I’ve read some studies lately about the attention span of people who read – longer for print, less for online.

While the figures, the numbers and the data all seem to point to one thing, that online is the way of the future of journalism and to survive is to converge, the Clarion has been doing just fine in print. In fact, we’ve started expanding. Did you notice?

Now the Clarion is not only available on campus, but at select restaurants around campus as well. Despite what you may have heard, this is not a way for us to market DU, because we’re not about marketing anything. We’re about bringing you, the University of Denver community, the news that is important to you. It’s simple. We’re about student profiles and opinions. We’re about music and movies and sports. We are the voice of the Pioneers. So we’ve gone and expanded to places Pioneers frequent, like Crimson and Gold, Zingers and Greeks Gone Wild – restaurants where you might want to read about student life.

But you also may want to read the Clarion online at duclarion.com. And that’s fine too, because we now have a lot of online content that you won’t find in the print edition.

For starters, we have online-only stories that don’t appear in print. We also have video responses to the weekly Pioneer Voices question and clips of different speakers that have come to campus, just in case you can’t make it to the speech – like Noam Chomsky who is speaking this Thursday at the Ritchie Center.

Do you prefer news delivered straight to your inbox? Sign up for the newsletter at duclarion.com and have the Clarion sent to you every Tuesday in email form.

For the more interactive readers out there, we also have weekly online polls where you can vote on things like Panda Express replacing Sidelines Pub, which hasn’t gone over so well with the DU community (as you can see from the update on the front page).

You can also lend your two cents in comment form at duclarion.com or on Facebook – and if you haven’t liked DU Clarion yet on Facebook, you’re behind the curve.

And to all those tweet-hearts out there, we’ve got you covered too. With an active Twitter page, @duclarion, we’ll keep you posted with the most up-to-date tweets this side of the social media boom. So why not follow us? We may just follow you back.

We also break news online so you can have the freshest updates about all things DU as soon as they happen, like the Panda Express story – we ran that story even before the USG meeting even ended – or the bomb threat at the Daniels College of Business. Go ahead, put out your hand and give us a high five. Because we’re working hard to deserve one every now and then.

There’s an old radio commercial from my hometown. It goes like this: if you like what we’re doing, tell a friend. If not, tell me and I’ll fix it.

So drop me a line at cory.lamz@duclarion.com and let me know what else we can do to better tell you what’s up. And if you’d like to submit a news tip, feel free to do so on our new tips line, 720-340-TIPS, or tips@duclarion.com.

To all the readers out there who are still with me, congratulations – you’ve beaten the odds. If you’re not, that’s irrelevant now, isn’t it?

So the next time you’re walking around campus, grab a Clarion. If you’re in class, go to duclarion.com. If you’re on Facebook, like us. And if you’re looking for work and free pizza, come to a Monday night meeting at 6:30 p.m. in the Driscoll Underground. You won’t regret it.