Charles Apple

Sure, there’s a buzz of activity all along the East Coast as Tribune-owned newspapers work furiously to meet their deadlines to redesign. But there are non-Trib papers working up new duds as well.

Case in point: The Sacramento Bee’s new redesign kicks off Tuesday July 29, according to Bee editor Melanie Sill:

The most obvious changes are in the newspaper’s physical size and design. The page in your hands will be about an inch narrower, with handsome new typefaces including a new nameplate.

 

 

…The size of the story text won’t change, with one exception: The obituaries, still found in the local section, will run in bigger type and move to a standard six-column grid.

There are other reader “wins” that respond to requests we’ve heard and opportunities we saw: daily color comics, a doubling of daily stocks listings, more coverage of local food and wine and more.

We’re making too many changes to list here, and we’ll share more details in various ways before and after the July 29 launch.

We know regular Bee readers have deep habits in reading the paper, and that the new format asks you to change some of those habits.

We’re reducing the number of sections in the paper to save paper and to focus the energies of a smaller news staff. Our focus is on quality rather than quantity.

Read Melanie’s column in the Sunday Bee. We’re hoping the folks in California will share some pages with us next week.

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