Monday, September 21, 2009

Let us know how we can make our newspaper better!

Dear Readers,

On Sunday, we spent the morning manning The Review’s table at Community Day, the annual festival sponsored by the city of Newark and held on The Green. We took our place among the hundreds of other information booths, handing out last week’s issue and telling community members about the paper.

We were surprised by the amount of reaction we received. Several people dropped by to mention that they, too, once worked for The Review. Past alumni also stopped to pick up a paper and told us that they hadn’t seen an issue of The Review in years. An elderly reader questioned us about why The Review is no longer delivered to her favorite grocery store (a problem we’re now looking into). Another gentleman confronted us about profanity that was prevalent in the paper years ago (but, for the record, has since been eliminated.)

While we were surprised by some of the feedback we received, we were happy to see that readers care enough about the paper to bring up such issues. That’s why we say in this column almost every week that we invite you to tell us what you think. We work every week to put out a paper that serves our readers as best as possible, so we rely on your feedback to let us know what to improve and what we should be covering.

There are many different ways to get in touch with us. Email us directly (editor@udereview.com) or even interact with us on the Web through our Twitter ( twitter.com/udreview) and Facebook pages.

Care to comment on a recent article or prevalent issue? Submit a Letter to the Editor at letters@udreview.com. Interested in writing a guest column? Contact our editorial editors Lydia Woolever and Haley Marks for more information.

We work hard to cover and represent the most important and recent news for you. Let us know how we’re doing.

Faithfully yours,

Josh Shannon, Editor in Chief

Maddie Thomas, Executive Editor

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