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...longer hip person and - and putting all my chips on the table here - an ex-Wall Street Journal reporter, I am plucking my quill, or dipping it, or whatever we did to adorn parchment back in the day. And declaring: the new Journal actually was pretty good in its debut last week. (More than anything, though, I'm glad the relaunch is over and done with. As much as I admire Gordon, I feel as if I've seen his bespectacled dot-drawn likeness an awful lot in recent weeks in the publisher's columns, telling me, the reader...
...when redesigns are first launched. (Keep that in mind, Gordon, if you're called on to write wsj.com's review of TIME's coming relaunch.) Shorn of a couple of inches of width (so long, sixth column), and with space for advertising carved out of the front page, the Journal now seems less serious, less vital, almost (gulp) optional...
...form hasn't crimped Journal substance. On Day 3 of the new era, last Thursday, the paper produced a smart pair of page one stories about the biggest business news story of the week: the flameout of Home Depot's CEO Robert Nardelli. A news piece chronicled Nardelli's demise and his troubled relationship with the Home Depot board, and a thoughtful Alan Murray analysis described how Nardelli fell out of touch with the demands today's CEOs routinely face. The pieces jointly dominated the top of page one; I didn't miss that phantom sixth column (whose absence...
...There's also a new attempt at aggregation, which is all the rage (see time.com, starting today). The Informed Reader, part of the Journal Exchange page in the Marketplace section, offers short takes from various external news sources. It builds on what the Journal has long done well: offering busy readers quick summaries of the most important news and business-news developments of the day. On Friday, for example, the Informed Reader presented an eclectic mix of abridged items from the Los Angeles Times, the Birmingham News, Nature magazine and - how 'bout that - TIME...
...also glad to see the Journal is providing more coverage of the arts, as the paper maintains a decent stable of experts and critics. That said, the arts coverage is the one thing that's still tough to locate. If I have it straight, it appears in the back of the Personal Journal section three days a week, only the Personal Journal sometimes runs in the back of the Marketplace section. And arts coverage runs somewhere else altogether in both the Weekend Journal (the one that comes out Friday) and the Weekend Edition (the one that comes out Saturday). Confused...