Introducing Edition, featuring curated interactive content to help you start your day

Jeffry Couch
·2 min read

Good morning, and welcome to Edition by the Belleville News-Democrat!

This is the BND’s new, daily digital product created to give you information you need to start your day, every day, in an innovative, reader-friendly format that makes it easy to find what you are looking for.

We designed Edition with you in mind, with curated metro-east and Illinois news coverage and other hand-picked, interactive content all in one place.

Here are some of the highlights and new features in the Edition:

  • Articles that include links to other stories and additional information, giving you the opportunity to dig deeper and learn more.

  • Strong visual journalism, including storytelling videos, stunning photo galleries and interactive graphics that enrich your reading experience.

  • Interactive puzzles and games that allow you to play digitally. (And you can still print out your puzzles, if you would rather do them that way!)

  • Enhanced features that make it easier to share your favorite articles with family and friends.

  • Bold design and intuitive navigation that gives you a pleasing reading experience on all devices - desktop computer, laptop, phone and tablet.

  • Access to content even when you’re not connected to the internet.

Subscribers can access the Edition in two ways. It arrives each morning in your email inbox or you can click on the link in the upper left of the homepage at bnd.com.

We encourage you to use Edition every morning, and supplement your information needs by visiting bnd.com throughout the day to get the latest news. You can also sign up for our newsletters available to you as a BND subscriber.

Our goal is to provide strong, independent and essential local news coverage daily, on multiple platforms, to BND subscribers like you. We are excited to introduce the Edition as the latest effort to meet that goal.

It’s all part of our commitment to serve southwestern Illinois, where our roots run deep, having published our first edition in January 1858. We’ve evolved as the times and readers’ needs changed over the past 166 years, but what hasn’t changed is our commitment to you. That commitment continues today.

As always, we thank you for your readership and support of the BND. We couldn’t do it without you.

If you have questions or feedback about the Edition, please contact our Customer Care team at 1-800-559-6378 or customerservice@bnd.com.

And please feel to reach out to me at jcouch@bnd.com to suggest improvements and share your other ideas.