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I sent this email today to our Reader Panel. I hope you'll join. Your voice has more power than perhaps you know.

Thank you for participating in our Reader Panel.

Your responses help us improve, probably more than you realize. Editors and reporters read every response, and we make adjustments in our coverage. I will cite a couple of examples:

• You told us that you wanted our Sunday front page to reflect more of what is going on in the nation so we have added stories to address that.

• You told us you want a mix of “feel good” stories alongside hard news stories, and we have tried to make that balance.

• You told us that you often followed notices in the paper about content online so we added more.

In a more general sense, you have given us great suggestions on political, consumer, school and sports stories you would like us to cover. We have published some and others are in the works. We have taken to heart your ideas about improving our book page, our Thursday photo page and Go Triad. And you’ve helped us to NOT do some things. For instance, we were discussing expanding our daily weather package, and you told us not to bother, that what we had was sufficient for your needs.

We asked you whether we should add travel pages or science and technology pages. You said travel and we’re adding those pages at the end of the month. (The response for science and technology was strong enough that we’re going to add some stories on those topics, too.)

Your feedback is one of the best ways we have to find out whether what we’re doing is helpful. Thank you for helping us serve you better.