The date is set…
…and it’s 12th September. The Guardian will, quite literally, never be the same again.
Your Comments and Responses
Comment from Barnaby Olthwaite
It has never been the same since they removed “Manchester” from the masthead!
» This comment was received at 20:40 on 03 September 05
Comment from the original poster,
sjhoward
Very true, but the editor says that this current change is even bigger than that one – it will certainly be interesting to see what they’ve come up with… And, for the record, I think it’s still the most northerly aware of the broadsheets, which tend to think that that anywhere north of Coventry is not worthy of coverage.
» This comment was received at 22:56 on 03 September 05
Comment from Samuel Pickwick
Is a change for the sake of change, such a good thing?
If this is such an unprecedented change, will it not alienate the established readership of The Guardian?
Will the change attract more new readers than those it loses?
» This comment was received at 19:47 on 04 September 05
Comment from the original poster,
sjhoward
It’s certainly not change for change’s sake – it’s change to try and reverse, or at least attentuate, the plummeting sales figures. I’m certainly concerned that it might alienate the established readership – myself included – and I guess we just have to hope that it arracts more than it loses, without it been driven to become such a populist paper (though, of course, with its Scott Trust ownership, sales figures are far from the be all and end all with The Guardian in quite the same way they are for everyone else)
» This comment was received at 16:43 on 05 September 05
