Private Memo From New York Times Editor Bill Keller

Colleagues:

If you check the Web site this evening (or the newspaper in the morning) you'll see a pair of important, related company announcements. One is that the paper will be adding a new high-speed press to the printing plant at College Point and thereafter subleasing the Edison plant. The other is that when this consolidation is complete -- in April 2008 -- The Times will adopt the narrower format that is now becoming the industry norm. I apologize for this last-minute message, but I wanted to hold off until the news was given to those most immediately affected -- our colleagues who actually turn our journalism into ink on paper. They were briefed this evening.