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A Letter to Our Readers About the Sunday Review

Starting Sunday, June 26, 2011, The Times will bring you a new section, Sunday Review, that reinvents, reimagines and reorganizes the Week in Review to offer new features and a new way of presenting our finest analytical and opinion writing.

Why, you ask, change something that is part of our history? We, too, are attached to the Week in Review. But we were frustrated by the simple geographic division between the news analysis pieces in the front and the opinion pieces in the back. We thought readers would find it more useful to have the stories, photographs and charts offered in an integrated way.

The new section will feature the best of what both the Times newsroom and the opinion pages have to offer, along with provocative and, we hope, entertaining voices from outside the paper. At times, these analysis articles and opinion articles may be presented with each other in themed packages, but they will always be clearly labeled so you can distinguish them.

So in this new section, you will find many of your old favorites: news analysis pieces by some of the best reporters in the business, like John Burns, David Leonhardt, David Sanger, Anthony Shadid, Sheryl Gay Stolberg and Kate Zernike, as well as insight and opinion from the Op-Ed columnists who regularly appear on Sunday: Maureen Dowd, Thomas Friedman and Nicholas Kristof.

In the future, we will also feature work on Sundays from our other opinion columnists, like Charles Blow, David Brooks, Gail Collins, Ross Douthat, Paul Krugman and Joe Nocera. They, of course, will still be appearing in their regular spots.

We’re also adding new features, creating an opinion and news analysis section that carries on the best of the old with our vision for what readers will love. On Page 2, you will find Frank Bruni in his debut as an opinion columnist. We’re also offering comics on the back page, expanded space for editorials, but also more input from a crucial part of this relationship: you, the reader.

Please let us know if you have ideas, suggestions or criticisms of this new section. Like everything we do, it is steeped in tradition, but a work in progress.

Bill Keller
Executive Editor

Andrew Rosenthal
Editorial Page Editor

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