Would you like to know what we are talking about in the cleveland.com newsroom -- as we talk about it?
Do you want an advance look at stories we have in the works?
How about a direct line between you and me, so you can offer me your thoughts about what and how we are doing?
Then sign up for our new – and free – texting offering through Subtext. That’s the platform where various members of the cleveland.com staff send a couple of text messages a day to your phones about what they are working on and what’s on their minds. People love hearing regularly from sports columnist and OSU expert Doug Lesmerises and Browns writer Mary Kay Cabot.
Now, you can hear from me. Once or twice a day during the week, I’ll send you text messages about the buzz in our newsroom. And the best part is you can text right back at me. I’ll read every message and respond as I am able.
Sign up for free by texting a message to my number: 216-868-4802 (It’s a texting-only number.)
Unlike our other Subtext accounts, this one is free. We’re trying to strengthen our relationship with you, our audience, by providing more insights and information about what we are thinking and, more important, hearing from you.
We’ve done a lot in the past year or so to improve and expand the ways you can engage with our work, outside of our robust website and social media platforms.
Every week, the reporters and editors of cleveland.com join me and cohost Laura Johnston for a vigorous, smart, often-cheeky breakdown of the week’s news. It gives you a chance to get to know the team here in a way that is not quite possible on other platforms. The podcast is called This Week in the CLE, and you can find it wherever you get podcasts.
Listen to the latest episode here.
In sports, there’s no better way to get to know our Browns, OSU and Cavs reporting teams than through their podcasts – Orange and Brown Talk, Buckeye Talk and Wine and Gold. They’re also available wherever you get podcasts, and you can engage with all of them for a small monthly fee by becoming friends of the podcast through their Subtext accounts.
Next Saturday, we’re launching our From the Editor weekly newsletter, in which I’ll go deeper than I do in the Subtext account into the decisions we make and the value we bring to this community.
We’re on Alexa with our morning briefing, called The Wake Up.
We’re in your email box each weekday with a bunch of free newsletter offerings, including The Wake Up morning briefing, Capitol Letter about statehouse news and politics, Rubber City Daily about Akron and Summit county, and many more. You can sign up for any of them here, all for free.
And now we have my new Subtext account. Check it out and let me know what you think.
It’s a direct line between me and you.