Quote, unquote: Imitation is the sincerest form of Saturday

The Weekend is meant to be a bit more like a weekly magazine and a bit less like the sixth paper of the week. It's a more planned and edited paper. It relies more on major story treatments on the various section fronts. It is more visually-oriented. It's more heavily integrated with the weekend web package. It provides more news you can use as a way of emphasizing on the weekend sports, television viewing etc. And lastly it contains a weekly Globe Essay on an important topic in the news that is reported and has a point of view, but is not an opinion piece. But, the main difference is operational, not strategic. It is our attitude toward story selection. We are trying to be more ambitious and provocative with stories that flow from the news agenda.

-- Globe and Mail editor Edward Greenspon, talking about the redesign of the Globe's Saturday (weekend) edition, in conversation with The Editor's Weblog (World Editor's Forum).