Some eight months since we first hit the newsstands, effective this week, Politico will be publishing twice a week. And please note the days: We will no longer be coming out on Wednesdays as we have been doing. Rather we will be publishing on Tuesdays and Thursdays unless, of course, on public holidays.
Our decision has been informed by several factors chief among which is the demand and pressure we have been receiving from the reading public who believe that our product is too good to be served only once a week.
We are mindful of the fact that FreeMedia Group, the publishers of Politico, is involved in many other media-related activities. But we want to assure you that we are equal to the task of continuing to provide you with honest, balance and fair reporting as well as incisive analyses of news and other social events in our country and, when necessary, beyond.
We will step up our newsgathering acumen through the recruitment of more reporters. This will enable us revamp our news output in the newspaper as well as run, like a news agency, our website (www.politicosl.com) which has been receiving an impressively huge traffic of hits owing to what many agree is our impartial and balance way of reporting the news and our dispassionate analysis of events in the country.
We are also introducing new columns in POLITICO Newspaper including an English Language-teaching page which will explain expressions, grammar, structure, pattern and vocabulary of the world’s most widely-spoken language. This is aimed to be both a learning process for students, as well as a remedial course for career people. It is in response to what everyone agrees is the current alarming fall in the standards of both written and spoken English in the country.
Additionally we have started a column called DECISION 2012 which will look at the activities of political parties and candidates in the lead-up to the General Elections in November.
Under our Business & Economy column, which now comes to you on Thursdays, we will be venturing into the everyday entrepreneurship of both the formal and informal sectors as well as bringing you more macroeconomic analyses.
Black Box, the column of Fulbright scholar James Tamba Lebbie, will get more regular and even more incisive and will now be brought to you on Tuesdays. Our local sports page, which comes to you in every issue of the newspaper, will venture into analysing sporting events in the country more than ever. The matches, the backroom dealings, the twists and turns and the politics of sports especially as we approach the elective congress of the Football Administration, will be brought to you with panache. As we approach the November elections Bottom Line (on Thursdays) and Think Tank (on Tuesdays) will continue with their poignant and no-holds-barred approach to socio-political issues in the country to the extent that they will do their own MANIFESTO for the country as the clock ticks closer to 17 November.
We will prioritise coverage of and interviews with disadvantaged political candidates such as women and the disabled.
Politico, always for you! WE are prepared to afflict the comforted and comfort the afflicted. Uncompromising to maintain INTEGRITY! Secure a copy on Tuesdays and Thursdays.
