More blood at the Canberra Times

Plenty of freelance work and jobs out out here in the bush 😉

– sacked Pirate Party media officer Myles Peterson

The CT is going tabloid, just a few month after the others.

Roundhead89 said :

zippyzippy said :

And the SMH is about to reinvent itself in tabloid size. Wonder if the Canberra times is going to do that soon too? Like the Sunday paper every day.

There wasn’t an official announcement from the CT that they are going tabloid but the word is that it will happen on March 4 along with the SMH and The Age. The Old English masthead will go and be replaced by a variation of the Sunday masthead.

The Canberra Times is *not* becoming a tabloid. Both The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age published front page stories today giving details about the new format. The CT today did not have a similar story. Apparently the CT is happy with the old broadsheet format because – unlike Sydney and Melbourne – the CT’s major sales are by home delivery where people read it over breakfast, and there are very few people who buy the paper to read while commuting on public transport where the smaller page size is a plus.

zippyzippy said :

And the SMH is about to reinvent itself in tabloid size. Wonder if the Canberra times is going to do that soon too? Like the Sunday paper every day.

There wasn’t an official announcement from the CT that they are going tabloid but the word is that it will happen on March 4 along with the SMH and The Age. The Old English masthead will go and be replaced by a variation of the Sunday masthead.

And the SMH is about to reinvent itself in tabloid size. Wonder if the Canberra times is going to do that soon too? Like the Sunday paper every day.

Perhaps, some time down the track, the ACT government might consider making the current seemingly amicable relationship between it and the CT more official, and provide some funding for “journal of record” purposes. I realise many would howl at the thought of that, and any such funding should probably be up for grabs by tender, but when I think of all the other things that the local government spends public money on, allocating a modest amount of money to keep alive some form of community record is surely a priority at least worth considering.

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This is a joke, surely? Or, as Private Eye would say, Shurley Shome Mishtake?

You can always tell when an industry is on its last legs – when it starts asking taxpayers to keep it alive. In what way is the print version of the CT as a ‘journal of record’ any more valuable than the numerous online media, including the CT online?

As a ratepayer who is already furious about the waste of my money on hideous public art and handouts to ‘community groups’ that benefit no-one but the immediate recipients, how about setting up a privately funded enterprise called “The Canberra Times” to do this? It could record for the benefit of history such front-page stories as the prediction of the recent local elections, and the leadership of the Liberal Party.

LSWCHP said :

poetix said :

c_c™ said :

Barcham said :

I’m rather pleased.

You know what they say about people who derive satisfaction from the downfall of others.

Schady characters?

Is that a cross-lingual play on words I spy there? If so, my hat is off to you. 🙂

Just fill this beret with coins…(-:

c_c™ said :

Jazz said :

We’ll love it when all CT’s advertisers see the writing on the wall and come and see what we have to offer.

There’s something people are forgetting though, to my knowledge, RiotACT isn’t archived (because the law has yet to figure out print is on the way out and legal deposit needs to expand online). In another hundreds year, what will future Canberrans use to look back on Canberra’s day to day history?

That’s actually a good point, which I had in mind when I made my comment about a somewhat reduced printed version.

Perhaps, some time down the track, the ACT government might consider making the current seemingly amicable relationship between it and the CT more official, and provide some funding for “journal of record” purposes. I realise many would howl at the thought of that, and any such funding should probably be up for grabs by tender, but when I think of all the other things that the local government spends public money on, allocating a modest amount of money to keep alive some form of community record is surely a priority at least worth considering.

poetix said :

c_c™ said :

Barcham said :

I’m rather pleased.

You know what they say about people who derive satisfaction from the downfall of others.

Schady characters?

Is that a cross-lingual play on words I spy there? If so, my hat is off to you. 🙂

Robertson said :

Catty said :

Can’t read an online version over the cornflakes…

Of course you can.

A touch screen above the breakfast bar is ideal, but a laptop on the kitchen table will do.

It was pointed out to me the other day that in recently refurbished cafés in inner Melbourne and Sydney they are making the space each person has just big enough for a meal and a small computer such as an iPad. No room for a large newspaper, certainly. Even a tabloid would be difficult. (A small book of poetry would be perfect, of course…)

I had a moment of revelation the other day when I dropped some asparagus from my panini on my iPad…Definition of middle class?