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The home page of the new JN
website as seen on a computer (right)
and on a smartphone (below)
Getting Better All The Time
JN’s new Board of Advisers, revamped website only the beginning.
Jackie Headapohl | Managing Editor
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A story scrolled on the new JN
website
12 October 20 • 2016
he way we read newspapers has
changed a lot since the Detroit
Jewish News was launched nearly
75 years ago. Today, more and more of us
prefer to get our news online or on our
smartphones rather than in print.
At the JN, we’re committed to providing
the news in the ways in which our readers
want to receive it.
What does that mean?
It means we’ll keep on producing our
award-winning print edition, named the
best weekly in the state in our circulation
size by the Michigan Press Association this
year. You can count on a paper filled with
the unique stories you can’t find anywhere
else to land in your mailbox each Thursday.
It also means we’ve heard those who
prefer to read online — and listened.
That’s why we’ve made some invest-
ments to our website. We’ve revamped
www.thejewishnews.com to be a more
welcoming place to come and read. It’s
easier than ever to find the content you’re
looking for, share and comment, and oth-
erwise engage with the paper. (You can
still do all the other stuff you’re used to
doing on the site, like subscribing, submit-
ting lifecycle announcements, etc.)
Each day, we’ll post two or three stories
from that week’s issue for anyone — with
or without a subscription — to read for
free. You can get the headlines on your
phone and easily navigate to the stories
that interest you.
Not everything in the print issue will
be posted online for free. Just as not
everything online will make its way into
the print edition. But there will be a good
number of stories each day that all of our
audiences will find engaging.
The change is the first in a number of
new offerings we’ll be making as we head
into 2017, our 75th anniversary year.
Another change is our new Board of
Advisers. We asked 23 young and influen-
tial Jewish professionals in Metro Detroit
to help us find better ways to reach both
our traditional print readers and the
younger people in the community online.
These advisers are entrepreneurs, lawyers,
restaurateurs and activists in philanthropy,
the Federation or other Jewish communal
organizations. And they all believe in the
value of the Jewish News.
Entrepreneur Stacy Goldberg told us
that it was an ad for Bizdom that she saw
in the Jewish News that launched her
business career. Rachel Loebl Serman,
president of the Jewish Bar Association of
Michigan, credits the JN with helping to
get the organization off the ground.
The Board met last month in Detroit for
its inaugural meeting and generated lots of
ideas for fresh content — specifically tar-
geted to young professionals — with more
of a focus on Detroit and all the exciting
things happening there. We also got ideas
to improve our distribution, for partner-
ships and events, and other community
programming. Stay tuned. We have lots
of plans, including more and even bigger
investments in our website.
So please, check us out. Go online and dig
around our site and see what’s there. If you
have ideas for content you want to see that’s
not there, let us know! Send an email to
jheadapohl@renmedia.us with your ideas.
And if you’re not already a subscriber
and like what you see, please consider sup-
porting the paper with a print or online
subscription.
The JN plans to be around for the next
75 years, continuing to serve and connect
the community — in print, online and in
whatever medium comes next.
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