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From The Editor's Desk: New Year, Better 'Post'

New Year’s resolutions can be somewhat trite, and I’m of the personal belief that you should spend the entirety of your existence attempting to better yourself.

Now that I’ve clambered past that obnoxious statement, I do have journalistic goals for this new year — not resolutions — and I’m hoping our readers might be able to point out where our newsroom can further improve.

This time last year, The Post announced it would be transitioning from a print-daily format to a once-weekly, digital-first product. We spent the rest of the academic year planning for what our first edition might be, or how our newly designed website would appear.

The anxiety that move caused seems far away now, and our self-doubts have eased over time. We’ve since published 15 print editions and have become used to thinking about our website as our second priority — the first priority is still the readers of The Post.

That being said, we still need to remain on the tips of our toes. There’s no room for complacency in journalism. After some evaluation, a few changes have been made to how we handle the print edition of The Post to encourage further collaboration between what our readers desire and what produces valuable experiences for our reporters.

The Post is going to trim the amount of longer stories it has per issue, with the hope of only two or three stories expanding past one page.

Additionally, the paper will include more news items, such as community briefs and the police blotter, coupled with our regular features. We also hope to devote more room to coverage of Ohio’s athletics team, and to local matters of political importance.

As always, we hope to maintain our top-notch writing, design and photography, but we’re constantly looking for ways to enhance what we devote so many hours to each week.

This is about our reader, after all. Happy new year, and I hope we keep to our goals this semester.

Emma Ockerman is a senior studying journalism and editor-in-chief of The Post. Have a question for her? Send her an email at eo300813@ohio.edu or tweet her @eockerman.

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