Note to our readers: Change is good

For more than 150 years, the Healdsburg Tribune has been showing up on your doorstep and in your mailbox. We know you look forward to holding it in your hands and reading the latest news about your community.
Or do you? In the last generation, newspaper readers are increasingly turning to online sources for news on their computers, tablet devices and mobile phones. Most successful newspapers have websites and social media pages in addition to their print products.
The newspaper industry is in turmoil as we try to predict what you want, what you need and what you’ll support in a news delivery system. Online news organizations are launching every month and everyone has a new idea.
We like an old idea – an idea of accurate, trustworthy and verifiable news. Every week we work diligently to investigate, fact-check and present you with news you can trust and we will continue to do so.
But, we also want to take advantage of new ways to communicate. Beginning now, we are unshackling ourselves from our weekly deadlines. Timely, interesting and accurate news stories, features, police logs, commentary and more will be posted to our newspaper’s website – www.healdsburgtribune.com – as they occur. You won’t have to wait for Thursday to find out what happened.
Once a week, we will assemble the most significant and interesting news and continue to deliver it to you in print. The size of the weekly paper will change a bit, but we’ve redesigned it to be more readable and easier to navigate.
Technology changes – we no longer use hot lead type and engravings for illustrations – but our community journalism values haven’t changed. Join us as we embark on the next version of ourselves – and tell us what you think, by email of course – ne**@he***************.com.