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The Tribune Wants to Hear From You
As towns and cities in Utah get larger,
representing an entire community can be a daunting task for
a newspaper. We at the Web edition of The Salt Lake Tribune,
Utah Online, are stepping up our efforts to improve communication
with you, our growing online community.
Our hope is to compile a list of thoughtful readers willing to share their ideas, opinions and thoughts with us and with the community.
The Salt Lake Tribune is one of 27 newspapers chosen from around the country to join in an effort to forge new methods of communication between the newspaper and its readers. This project, sponsored by the Associated Press Managing Editors organization, is another step toward accomplishing that goal.
Ken Sands, Online Editor for the Spokesman-Review
in Spokane, Washington, and the coordinator of the APME Reader
Interactive program has created a contact list of readers. The
readers who volunteer are asked to provide feedback regularly
on issues via email. The Spokane newspaper has seen impressive
results in the quality of feedback they receive. We plan to
emulate this successful program.
How does it work? To use a real-life example,
The Spokesman-Review contacted readers on their list after the
attacks on September 11, 2001. Of the 500 people they contacted,
about 70 provided good leads or possible interviews for future
stories.
Another newspaper participating in the program had solicited responses before the State of the Union address and posted reader feedback on online only thirty minutes after the president finished.
We have no desire to make this burdensome on you, the reader. We plan on contacting participants no more than once every two weeks. We also do not provide email addresses on our list to anyone else.
If you are interested in joining The Tribune's
reader panel or if you have more questions, please send email
to readerpanel@sltrib.com.
We look forward to hearing from you.
Please understand that this E-mail address is not an open solicitation for opinions nor does the use of it qualify as a Letter to the Editor submission. If you wish to submit a Letter to the Editor Click here.
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