Design changes include one-story front page

By Erick Schmidt

Monday, August 20, 2007

Notice something different?

We’ve made a change to our front page this semester, and we hope you like it. As you can see, we’re featuring one main story on the cover each day. The rest of the stories don’t start until inside. In their place on the cover is a quick rundown of the stories — “blurbs,” as we’re calling them — that will aim to give you everything you need to know about any given story.

The idea is to provide insight into more of our daily content by including more stories on the front page, while also leaving it up to you whether you want to go inside to read the full story. As with any redesign a newspaper goes through, there will be hiccups. Friday, for example, didn’t tell you where the stories were located inside. We’ll work on that.

This is a progressive change for The Kansan, and we’ve already heard positive feedback. But, I want to know what YOU think. Take a look through the paper and let me know what works and what doesn’t. As always, I look forward to hearing from you. Enjoy.

— Schmidt is a Liberal senior in journalism

Comments

hockeychump (anonymous) says...

Interesting, Erick. We're now the Orange County Register of college papers. Not that that's a bad thing, mind you.

August 20, 2007 at 7:24 a.m. ( | suggest removal )

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