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05.24.2007 3:45 pm

Finding the comics and puzzles

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

As Page One editor, my name appears  at the top of  the list of editors’ phone numbers on Page A2. So I take a fair share of readers calls that are unrelated to the front page.

Today, five calls were from readers who complained that they couldn’t find the comics and puzzles in Thursday’s paper.   Other staffers are hearing similar complaints.

One way to remember where to find the comics, puzzles, advice columns and TV grid: They  always appear in the features section of the paper.

Six days of the week, we run only one features section. (The lone exception is Sunday, which has  the A&E (Arts and Entertainment) section and the Explore section. On Sundays, the comics, puzzles, etc. appear in Explore.)

On Monday, the features are in Healthy & Fit.

On Tuesday, the features are in Here & Now.

On Wednesday, Let’s Eat.

On Thursday, Get Out. (Some readers are finding this a bit more daunting, because Get Out is tabloid shaped. We are still working to make Thursday’s features easier to find.)

On Friday, Screens.

On Saturday, Weekend Get Out.

 

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Please go back to the old Everyday Magazine. the comics are the only thing I read and I’m having trouble finding them

— tsqaure
11:45 am May 25th, 2007

go back to the everyday magazine format. I don’t like all the bad news, so I just like to read the comics and nothing else.

— Nick Kassof
11:50 am May 25th, 2007

There’s too much bad news out of washington and Jefferson City for me. It’s a downer. Just put the comics where I can find them. they are the only thing I like to read now.

— Si Vis Pacem Para Bellum
11:59 am May 25th, 2007

I must agree that your changes to the paper are useless. By combining all these sections you share the paper and the tabloid format stinks. Why can’t you tell us why you need to do changes or why the tabloid style is so attractive to you, not the readers.

— Joe Ogle
10:30 am May 26th, 2007

Each of the recent changes turns the PD into more of a ’small town’ paper. Of all the changes, I find the Sunday comics the most annoying. Printing the comics even smaller than the daily edition makes them too difficult to read. Maybe it’s time to start getting my news off the internet.

— unpaidbill
8:36 am May 29th, 2007

Why did you change the format of the Everyday section???? It seemed to be working fine the way it was…and it was definitely in a more logical order!!!! Now it takes a long time just to find it….could you please tell us WHY you felt compelled to change it??? Thanks…

— E.D.H.
3:51 pm May 31st, 2007

Please return the Everyday Section to the Post-Dispatch. It’s a much better way to remember where the Everyday features are than your suggested way, having to remember what day it is, what feature is appearing that day, and what part of the feature section in which it is appearing. Today it was harder than ever to find the Everyday features. Get Out was buried upside down in the Classifieds with the ad on the back cover on top, giving no indication that it was not a bunch of ads.

A better way might be to put the featured section as a pull out inside the Everyday.

— Rich Audrain
6:47 pm May 31st, 2007