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Southern California News Group believes that communities are strengthened by embracing diversity and striving for unity as opposed to divisiveness and provocation. With these values in mind, we cannot continue to publish Adams’ work for our audience.

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Due to the timing of our production schedules, Dilbert will continue to appear in some editions, including this coming Sunday’s papers while the change is implemented.

The Southern California News Group publishes the Orange County Register, Los Angeles Daily News, The Press-Enterprise in Riverside, Daily Breeze in Torrance, Long Beach Press-Telegram, The Sun in San Bernardino, Inland Valley Daily Bulletin, Redlands Daily Facts, San Gabriel Valley Tribune, Pasadena Star-News and Whittier Daily News.

Your subscription login remains the same for the new e-edition. In addition, you can still access it via our website, app or the daily email.

If you access the e-edition through one of our e-edition specific apps, those will update automatically to the new version without the need for you to download a new app. You will, however, need to re-login with the same credentials you have used in the past.

Check out what’s new with our refreshed design.

IMPROVED FEATURES

• Easier navigation – the tool bar appears across the top of the page with multiple arrows to direct you to more content

• Improved article readability – click anywhere on an article and it will pop up in text form with more options to increase visibility

• Better zoom features – options to increase/decrease type size stay readily available in the tool bar and in the article view. Other options to toggle between page fit/page fill or view as a single page or double page

NEW FEATURES

• Clippings – use this tool to drag & create a clipping to share, download or print content
• Bookmarks – use this tool to save articles or pages to return to later

APP CHANGES

If you use one of our e-edition specific apps, you can continue using the same app but will notice some changes.

Popular features such as double tap to zoom, one-click to open an article to read, printing and changing the size of the text remain within the app.

You can explore those options and app settings at the bottom of the page.

You’ll find there is lots to explore with your refreshed e-edition. Delivery of our news content in a format that is beneficial to you is our number one priority. We continue to listen to our audiences for ways to improve, so we’re not done yet. Look for announcements on enhancements in the coming months.

Read more below for answers to frequently asked questions.

Will I still be able to print articles and pages of the newspaper from the e-edition?

Yes, there is still a print feature that is found in the navigation bar at the top or in the icons at the top of an article in the article reader.

Here is where it is found in the navigation bar on the main page:

And here is where it is found at the top of the article reader page:

In addition to printing, you can also save as a PDF using the same option or you can use the “download” button on the main navigation bar to simply download pages without printing.

Will I be able to search for articles within an edition or search past editions in your archive?

Yes, there is search functionality to find articles within an edition and an archive to search past editions. There is up to 30 day access to archived editions.

Is there still an index to jump to sections or pages?

The index feature from the previous e-edition has changed to help improve navigation and is now called Pages. It can be found in the bottom left corner of the e-edition and opened by clicking the tab.

You can see what it looks like here:

Once you click the Pages tab, it will open a view with section labels and a thumbnail view of pages that can also be clicked to load that page.

MENU FEATURES

There are also menu options on the far righthand side of the navigation bar. In order, these selections are:

• Section list – quickly jump to sections of today’s publication

The new system powered by Viafoura will make it easier for all visitors to follow articles that are trending with the community, follow your favorite commenters and be alerted by email when someone replies to a post you’ve made. Ad-free premium subscribers won’t see ads between comments.

“We’re pleased to be able to provide this new and improved commenting platform to our readers,” said Executive Editor Frank Pine. “Our readers will now find it much easier to navigate and keep track of the discussions in which they are participating, and we now have better moderation to keep the public discourse family-friendly.”

The system will automatically disable comments that include profanity and includes the ability for users to flag comments they believe violate our commenting rules. Those rules prohibit the use of vulgar language, personal name-calling or attacks, impersonating another commenter and publishing personal information or spammy links or content. Commenters must treat each other with respect and stay on point. Those who violate the rules will be banned from commenting.

Clicking on the notification bell will allow you to see a feed of your commenting activity, adjust your profile details and see who’s following you.

The switch means that readers will need to log in again if they want to comment. You can do that by logging on with your Facebook, Google or Twitter account, or signing up with your email address. Comments made on our articles prior to the switchover to Viafoura will no longer appear at the bottom of articles.

Coming soon, you will be able to associate your login credentials with your subscription account. Subscribers and ad-free premium tier subscribers will soon get a badge signifying their status.

We hope that you enjoy this new feature and that it improves your commenting experience. To provide feedback, comment below or email us.

The money will help editors study how local news readers interact with homepages differently across SCNG’s 11 websites, with the intention of boosting local readership and deepening engagement. The project will blend traditional news judgment and existing metrics with a Google machine learning tool.

The Innovation Challenge is part of the Google News Initiative, in which the company said it would give $300 million to help “journalism thrive in the digital age.” The SCNG project, led by Managing Editor Toni Sciacqua, was one of 34 chosen from 269 news applicants across the United States and Canada.

“This is a chance for us to see if we can use tech to improve the way we get our substantive local news more directly to readers,” Sciacqua said.

Print readers have always paid for the news, though to be fair, the price of a subscription often doesn’t cover even the cost of newsprint and delivery.

The truth is, news gathering has traditionally been funded by advertising, but in these days of declining print advertising, those print dollars just don’t go far enough, and online advertising just isn’t making up the difference.

Real news gathering – the kind done by professional journalists who put their names on their work and who are accountable for its accuracy, fairness and balance – is not cheap.

So this week, we’re launching a digital subscription program, asking those who read our news to support local journalism by subscribing.

The first four weeks is only 99 cents. After that, we’re asking $10 every four weeks. That’s about what you probably pay for any one of a number of streaming video services.

And we’re worth it.We bring you the news, and more importantly, the news that’s relevant to you because it’s near you. Local news.

Our journalists are real people who live in the communities we cover, who go to the places we write about, and who know the issues they cover. We’re real people, and we do real news.

We believe that good journalism serves the people. We take seriously our obligation to inform the public and to ensure government is accountable to the governed. We are committed to the truth, and we are, ourselves, accountable to our readers as well as to those we cover.

We always aspire to get it right, and when, on occasion, we make an error, we own up to it and fix it.

RELATED: FAQs on the digital subscription program

We believe that the free press is vital to democracy.

But news, unfortunately, is not free.

If you weren’t already a fan of local news, you would not be reading this.

We hope, therefore, that you’re fan enough to become part of the family.

If you haven’t already, please subscribe.

The editorial board and opinion section staff are independent from the news-gathering side of our organization. Through our staff-written editorials, we take positions on important issues affecting our readership, from pension reform to protecting our region’s unique natural resources to transportation. One of our most important duties is making endorsements of candidates and measures in local, state and national elections. The editorials are unsigned because, while written by one or more members of our staff, they represent the point of view of our news organization’s management.

In order to take informed positions, we meet frequently with government, community and business leaders on important issues affecting our cities, region and state. During elections, we meet with candidates for office and the proponents and opponents of ballot initiatives and then make recommendations to voters.

The Tribune is part of Southern California News Group, which operates 11 daily newspapers and associated websites in Southern California, including the Los Angeles Daily News, Daily Breeze in Torrance, Long Beach Press-Telegram, The (Riverside) Press-Enterprise, Pasadena Star-News, Whittier Daily News, Inland Valley Daily Bulletin, The Sun in San Bernardino and Redlands Facts. When combined with its multiple weekly newspapers, Spanish-language products and social media channels, SCNG products reach an audience of more than 8 million readers each week, with in-depth reporting on exclusive content focusing on local news, politics, sports and entertainment relevant to the communities it serves.

The Tribune is best known for its coverage of local news. The Tribune publishes around the clock at sgvtribunes.com and also publishes daily print newspapers seven days a week. Over the past decade, the Tribune has increasingly prioritized the delivery of news on digital platforms. The Tribune is also active on Facebook and Twitter.

The San Gabriel Valley Tribune was first published 60 years ago, on the afternoon of March 21, 1955.

Before the Tribune, residents of the East San Gabriel Valley read local weeklies — the Covina Argus Citizen, the West Covina Tribune, the Baldwin Park Tribune, the El Monte Press.

Many said a regional newspaper would never work.

But founder Carl Miller had a vision. In 1947, he formed a partnership with his brother A.Q. Miller and Corwin Hoffland to run their weeklies and then began making plans to create a daily.

“Carl had absolutely no doubt that the Tribune would succeed,” Howard Seelye, the paper’s managing editor from 1957 to 1960, said in a story commemorating the paper’s 50th anniversary. “He had researched the area thoroughly, had seen the development that had already taken place and all the projects that were on the books waiting to go and jumped in wholeheartedly.”

He was right.

When the paper was founded, the San Gabriel Valley was just a sleepy suburb of Los Angeles, where ranches and farms shared the landscape with subdivisions. But those subdivisions were growing fast and new ones popped up weekly, alongside new businesses and industries.

The region’s isolation decreased dramatically with the completion of the 10 Freeway in 1955 and, a few years later, the completion of the Eastland Shopping Center in West Covina — the region’s first big mall. A story in Time magazine proclaimed the area along the freeway the fastest growing place in the nation.

As the area grew, so did the Tribune.

Paid circulation started at about 15,000 and took off in the late 1950s, hitting 44,000 by 1960 and reaching 90,000 by 1965, just 10 years after launching. Reporters were hired, a street edition was launched, a second wire service was added. The editorial department grew from 12 to 50.

The growing population wanted local control, and cities incorporated throughout the ’50s, ’60s and ’70s — with the Tribune there to cover those battles.

Other big stories helped boost the Tribune’s readers and reputation. The first came in 1959, when a West Covina doctor went on trial for killing his wife in a headline-grabbing love triangle involving his pretty nurse that attracted national attention.

In 1962, a series of stories uncovering municipal corruption in Irwindale won a prestigious national Sigma Delta Chi award for community service and a nod from the Pulitzer Prize committee.

And during the late ’70s and early ’80s, the Tribune received attention and accolades for its environmental coverage, particularly of groundwater contamination throughout the San Gabriel Valley as a result of the aerospace industry.

In recent years the Tribune has focused on government and public-agency accountability, or watchdog, reporting as well as digital audience growth. In an ongoing series the Tribune has reported on the City of Industry in an effort to hold city officials accountable for flagrant spending and corruption.

The San Gabriel Valley Tribune spent more than 30 years in its West Covina location on Azusa Canyon Road. The building housed the printing presses and there were train tracks that led to the building’s loading docks where newspapers were once distributed to the east.

After a careful search process, a lease was finalized in August, 2015 for the San Gabriel Valley Tribune’s new location which is on the ground floor at 605 E. Huntington Drive, Suite 100 in Monrovia.

The Southern California News Group strives to correct errors and has accurate information in all our publications. Significant factual errors will be corrected and noted in the online article as well as in the newspaper, if applicable.

To report an error, please email online@scng.com, and submit what needs to be corrected, where the error was found (which page/section of the newspaper and/or the URL to the story) and any other additional information.

Articles which have been corrected after digital publication will appear at sgvtribune.com/tag/corrections.

Legal demands for corrections must be in writing and sent to the publisher at 605 E Huntington Dr., Suite 100, Monrovia, CA 91016.

If you are one of those people who prefers to use RSS feeds to follow the news, we make it easy.

For any page of our website, you can easily create an RSS feed.

Simply take the URL of that page (example: www.sgvtribune.com/news) and then add /feed to the end of the URL so it looks like this: www.sgvtribune.com/news/feed/. That will return an RSS feed for your use.