Thank You, Dear Reader

Readers are not just clicks or visitors or eyeballs. Readers are the individual people we writers must aim to serve.

Among the least desirable tasks for journalists is the annual rite of filling the pages (in print) or having something to post (online) during the holidays, which tend to be a slow time for news in many verticals. There are fewer research papers published and fewer press releases issued, business news ebbs, and sources are more likely to be on vacation.…