Continuing down my list of “things I should have mentioned last year but didn’t,” there’s the New York Times’ embryonic plans for their own youth-oriented tabloid paper, similar to RedEye, amNewYork, or that other one… ahh, can’t remember its name… something with an ‘x’ in it? Anyway, it sounds like the project is still a long way from launching, but they’re definitely kicking it around:

The idea is for it to be more like a hard-copy relative of UrbanEye than an easy-read news digest. It would be a weekly, heavy on event listings—like The Village Voice, or the New York Press, or Time Out New York or New York magazine or the front end of The New Yorker, for that matter.

You certainly don’t need to convince me that projects like Express are a big part of the future of newspapers. I’m just wondering why it’s taken the NYT so long to catch on; the ones I mentioned in the first paragraph are several years old and by all accounts doing quite nicely. The Times’s take on a tabloid ought to offer some insight into whether they’re actually buying in to the same idea or just looking for any way to boost the numbers.

(originally found via Romenesko)