By: E&P Staff After changing from an unusual 16.25-inch-deep tabloid to a format of just under one foot square in spring, the free Daily News of Palo Alto, Calif., will convert in fall to a 21-inch-deep broadsheet.
The change in size corresponds to the five-day newspaper's change in printers -- from a commercial shop to the pressroom of owner MediaNews Group's San Jose Mercury News, according to Production and Creative Services manager Christine Eng.
The Web site free-daily.com, which first reported the pending conversion on Saturday, said the change will make the Daily News the first free broadsheet daily newspaper.
Freedaily.com speculated that the change from commuter-friendly tabloid to broadsheet may not hurt circulation, because most readers pull copies from newsracks rather than pick them up on mass transit, and may help advertising, because the larger format accommodates the large photos in department store ads.
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