Starting Monday, you’ll see some changes in the layout and look of the Herald-Leader.
The changes will provide a more consistent, easier-to-follow reading experience throughout the daily newspaper, while also saving on newsprint costs.
We’ll be adding or bringing back some things you’ve told us you want — more space for daily business news and stories, a free-standing Tuesday health section, a full-color Weekender and a daily box of TV highlights, to name a few.
Here’s what you’ll notice most:
There will be three sections Monday through Saturday. On those days, the A section and the City/Region section will be combined into a single News section.
You’ll find City/Region on page A3, including a daily digest of news and briefs from around our coverage area. Obituaries will now run in this News section. The Nation/World page will remain, though it will move back a few pages in the section.
The Herald-Leader’s primary focus is local reporting about news and life in Lexington and Kentucky. By moving City/Region into the front section, we’ll be emphasizing this local news mission even more.
Other things to note about the News section:
■ The Opinion, Commentary and Feedback pages will remain in the the A section.
■ Pop!, along with the new TV highlights box, will remain on A2.
■ The Kentucky Lottery results will move to A2 as well.
Monday through Saturday, the paper’s three sections will be: News, Sports and on different days, Business Monday, Life or Weekender.
The Sunday newspaper format will remain unchanged, with a separate City/Region section, Sports, Life + Arts, Sunday Comics and an Opinions/Ideas section.
We will bringing back a Tuesday features section, with a focus on health, an area that is at the top of the news now more than ever.
All of the features sections are being refocused around a Life theme that will provide greater flexibility in the content that runs there, while still highlighting the primary themes and special features you’ve come to expect. In weeks to come, you’ll be seeing a wider variety of content in these sections, with an emphasis on the local stories and personalities that you can find only in the Herald-Leader.
Comics will continue to run on two pages in this section. And on Fridays, the entire Weekender section will now have color on every page.
The weekly features lineup will be:
■ Monday — Business Monday
■ Tuesday — Life + Health
■ Wednesday — Life + Neighbors
■ Thursday — Life + Food
■ Friday — Weekender
■ Saturday – Life + Home and Life + Faith
■ Sunday — Life + Arts
The weather will run on the back of Sports, as will the daily Your Health feature, seven days a week.
Now, a few words about business news.
The Business page will run in the Sports section Tuesday through Saturday.
We will be reducing the amount of stock listings on the Business page to make more space available for business news, stories and photos, both local and national. This change doubles the amount of space available each day for news about business and the economy.
The weekly stock and mutual fund listings in Business Monday will remain the same. If one of your stocks was cut from the daily page, you can go here to create a free portfolio tracker.
Longtime financial columns The Motley Fool and Bruce Williams, which have run infrequently in recent months because of space constraints in Business Monday, will find permanent homes on the expanded Tuesday and Saturday pages, respectively.
Throughout the paper, we have made subtle style changes to maximize the space we have available. The goal is to effectively use the space in the newspaper to continue to give you the local news, sports, business and features content you can’t get anywhere else.
- Peter Baniak (pbaniak@herald-leader.com)
How about the Herald Leader change its editorial board to more accurately reflect the mainstream political views of Kentucky? How about the Herald Leader quit allowing reporters (Cheeves) to do editorial work on the news section?
How about having your usual “very” liberal editorial writers balanced by a “very” conservative writer. (every day)
I think Fayette county would be represented honestly in this manner.
Both sides of an issue are always better than pushing one side.
Jim makes an excellent point. Maybe theres a good reason why the circulation has dropped; too one sided for the remaining readership in the center and right. Also maybe it’s about time to evaluate your current reporting staff, especially the ones that are so blatantly politically biased.
Now that your improving the layout, how about changing the content?
It all looks pretty good to me. I do agree with the first three posters about the liberal slant on not only the editorals but for the news as well.
The Lexington Hearld Leader does not cover an area dominated by liberal thinkers, therefore your paper does not do your readers credit.
Give it some thought…………