On Twitter just now, Adam Banks just pointed me at a truly laughable article: A Portuguese success story: could i be the future of newspapers?

The laughable bit isn’t the publication itself (well, apart from the dreadful name, which pretty much guarantees no-one’s going to find it online unless they know about it): the new daily is doing what various commentators have for a long time suggested newspapers experiment with. It leads with opinions rather than news people will have already seen on TV or read online, then provides a quickfire overview of recent news stories, before exploring some topics in depth.

The laughable thing is that this is being described as innovative. As Banks suggested, we’ve had publications like these for quite a while now—they’re called magazines.