug":"tabloid_indie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/2003\/09\/tabloid_indie\/","title":{"rendered":"Tabloid Indie?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"MediaGuardian.co.uk | Press&#038;publishing | Independent eyes tabloid switch\" href=\"http:\/\/media.guardian.co.uk\/presspublishing\/story\/0,7495,1044160,00.html\">MediaGuardian<\/a> are reporting that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\">The Independent<\/a> is considering going tabloid &#8211; in the London region at least, possibly alongside its broadsheet version in newsagents. And this could all happen by 30 September!<br \/>\nIt&#8217;d be a brave and yet very interesting decision to make. I&#8217;d love a newspaper to have the look and feel of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lib&#233;ration.com\/\">Liberation<\/a> in France, which over the years has made very powerful use of its front cover.<br \/>\nBut there are a couple of strange things about this. Why only in London? And how can you keep the broadsheet on sale next to it? I suppose this is to lessen the impact for died-in-the-wool broadsheet traditionalists, but I don&#8217;t know that it&#8217;s necessary. The other aspect is the suggestion that it&#8217;d only cost 30p while the broadsheet currently costs 60p. Is that to entice you into reading the tabloid version?<br \/>\nTime will tell with this interesting development.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MediaGuardian are reporting that The Independent is considering going tabloid &#8211; in the London region at least, possibly alongside its broadsheet version in newsagents. And this could all happen by 30 September! It&#8217;d be a brave and yet very interesting decision to make. I&#8217;d love a newspaper to have the look and feel of Liberation [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/431"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=431"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/431\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=431"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=431"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}