Comments on: Pensacola paper begins parallel daily front pages

By: Scott Griffin

Scott Griffin — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 03:10:07 +0000

I saw a Sun-Sentinel back around the time Nicole referred to. If I remember right, it wasn’t parallel pages like they’re doing on the Redneck Rivera. The S-S did things like put a big headline above the fold with a small line referring to a story at the bottom of the 1A or somewhere inside.

By: bryan devasher

bryan devasher — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 20:51:19 +0000

We tried something similar in Richmond this year, only we did the parallel front only on Saturdays. While it did slow a drop in Saturday sales, the main problem we encountered was juggling the staff to make it work. We pulled the plug on it a few weeks ago, but we have tried to incorporate some of the elements — brighter skyboxes, for example — in the daily product.

By: Dave Dombrowski

Dave Dombrowski — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 18:56:13 +0000

The Quad City Times also did something very similar a few years ago.

By: nicole bogdas

nicole bogdas — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 16:51:07 +0000

I believe this is something the Sun-Sentinel tried about ten years ago. Perhaps there’s someone hanging around from then that can elaborate.