Wall Street Journal reduces paper size - increases online size
The new design leaves about 10 percent less space for news stories, but half of that loss is being made up by cutting back on the amount of stock tables and other statistical data in the paper. Along with the changes in the print version unveiled Tuesday the Journal also launched a more robust online feature for tracking financial markets.
The reason for this in our opinion is just that the paper feels that the decline in print readership is dramatic enough to literally change the size of the paper. This is a prime example of the decline of print media.
