AAN Association of Alternative Newsmedia

Tucson Weekly Whittles Off a Few Inches As It Turns 20

By AAN Staff

march 4, 2004 06:06 pm

Tucson Weekly Whittles Off a Few Inches As It Turns 20

Following an industry trend, the Arizona alt-weekly went down to 25 inches wide, from 27. At the same time it rearranged sections and added more music coverage, editor Jimmy Boegle announces in a special anniversary issue. Although columnists will be allotted 150 to 200 fewer words, the theory that readers don't like longer articles is "full of crap," Boegle says, and word counts in most news and arts stories will remain the same. AAN associate member Katherine Topaz of Topaz Design did the redesign.

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