The York Daily Record/Sunday News will be slightly narrower on Monday.
Narrower, but with the same amount of stories, photos and words.
And the type size will be the same.
Assistant Managing Editor Brad Jennings has borrowed a little from the space between columns, between letters and words to pull this off.
The reader probably won’t notice this change in what’s called web width, designed to save newsprint, or the paper a newspaper is printed on.
Another change to note: Our newspaper goes from the computers of our journalists directly to plates, skipping the creation of negatives.
Before this point, the negatives were used to “burn” plates, but new computer-to-plate (CTP) equipment skips the costly need for negatives.
Sounds like a reduction in waste by eliminating the negatives and
time by eliminating the negative process.
To revamp an old phrase for modern times,
Leaner and Greener.
I posted the following email by Bruce A. Geesey. Certainly appreciate all the measuring he did. I’m glad he created a historical record of the sizing.
Two comments before we see Bruce’s work. A change in width does not necessarily mean a loss of content. As in the recent web width reduction, the reader will not lose stories and photos because of adjustments we’re making in the type.
Secondly, if we still published newspapers of the width found in the 1980s, many readers would complain because they would be awkward to handle versus the current size.
Appreciate Bruce’s work here.
Jim McClure
Editor
Good Morning Jim.
I had a few York Daily Records at my disposal to be recycled,
so before I put them out for the trash I decided to follow up on that
question I had asked about how big the pages were years ago.
Below you will find the dates of publication and the measurements
that I got from those papers.
It would seem that over the last 29 years the York Daily Record
has shrank in page width at least 4 times losing a total of 3.50 inches
in page width while the page length has stayed constant for whatever reason.
2012-01-07: 11.00 x 22.75
2011-12-17: 11.50 x 22.75
2007-06-18: 12.50 x 22.75
2006-04-08: 12.50 x 22.75
2004-06-26: 12.50 x 22.75
1999-10-09: 12.50 x 22.75
1992-09-22: 13.75 x 22.75
1986-08-14: 13.75 x 22.75
1983-05-12: 14.50 {York Dispatch}