London's Times launching tabloid
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Times' decision to offer tabloid edition follows similar move by competitor.
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LONDON, England (AP) -- The Times, the 218-year-old British newspaper, announced Friday that it is launching a tabloid edition.
The "compact edition," aimed at commuters on crowded trains and buses, will be available in London only starting Wednesday. The traditional broadsheet format will continue to be printed.
The newspaper's editor, Robert Thomson, said the new edition "will be the same size as a tabloid, but it will be very, very different to the average tabloid, as it will bring the values and the content of the broadsheet to its new shape."
The British press has traditionally been divided between the "serious" broadsheets and the lively but less intellectual tabloids, with their emphasis on sports, celebrities and sex.
In September another national newspaper, The Independent, launched a tabloid edition. The edition, which carried the same content as the broadsheet, was initially available only in London but has been extended to other parts of Britain.
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