Elgin, Ill., Courier News to convert to tab
The Courier News of Elgin, Ill. announced today it would redesign to a tabloid format and kill its Saturday edition. The changes will take effect in January.
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A press release posted today at BusinessWire reports:
The Courier News will be redesigned to contain even more local content, more graphics and more of the intensely local information that Elgin-area residents want and need. The redesigned newspaper will launch on Monday, January 26, 2009 and will be converted into a portable, easy-to-read tabloid format. It will feature more in-depth and investigative reporting, more local features and more names and faces of Elgin-area residents — all reorganized into an easily digestible format perfect for the reader on the go.
The Friday edition will be renamed the “Weekend Edition” and will contain all the features currently found in the Friday and Saturday papers, the release says. And, naturally, the publisher of the Courier News says he hopes readers will rely on the paper’s web site for breaking news.
The Courier News is owned by the Sun-Times media group. It circulates about 17,600 papers daily in Elgin, about 40 miles northwest of Chicago.