Berliner, or "
midi", is a
newspaper format with pages normally measuring about 470&_160;mm × 315&_160;mm (18½&_160;
in × 12.4&_160;in). The berliner format is slightly taller and marginally wider than the
tabloid/
compact format; and is both narrower and shorter than the
broadsheet format.
[1]The Berliner format is used by many European newspapers, including dailies such as Le Monde in France, La Repubblica and La Stampa in Italy, De Morgen in Belgium, and (since September 12, 2005) The Guardian in the UK, and others as Expresso in Portugal. The French financial newspaper Les Échos changed to this format in September 2003, and the largest daily papers in Croatia (Vecernji list), Serbia (Politika) and Montenegro (Vijesti), are also in this format. The most recent quality newspapers to join this trend are Le Soir, the main Francophone newspaper in Belgium (15 November 2005), Rio de Janeiro-based Jornal do Brasil (newsstand edition only, April 16, 2006), and the Israeli Haaretz (February 18, 2007).
Confusingly, although the Berliner Zeitung is occasionally referred to as simply Berliner, it is not printed in Berliner format — the name refers merely to the city of Berlin, and was originally contrasted with "North German" and "French" sizes in the early 20th century. In fact, only two German national dailies use Berliner format Die Tageszeitung (known as the "Taz"); and the Junge Welt, which, in 2004, abandoned the unique slightly-larger-than-A4 size that had marked it out since the early 1990s. The majority of the national quality dailies use the larger broadsheet format known as "nordisch", measuring 570×400 mm.
The daily Journal and Courier newspaper in Lafayette, Indiana began using Berliner format for its daily edition on July 31, 2006. This is the first publication in North America to be produced in this format.[2]
