Heeding Reader Feedback, Hartford Courant Reverses Redesign

The people have spoken, and they liked the old Hartford Courant, before the paper’s hasty redesign last summer in the wake of significant staff cuts. And the paper has listened, reverting to the traditional horizontal placement of the nameplate and scrapping the wee “.com” that the redesign had appended. “The horizontal nameplate really gives us more flexibility for story play and more variety from day to day,” Melanie Shaffer, design director at the Courant, told