[Re-printed from an email I just sent]
Not too dramatic inside.
Thinner must be a reaction to the iPad and Kindle/Kobo -- commuters will prefer less fuss.
Glossy magazine-style photo above the fold differentiates from the ugly Kindle visuals.
Quick bites on the cover reflect how we read news online (140 characters?).
Odd thing: the Life section alone has the glossy treatment throughout. Wonder why. Facts & Arguments and Lives Lived on the back cannot be flagship sections -- this is community paper content. I would have used glossy on sports, cars or real estate -- anything where one salivates over a stolen base or aspires to a high priced BMW or home/cottage renovation. Given the decision to go glossy, they pushed it with a funky graphic on L2 -- but why? It supported only a psychologist's opinion on child rearing? Doesn't make sense. Maybe the double page RBC ad in the middle sold them on a glossy Life?
B- overall. But glad they're not dinosaurs. I'm excited to get an iPad one day and see what G&M does there. A nice template would retain the relevance of the masthead; otherwise, you just google individual journalists not publications.
