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EDWARD GREENSPON

Globe and Mail Update

Latest comment posted at 4:01 PM EDT 23/04/07

Reimagined paper and Web provide readers something old, something new ...Read the full article

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  1. The guy who never stops bragging ALL DAY from Canada writes: Thank you Globe and Mail for allowing the public to comment on your online articles. Its great entertainment to have open and random discussion. Hang on to the appreciation of FREE SPEECH. Cheers, I gotta run, I'm saving Canada singlehandedly. ta TA
  2. Reduction Furnace from Alberta, Canada writes: 'In the end, though, it always comes down to the content.'

    I agree. Having worked at a Newsprint Mill and watched the type and trim reduce consumption as the product evolved as more user friendly, I worried about my future. Then I went totally digital and wondered about my living off of a product I didn't use. Is there a moral statement there?

    Anyway, I really like your new format. In time it may convince me to be a paid subscriber with a real name as I have been in the past so I can access that content. If you stay fresh with the hard news and open up on the feedback ... I might do it. The new 'business news' branch is enticing but I'll have to explore a little more ...
  3. Mike - from Waterloo, Canada writes: The redesign doesn't look that different from the old one, except that you have introduced yet another font style for the article titles.

    And the text 'ReportonBusiness.com' is in yet another font stye (serif, breaking the sans serif convention used for everything else).
  4. Leslie Hobson from Canada writes: While the overall design revisions to the Globe are a matter for discussion, did your focus group not comment on it being harder to read?
    Surely you are aware that your demographic group is losing their ability to read print. Was a smaller font really the best choice?
  5. Derek Holtom from Swan River, Canada writes: It's too bad this site shuts down, or prevents, the talk feature on topics which might be somewhat controversial... i.e. Conrad Black, Pickton, First Nations issues, etc.
    Why not make people use their real names when they register? That should keep the tasteless comments off this site.
  6. Michael Slavitch from Ottawa, Canada writes:
    Did anyone at the Globe and Mail 'reimagineering' team actually sit down to read the new format at 7:00 in morning while waiting for the coffee to kick in?

    Clearly it was someone under 40, with perfect vision.
  7. globe reader from Toronto, Canada writes: I'm sure I will adjust to the new look. Mostly okay. With the new layout and addition of second menu bar along the top, fully half my screen is 'header space' - wasteful and requires more scrolling, but then the ads are paying for my news. The bigger question is: Is the business section loading correctly? the article titles aren't bolded, layout is scattered, feels unfinished... I have to believe that what I am seeing is too rough to be anything but an error
  8. Tim Friesen from Altona, MB, Canada writes: redesigned is all well and good and I really love to read The Globe, but, I remain unable to procure the print version of The Globe in any fashion other than by mail. I find it completely ridiculous that you care so little for your rural customers that you refuse to find some way to get your paper into our community. Both Manitoba papers are in town by 7:00 am. The National Post is available by 9:00 am. The Globe limps into a gas station 35 miles away, usually by 7:30 pm. Very bad form, seems to me.
  9. Steve Karpenko from Toronto, Canada writes: We would love to be able to comment on the new Globe format but
    alas, we can't read it. I am afraid you have missed the mark with an
    aging demographic now scambling for their reading glasses in the
    early morning hours. We here the Star is also changing their format
    so that leaves us heading back to the Post.
  10. Steve Karpenko from Toronto, Canada writes: Who moved my cheese? Apologies for a knee-jerk reaction.
    After a thorough front-to-back read.... we agree that the new Globe is
    great. We did need the reading glasses but the new format is more
    manageable in the hand and once your eye adjusts to the closeness of
    the new type - it's great.... we'll stick with the Globe.
  11. Athar M from Toronto, Canada writes: At first glance, the changes seem mostly positive. The smaller size will take some getting used to, but I admit, it is easier to read (the paper 'flops' less often when I read it now). Getting rid of detailed stock listings was well past due; no one I know uses the newspaper to check stock prices (nor have they for years!). Having market summaries and analysis is more useful. More journalists are a good thing to invest in, especially more foreign-based journalists (a lot happens in our world and I'd like a Canadian take on it; the New York Times with its extensive network of foreign journalists is a good model to aspire to).

    My one complaint so far is that the new 'Inside Today's Globe and Mail' box does not do a good job of quickly telling me what's in the paper today (particularly with respect to key news coverage). It seems to give me too much detail on a given article (I can turn to the actual article for that); I would suggest turning to the second page of the New York Times or the front-page of the Wall Street Journal for a better model: a broader listing of what's in the day's paper, where to find it and just a quick summary.

    All-in-all, kudos!
  12. Randal Oulton from Toronto, Canada writes: Good for you. There is nothing wrong with being tabloid size, and I look forward to your bi-annual redesign, particularly to the custom font you have designed each time.
  13. Will Stewart from Canada writes: My first reaction is that you've gone from fully international, cosmopolitan, to soccer mom suburban. Maybe that's the demographic ('Globe Life') you're looking for, but I for one am disappointed.
  14. How Koh from Toronto, Canada writes: I loved the Globe but this new version appears bland and uninspiring.
  15. G. Veneta from Calgary, Canada writes: So where did the horoscope section go?? If the PM has a personal astrologist surely the rest of us could use some help! lol
  16. Barney Biggs from Surrey BC, Canada writes: I use the Globeinvestor and so far I am having more problems accessing the stock list than before. Before is was a one click process now I have to go to the menu and access it from there. A bit of a pain.
  17. Jan Ozechowsky from Toronto ON, Canada writes: Obviously a lot of thought has gone into the Globe's 'new look' - the new content sounds fine for now - but when my husband, a long-time Globe reader, opened the Monday paper, his first comment was 'what happened to the type! I can hardly see it!' I glanced up at one of the 'other papers', my personal breakfast choice - my page was certainly easier to read. With the much publicized 'greying' of our population, how could your team miss the fact that many readers who have grown up with the Globe for the past 50 years now look for large-print books on the librarty shelves. My husband has always chosen the Globe for content but is now reassessing his morning read. Any other aging eyes out there?
  18. Jason Wagar from Toronto, Canada writes: Kudos to the Globe on a fresh paper redesign. As for the web, the new page layouts with the story firmly planted on the left and 'extras' on the right is a very welcome change.

    One thing that really bothers me about the new Globe website is the use of Trebuchet for the headline of each story. Get rid of it, and scrap that awful font used at the top of the page for each 'section' (on this page it reads 'comment'. It's far too pseudo-futuristic and really takes away from the design and image that the Globe seems to want to project. Let's see these new fonts in action on the web, too!
  19. Alberto Bayo from Canada writes: Nice job, Ed.
  20. Dan Brien from Ottawa, Canada writes: Just a quick, good-news-bad-news comment:

    I found your use of photography and colour in today's edition to be inspired - please keep it up. You demonstrate that print can still maintain an edge over other media in certain areas of visual communication. But please, please, please, don't neglect the photo credits. Attracting people to the art makes them want to see who the artist is. In my opinion, there were too many omissions this morning; I hope that changes. But again, congratulations on an attractive new design and especially on your use of powerful and evocative images.
  21. Shirley Jackson from Oliver, BC, Canada writes: Obviously, the Globe and Mail is the best online newspaper in Canada. And judging the sale of your jobs website spinoff, your company figured out a way to make money on the internet. Somedays I skim 10 English language newspapers online plus CNN, CTV, and Deutsche Welle online. Three suggestions for improvement: 1) Put your entire archive database online so that we don't have to go to the library to access it. Research takes days. 2) Explain how to get copyright permission from your company to use an article. 3) Issue a guide on how people who have news to share can get it out to the public. I plan to take a course on public relations but ordinary people shouldn't have to do that to tell us what is happening.
  22. D Chris from Ottawa, Canada writes: As someone who grabs the G&M off my step and takes it on the bus each morning, and pulls it out again on the bus ride home, I absolutely love the smaller width of the paper. And the new fonts and styles work perfectly.

    While there are of course other 'content' changes that will be more relevant to others, short of adding a coffee-cup holder to the daily paper there isn't a change more welcomed for this transit ri(ea)der.

    Cudos!

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