A midyear report to readers, and so far, 2024 has been excellent: Letter from the Editor [Video]

Great journalism. Watchdog reporting. New newsletters. Plenty of audience engagement. And a healthy bottom line.

Halfway through 2024 is a good time to provide you, the readers, with a status report. We started 2024 with a zeal to make it count, to demonstrate anew the importance of independent, hard-hitting journalism in the digital age. Many of you support us with subscriptions, and we want to remind you every day of how that support helps the community.

On the journalism front, we’re having a great year. Foremost is the project we called Delinquent, Our System, Our Kids. I’m unaware of any newsroom tackling a project like this, a rigorous examination of the entire Cuyahoga County juvenile justice system, told through the stories of dozens of children touched by the system.

Our top goal with the six-week series was to get readers to see juvenile offenders as children, not gun-toting hoodlums portrayed in some broadcast news …