Friday, October 2, 2009

My Lunch Tabloid

Polish newspaper designer Jacek Utko says the future of newspapers is

FREE

TABLOID

LOCAL

NICHE

OPINION

and people want to read it over breakfast. Well, maybe in Europe. I think we are too busy getting out the door to sit down with a paper in the morning unless we grab one on the way to the office and read it there. So I am going to change his BREAKFAST to

LUNCH

Yes, T-D, I would subscribe if I got a daily tabloid from you that was mostly local news with a smattering of the sexiest, grisliest if-it-bleeds-it-leads national and entertainment stories, the latest tech news, and a lot of columnists opining about more than just op-ed politics, and some comics and puzzles. (Did I just describe the New York Daily News?)

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