BERLINER (FORMAT)

'Berliner', or "'midi'", is a newspaper format with pages normally measuring about 470 mm × 315 mm (18½ in × 12.4 in). The berliner format is slightly taller and marginally wider than the tabloid/compact format; and is both narrower and shorter than the broadsheet format. [1]

Contents

European newspapers

North American newspapers

Indian newspapers

References

See also

European newspapers

It is used by many European newspapers, including dailies such as ''Le Monde'' in France, ''La Repubblica'' and ''La Stampa'' in Italy, ''De Morgen'' in Belgium, and (since September 12, 2005) ''The Guardian'' in the UK. The French financial newspaper ''Les Échos'' changed to this format in September 2003, and the largest daily papers in Croatia (''Vecernji List''), Serbia (''Politika'') and Montenegro (''Vijesti''), are also in this format. The most recent quality newspapers to join this trend are ''Le Soir'', the main Francophone newspaper in Belgium (15 November 2005), Rio de Janeiro-based ''Jornal do Brasil'' (newsstand edition only, April 16 2006), and the Israeli ''Haaretz'' (February 18 2007).
Confusingly, although the ''Berliner Zeitung'' is occasionally referred to as simply ''Berliner'', it is ''not'' printed in Berliner format — the name refers merely to the city of Berlin, and was originally contrasted with "North German" and "French" sizes in the early 20th century. In fact, only two German national dailies use ''Berliner'' format: ''Die Tageszeitung'' (known as the "''Taz''"); and the ''Junge Welt'', which, in 2004, abandoned the unique slightly-larger-than-A4 size that had marked it out since the early 1990s. The majority of the national quality dailies use the larger broadsheet format known as "nordisch", measuring 570×400 mm.

North American newspapers

The daily ''Journal and Courier'' newspaper in Lafayette, Indiana began using Berliner format for its daily edition on July 31, 2006. This is the first publication in North America to be produced in this format.

Indian newspapers

The business daily ''Mint'', a collaboration with the Indian media house, Hindustan Times Media Limited (HTML), and The Wall Street Journal, is the latest to be launched in the Berliner format on February 01, 2007. The India Today Group has also formed a JV with UK's ''Daily Mail'' for a Berliner, which is to be launched by 2007-end.

References

★ How we got the measure of the Berliner (discussing the Guardian's switch to the format)

See also

★ Broadsheet

★ Compact (newspaper)

★ Tabloid

★ List of newspapers