Berliner (format)
Berliner, or "midi", is a newspaper format with pages normally measuring about 470×315 mm, i.e. somewhat larger than in the format known as "tabloid". It is used by many European newspapers, including quality dailies such as Le Monde in France, La Vanguardia in Spain, and La Repubblica in Italy. The French financial newspaper Les Échos changed to this format in September 2003.
In Germany, ironically, the majority of the national quality dailies use the larger broadsheet format known as "nordisch" and measuring 570×400 mm. The United Kingdom newspaper The Guardian is planning to switch to Berliner format in September 2005.
Only one German daily, die tageszeitung (known as the "taz") uses Berliner format, and another, the junge Welt relaunched in a size very close to Berliner in 2004, abandoning the unique slightly-larger-than-A4 size that had marked it out since the early 1990s.