Editing Broadsheet (section)

==Switch to smaller sizes==

===In the United Kingdom===
In 2003, ''The Independent'' started concurrent production of both broadsheet and tabloid ("[[compact (newspaper)|compact]]") editions, carrying exactly the same content. ''The Times'' did likewise, but with less apparent success, with readers vocally opposing the change. ''The Independent'' ceased to be available in broadsheet format in May 2004, and ''The Times'' followed suit from November 2004; ''[[The Scotsman]]'' is also now published only in tabloid format. ''[[The Guardian]]'' switched to the "Berliner" or "midi" format found in some other European countries (slightly larger than a traditional tabloid) on 12 September 2005. In June 2017, the ''Guardian'' announced it would again change the format to tabloid size &ndash; the first tabloid edition was published on 15 January 2018.

The main motivation cited for this shift was that [[commuter]]s prefer papers that they can hold easily on [[public transport]] and that other readers also might find the smaller formats more convenient.

===In the United States===
In the United States, ''The Wall Street Journal'' made headlines when it announced its overseas version would convert to a tabloid on 17 October 2005.<ref>{{cite web|author=Milt Freudenheim|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2005/05/09/business/health/media-abroad-the-wall-street-journal-will-be-a-tabloid.html|title=Abroad, The Wall Street Journal Will Be a Tabloid|work=[[The New York Times]]|date=9 May 2005|access-date=10 August 2012|archive-date=29 May 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150529175819/http://www.nytimes.com/2005/05/09/business/health/media-abroad-the-wall-street-journal-will-be-a-tabloid.html|url-status=live}}</ref> Strong debate occurred in the US on whether or not the rest of the national papers will or even should follow the trend of the European papers and ''The Wall Street Journal''.<ref>[http://www.deadlinkarticles.blogspot.com/2016/04/for-american-publishers-broadsheets-are.html "For American Publishers, Broadsheets Are Bright Stars] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161024093319/http://deadlinkarticles.blogspot.com/2016/04/for-american-publishers-broadsheets-are.html |date=24 October 2016 }}. ''News & Tech''.</ref> ''The Wall Street Journal'' overseas edition switched back to a broadsheet format in 2015.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/media/2015/jun/11/wall-street-journal-european-and-asian-editions-broadsheet|title=Wall Street Journal to revamp European and Asian editions in broadsheet format|last=Sweney|first=Mark|date=11 June 2015|newspaper=The Guardian|language=en-GB|issn=0261-3077|access-date=19 March 2016|archive-date=28 March 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160328110357/http://www.theguardian.com/media/2015/jun/11/wall-street-journal-european-and-asian-editions-broadsheet|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.pressgazette.co.uk/wall-street-journal-europe-print-50-cent-more-content-it-switches-back-broadsheet|title=Wall Street Journal Europe to print 50 per cent more content as it switches back to broadsheet|work=Press Gazette|date=17 September 2015 |access-date=19 March 2016|archive-date=27 March 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160327190413/http://www.pressgazette.co.uk/wall-street-journal-europe-print-50-cent-more-content-it-switches-back-broadsheet|url-status=live}}</ref>