The Chicago Tribune will debut its new redesign next week, a slickly-designed magazine-style layout that offers readers fewer stories and bigger graphics.
The new redesign will also reduce the paper to three sections. The front section will have all local, national, foreign and business news. Reports have said the paper will have a 50-50 ratio of ads to newsprint, but with larger graphics and photos, there will be less stories.
There were prototypes of the proposed redesign that had surfaced on the Internet with the word "Trib" taking up nearly a third of the front page. The redesign that surfaced in recent days is less dramatic.
The redesign comes after plummeting ad revenue and high costs of newsprint that many newspaper companies, especially Tribune Co. which owns its namesake Chicago daily newspaper, have resorted to redesigns along with buyouts and layoffs to save money.
Other Tribune Co. newspapers that have undergone redesigns include the Orlando Sentinel, South Florida Sun-Sentinel and the Baltimore Sun.
See the new redesign here.
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