Louise Story of The New York Times critiques the redesigned BusinessWeek magazine on Friday and concludes that the print publication is now structured much like a Web site.
“From an advertiser’s perspective, the new BusinessWeek is designed a bit more like a Web site. There are more opportunities for companies to buy ads near articles related to their industry, and the magazine is broken into chunks, with four separate tables of contents. Readers tend to linger on such tables, so the ad pages next to the start of each section could prove to be lucrative. There are also more ads at the front of the book.
“Borrowing another theme from the Web, the magazine has added a feature within articles called links, which summarize related articles from other publications. Several media outlets do the same thing within their pages, but it is more novel for a publication to do so right next to its own work.”
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I just received my first issue with the redesign, and I'm not sure that I like it. Although the website-like format may be more appealing for advertisers, I don't find it as attractive as a subscriber. The articles all appear so uniform and don't draw in my attention. If I wanted the quick, efficient web format, I'd go to WSJ online or even BusinessWeek.com.