The Pacer has made some changes this year.
First, we have changed the size and look of our bi-weekly print edition. In doing this, we hope to give you a more compact publication that you can hold easier, yet a publication that still has all the information you want and need. We have also changed the content that goes in the print edition to be stories that have a sort of timelessness to them, stories that take the news and events you already know about and go more in-depth with them, stories to hang on your refrigerator. Any newspaper can tell you what, when and where it happened, but how many of them offer you the why and the how? Here, we hope to explore those questions.
Also, we have created a completely new website, thepacer.net. This website was launched today, and we encourage you to check it out, because it is 10 times better than the one we had before. We have had the dream to re-do our website ever since the middle of last year, and with some help this summer from one of our Managing Editors, Bradley Stringfield, we accomplished that. This website offers you a much more detailed navigation system for finding the articles within each of our sections, and it offers you media that we couldn’t offer before – videos, photo galleries and a homepage slideshow of our top stories. This will be updated every day, giving you all the news that you need to know in digital format, so you can share it on your own social media and access it on your smart devices.
Every August, college semesters all over the country begin. Freshmen enter with naivety to the secondary education world; upperclassmen enter with a list of things to check off so they can walk across the stage when their time is up. This year is no different. However, for The Pacer, this year is very different. We are on a quest to change, to be better than we were before, to strive to be a consistently excellent publication. Our message is the same, but our methods are changing. We are making the move to become a staff that is all in, completely dedicated to being better journalists and completely dedicated to making The Pacer the best newspaper it can be.
For those on the staff and editorial board of The Pacer, this isn’t just a side project for us. It is our first priority, along with our own educations. We want to take your concerns and your opinions seriously. We want to deliver something that’s relevant and engaging. We want to give you an authentic and respectable place to get information and to add opinions of your own. The editorial board of this publication runs the show in order to get the content out, but in the end, you are the voice.
So, welcome to the orderly chaos that is The Pacer. We hope that you will join us in our quest by writing to us, offering us your input, visiting our website or simply picking up a paper off the rack and reading it.
