Ireland’s oldest student newspaper, Trinity News, has undergone a complete redesign, changing from a broadsheet to tabloid newspaper.
The first issue of the publication’s 65th volume came out today, coinciding with the start of freshers’ week.
Speaking to The University Times, the Editor of Trinity News, Niamh Lynch, explained the reasoning behind the redesign: “It was time to make the paper more reader friendly and I think the main goal in doing all of this is to try to boost engagement with the print newspaper.”
Lynch said that a lot of the engagement now is online but that the print edition “should be seen as the best of the content that we produce”.
“In order to get more people to read it, we wanted to make it more accessible as well rather than a hefty broadsheet”, she said.
Trinity News will produce nine issues this year, instead of eight. Any savings made from changing to tabloid will go towards funding the extra issue.
Lynch and Stacey Wrenn, the paper’s Editor-at-Large, led the redesign and started work on it as early as May.
Lynch said that she is “more than happy with how it turned out” and that although there were teething problems, they will “amend things to make it as good as it can possibly be over the course of the year”.
Trinity News is Ireland’s oldest student newspaper. It was established in 1953 and is funded by Trinity Publications, one of the College’s five capitated bodies.
