When I saw the copies at the Alumni Center, I thought what was there was either an insert or a mistake. But then I looked closer.<\/p>\n
An eight-page paper the same physical size as a Farm Bureau Spokesman<\/em>, with four news articles (two of which were mostly graphics), one sports article, an editorial and an opinion column, carried the masthead of the Iowa State Daily<\/em>. The issue the day before the UNI game was 12 pages<\/a>.<\/p>\n “So, over the summer, our staff worked to vastly redesign our paper to better fit the feedback we\u2019ve received from our readers during the last few years,” the Daily’s<\/em> editor in chief wrote Aug. 20<\/a>, on a website that has had a definite mobile-first mindset for years. “The new design includes three main changes: size, style and type of content.”<\/p>\n Size: Smaller. Style: Lots of white space. Type of content: Well, there is some, with big graphics.<\/p>\n The Iowa State Daily<\/em> has whacked the print product down to a shell of its former self. This carries some emotional heft for me, because it is there that I started a professional journalism career 16 years ago today. (Yes, that<\/em> day.) To see a newspaper from the first week of classes, when I would have scrambled for wire articles to fill the extra-large ad-filled sections, reduced to a pamphlet was very sobering.<\/p>\n Or, to put it another way, as someone whose income depends on the existence of a physical medium: eep<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" When I saw the copies at the Alumni Center, I thought what was there was either an insert or a mistake. But then I looked closer. An eight-page paper the same physical size as a Farm Bureau Spokesman, with four … Continue reading