By Jake Parkinson
Salt Lake City Weekly
Published on 3/18/2004
Excerpt:
If not physically, then at least philosophically, Anne Conneen, design editor/adjunct faculty at The Poynter Institute, has Fisher’s back.
“There is so much competition for attention these days,” Conneen said. “The new styles of design are just a reaction to that. Most readers aren’t spending 20 minutes scouring the paper anymore.”
Papers owned by Gannett Company Inc., refused to jump front-page stories inside the paper.
“It’s all changing and no one is really very comfortable with change,” she said. …
The March 7, 2004, D-News front page had 829 words of text and a beautiful picture of a Mayan statue. The number of words on the front page is down slightly compared with 1,086 and 1,093 words on March 9, 2003, and March 7, 1999, respectively.
It’s a national trend, said Conneen. “We see it at papers across the country. It doesn’t mean it’s better or worse, it just means times are changing.”
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