The Independent reports that the Guardian is soon to become a Berliner.
Having last year decided to join the exodus from the broadsheet market – led by The Independent, with The Times in hot pursuit – but plumping for the hybrid Berliner size rather than a tabloid shape, The Guardian’s stately progress became a gallop when it brought forward the date of its conversion.
Most modern newspapers are in one of three sizes:
* broadsheets (29½ by 23½ inches, or about 749 by 597 mm), generally associated with more intellectual newspapers.
* tabloids: half the size of broadsheets, and often seen as sensationalist in contrast to them.
* Berliner or midi (470×315 mm), used by European papers such as Le Monde.
Norddeutsches Format (auch Nordisches Format) (400 x 570 mm)
Rheinisches Format (350 x 510 mm oder 360 x 530 mm)
Schweizer Format (320 x 475 mm)
Berliner Format (315 x 470 mm)
Kleinformate
Halbnordisches Format (auch Tabloid oder Half-Broadsheet, 235 x 315 mm oder 285 x 400 mm)
Halbrheinisches Format (260 x 325 mm)
Halbes Berliner Format
Weitere Formate
* Broadsheet (295 x 533 mm)
* Halbes Schweizer Format (240 x 330 mm)
* Tabloid Extra (305 x 457 mm)
Sondergrößen
* Asahi Shimbun (Japan) (405 x 545 mm)
* Le Figaro (Frankreich) (425 x 600 mm)
* New York Times (390 x 585 mm)
* Prawda (Russland) (420 x 594 mm)
Le Monde is Berliner format? I am struggling to reconcile this with observation, for sure. Libébladet, yes, but Le Monde? (Maybe I’ve misunderstood the format.)
That seems to be what they say. Does Le Monde have two different formats? I have a tape measure here, but no Le Monde.
One wonders if the French Wikipedia might help? I am not getting anywhere though. There is a site somewhere with the front covers of all newspapers, but that might not help.
I had a peek at a Le Monde in Borders – it is slightly smaller than the Big Broadsheets, but if that’s supposed to rescue the Grauniad, they are doomed with doom sprinkles on top.
Cutting down on the endless, gratingly smug London=centric Oxbridge meeja-meeja lifestyle junk strikes me as a better way to revive the ‘bladet, in any case. (Assuming that actually doing a good job on news coverage is beyond the bounds of reasonable possibility.)