Globe editor tells journalists that re-launched paper will be "magazine-style"

[ This post has been updated] I'm only now catching up (courtesy of J-source) with John Stackhouse of the Globe and Mail, Canada's largest circulation national paper, saying last weekto the Canadian Association of Journalists  that the daily newspaper model as it stands is doomed and that when his paper relaunches this fall it will be as a daily full-colour magazine-style publication printed on good-quality stock and aimed at the Globe's digital readers.

[Update: The author of the real-time post on J-source, Ivor Shapiro, acknowledges that he may have overstated in the headline and misinterpreted Globe editor John Stackhouse's comments. J-source has posted an update, quoting him:

Approached for comment on J-Source's May 29 post about The Globe and Mail's relaunch plans, editor-in-chief John Stackhouse said the post was inaccurate. While the Globe was "taking some inspiration from magazines learning from the success of the ones [mentioned in the post] as well as newspapers in southern Europe and South America," describing the planned relaunch as "a daily magazine" was "way, way off," Stackhouse said in an email.]

It's interesting to read his comments in conjunction with an article On the Eve of Destruction about the Globe by Matthew Halliday in the spring issue of the Ryerson Review of Journalism.