With this issue, Volume 108/Issue 1, we celebrate our milestone with a complete redesign of the newspaper. Readers will find a cleaner, more colorful, modern, more visually engaging newspaper that is — most importantly — interactive with our Web site.
Concurrently, our Web site has been completely revamped. The new design is much easier to navigate, but the biggest change isn’t so much the design as what’s been added. The Review now posts breaking news updates online as they occur, making our traditional weekly format more of a daily — even hourly — publication.
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You can now go to the Web site and vote in our reader’s poll each week, and find out the results every Wednesday in a colorful graph on Page 2 of the newspaper.
Besides breaking news, our Web site will offer readers a forum to post and comment on Review news stories and features. It will include galleries of photos taken throughout the week by Leigh Ann Maze, our very own and very talented photographer. As we move forward, the Web site will have a community calendar with separate areas for entertainment, community events, and government, club and organization meetings.
The Web site is a work in progress, and besides the dramatic initial changes readers will find by going to www.hmbreview.com today, we will be adding several more innovations over the next few months.
We are looking to add more audio and video content, slide shows, photo uploads from readers, local blogs and special Web site sections sponsored by local advertisers.
What continues to set our newspaper and Web site apart from others is that all news content is collected and written by our editorial staff here at the Review. We don’t simply pull news stories from other sources over the hill and post them on our site.
One more thing: We promise to apply the same journalistic standards to our work on the Web that readers have become accustomed to in our news pages over our long history. Just as we don’t rush things into print, we will do our best to assure that what you read on our Web site is accurate.
A very special thanks is due to Review Production Manager Bill Murray, who is not only the heart and soul of the redesign of the newspaper and Web site, but also the driving force behind it. His design sense, his eye for detail and his creativity are unmatched. And, his keen sense of humor and general good nature has made the process almost painless. Almost.
I’d like to add that the entire staff here at the Review is dedicated, talented, hard-working and committed to delivering the best in local news to this community. Our door is always open to anyone wanting to stop by with a story idea, a tidbit for us to check out, or an opinion they’d like to share.
We hope our readers will find the changes to our newspaper and Web site as exciting as we have here at the Review. Please let us know what you think. We’d also like to hear from you about what continued changes you’d like to see and how best we might serve you as we move forward into the next 108 years.
—Deb Godshall, Publisher
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