Sun adapts as we all fight the pandemic

The Vancouver Sun has changed during the current pandemic.

While our reporters and editors are doubling down to give you all the latest news and information about COVID -19, we also have taken new steps to help our community in its time of need.

We have built an online directory of businesses that remain open for service and we are encouraging our readers to shop local, for example. On another front, our Adopt-A- School board of directors is pressing to get special emergency food and aid to needy B.C. children whose schools have closed.

But our readers have undoubtedly begun to notice changes in the newspaper itself as a result of the unprecedented societal disruption.

Sports, arts, business and travel content has been reduced because games and cultural events have stopped, venues have closed and people are staying home. Also, there is understandably less advertising on our pages as many businesses hit by COVID-19 slash spending and fight to survive. So, for as long as this crisis lasts, you will notice sections are combined more frequently and in different ways.

Our focus on local news remains undiminished, though.

We know that it’s critically important to you that our journalists continue to provide you with comprehensive, factual coverage of the pandemic’s impact on our community, advice on how to cope and thoughtful opinion and analysis.

We also remain committed to a robust package of national and world content, as we explore the global implications of what we are experiencing and ideas about how we will rebuild afterward.

To our newspaper readers, we urge you to check out the deeper file of our content online on our website at vancouversun.com.

Lastly, our call centre is currently experiencing an unprecedented volume of calls. For faster service to process a delivery concern, temporarily stop or restart your delivery, renew your subscription, or update your credit card information, we encourage you to manage your subscription online by visiting vancouversun. com/mysubscription or by using our automated call processing system by calling 1-800-663-2662 and following the prompts. These services are available seven days a week, 24 hours a day. Your patience is appreciated.

Thank you on behalf of The Vancouver Sun team for your continued readership and support of local journalism.

By standing together, we will get through this.