The sports section returns, and our news section expands
To our readers,
The last few months have brought dizzying changes for us all, and in the Chronicle newsroom, we’ve been adapting on the fly. Since late March, we’ve been publishing a daily section dedicated to coverage of the coronavirus, with our sports section reduced and placed inside the main news section.
That will change this week. Our daily free-standing sports section will resume Monday; we know many of you are looking forward to the return of the Rockets, the Texans, and, hopefully, the Astros. We will be on the scene to bring you analysis, opinion and feature stories as well as reports from the games.
We will continue to publish a full coronavirus section on Sundays. Today, that section focuses on what life is likely to look like in the coming months as we continue, slowly, to resume more normal lives while continuing to report on the troubling trends in new cases and hospitalizations.
We’re also launching a new series, Heroes of the Front Line, that will appear each Sunday, beginning today in the main news section. We think that readers, many of whom have asked us for more positive news, will welcome these stories. Today’s story features Marie Ekpema, who runs a particularly helpful neighborhood pharmacy.
Not everything is back to normal, of course. As we move our daily coronavirus coverage into the main news section, we will maintain several pages of daily coverage, including our full-page daily dashboard of data that measure the status of the disease in Texas and the Houston region. And we will continue our dogged reporting on coronavirus stories that are important
to your health and your daily life.
We also plan to dig deeper into the issues of racial and social justice that have risen after the death of former Houstonian George Floyd, who was killed at the hands of Minneapolis police. This looks to be a pivotal moment in so many ways, and we will be ready to explore how things could change for those who have suffered injustice.
As we rework our main news section to handle all this vital news, we will expand that section to include a daily page for national news as well as a page for world news. We also plan, soon, to add more news from around our region and from around Texas on page A2.
This is a lot of change, but it’s all aimed at making your daily newspaper even better. Please let us know what you think of these new features. As always, we thank you for reading, and for subscribing.