Vigilant Reader readers have probably noticed some changes in the print edition recently, and starting with this issue they’ll see more. Editing always involves making choices, and we continually adjust our content for many and various reasons. The most recent adjustments allow us to serve our readers best by making the smartest possible use of our current resources—financial and human—and the different platforms available to us.
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In print we’re reducing our listings somewhat, cutting back on things that repeat week after week and information that’s widely available elsewhere so that we can emphasize the sorts of things that only the Reader can provide: insightful analysis, in-depth reporting, entertaining event reviews and previews.
Online you’ll be able find more of everything, of course. And in the coming weeks, a new tool will allow event presenters to enter their listings directly into our database.
If you’d care to weigh in on the shift, we’d be happy to hear about it at letters@chicagoreader.com. In the meantime, please enjoy this week’s special section devoted to the inauguration of President Barack Obama, containing stories both old and new and demonstrating, we hope, some of our finest qualities. —Alison True
