The Modesto Bee launches Edition — an interactive news product designed for digital

Carlos Virgen
·3 min read

I’m excited to introduce you to our new Edition, a daily digital product created to give you the 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.

Edition allows us to bring you timely news from Modesto Bee journalists committed to covering Modesto and Stanislaus County, as well as the most important national and world news and interactive content.

Edition will adapt to your screens, whether you’re using a mobile phone, tablet, laptop or traditional desktop computer. It also can be downloaded for offline reading.

Here are some of the highlights and new features:

  • The front page will feature the biggest story of the day and links to several other top stories.

  • Inside pages will offer a display of headlines for you to select what you want to read next. The benefit: No more flipping through page after page searching for what you want. With Edition, just click on the story you want to read and swipe to the next page to keep going.

  • You’ll find links to previous stories. Simply click on them to dig deeper into the topic or issue.

  • You’ll be able to flip through all of the photos associated with a story.

  • Dozens of stories of additional national news and opinion will still be there. But they will be organized in a way that will make them easier to navigate.

  • And, here’s a great feature: Edition will offer interactive puzzles, which will allow them to be solved right on the screen. (For traditionalists, you’ll still be able to print the puzzles and solve them with your pencil at the kitchen table with that morning coffee.)

Are you looking for the replica of our print newspaper on Wednesdays, Fridays and Sundays? That will still be there, too.

How can you get it? If you’re a subscriber and signed into our site, you can access it in the top left-hand corner of any page.

Want to access Edition, but don’t have a subscription yet? Visit modbee.com/subscribe to get a digital subscription and start catching up on the news of the day.

Do you have a print subscription and want to get digital access too? It’s easy – get started at modbee.com/activate.

We encourage you to use Edition every morning and supplement your information needs by visiting modbee.com throughout the day to get the latest news.

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

We appreciate your readership and support of The Bee. 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@modbee.com.

Carlos Virgen is The Modesto Bee’s senior editor.