Wakefield Express to go tabloid after 155 years

The Wakefield Express, a broadsheet throughout its 155-year history, is to go tabloid next month. The weekly paper, owned by Johnston Press, says it is making the change after readers voted for the smaller format. The first issue of the compact-style paper (circ. 33,935) will be published on March 16. The Wakefield Express was the subject of a famous 1952 documentary film by Lindsay Anderson. Commissioned to celebrate the paper's 100th anniversary, it was also an affectionate study of the communal life of towns in Yorkshire's West Riding. (Via Wakefield Express)