Greeneville (Tenn.) Sun launches redesign
The Greeneville Sun — a family-owned daily in northeastern Tennessee with a circulation of about 14,600 — launched a redesign this morning.
An unbylined story in today’s paper reports:
Readers will notice that in some ways there is a different “look” about the appearance of today’s issue of the Sun.
Some of the changes are what in newspaper jargon are called “design” matters. These are the ones that affect the appearance of a page — for instance, headlines, section headings, etc.
Among the changes:
* Narrower page width
* New fonts
* New nameplate and index box on page one
* Titles of some pages changed
The story repeats something stressed in the aforementioned story in Saturday’s paper: Features will stay anchored where they are nothing has been dropped.
The redesign project took a year, according to editor John M. Jones Jr. The Saturday story quotes Jones as saying:
We have been working with Edward Henninger, of South Carolina, a very experienced newspaperman himself as well as one of the best known and most respected design specialists in the newspaper field.
Mr. Henninger has worked with many community newspapers as well as those of other sizes, and he has been a good partner for us in this year-long project.
If anyone in Greeneville could pass along before-and-after samples of page one, we’d appreciate it.