Starting this fall, The Stranger—the smart, funny, irreverent, Pulitzer Prize–winning guide to Seattle—will publish on a biweekly schedule (for those keeping score at home, that’s 26 issues a year). We will print the redesigned Stranger on heavier stock, staple-bound, and with magazine-style trimmed edges. The ambitious new format will include a higher page count, longer feature stories, an expanded events calendar, and, of course, more writing from the reporters and critics our readers love.
We know this is a big deal, and this is why we’re doing it: Local media has to constantly evolve to stay relevant to readers and valuable to advertisers. We have to make sure that we’re delivering our journalism in a medium-appropriate way. And for those wondering (reasonably so, it is a difficult time for many in the newspaper world): We are profitable, we have been growing financially for years, we have money in the bank, and we are not cutting staff.
