How to access Vida en el Valle’s new digital Edition, and what you’ll be able to read

When you pick up the final print edition of Vida en el Valle on June 19, you’ll help bear witness to the end of an era for one of the nation’s most-decorated bilingual newspapers, ffaithfully serving the Latino community in the San Joaquín Valley.

Vida is evolving into a 24/7 digital-only publication, leaner and more efficient in bringing essential local and regional news to the Spanish-speaking community. In today’s world, where people expect news as soon as it happens, this transformation is necessary as we strive to serve the appetites of today’s readers who overwhelmingly prefer digital consumption of news.

The move is good news because our readers of Vida en el Valle’s Edition will:

▪ Get fresher news each Wednesday. Later deadlines will enable us to deliver information that happens much later in the news cycle.

▪ It will be a standalone edition. That means the news content will be gathered with the local Latino community in mind.

▪ The Edition (as the new digital edition is called) will be distributed as part of the Fresno, Modesto and Merced Editions.

▪ The best part: There is no paywall to access our content.

Starting June 18 – and weekly starting June 26 – you can access the Edition by logging onto www.fresnobee.com and clicking on Read today’s Edition. You will then see a display of the Vida en el Valle Edition. Log onto www.modbee.com or www.mercedsun-star.com and follow the same instructions to see the digital version.

Expect the usual award-winning coverage from Vida en el Valle. That will be augmented by stories written by La Abeja, a team of reporters at The Sacramento Bee, The Fresno Bee and The Modesto Bee who cover issues of importance to the Latino community.

Our coverage will continue to focus on the topics we have been covering since August, 1990 when we launched our first newspaper: Education, health, politics, sports, culture, entertainment, immigration and profiles of successful Latinos.

We will also focus on news from México, El Salvador and other Latin American countries of interest to our readers.

As a real-time digital product, we’ll track which news is of more interest and make adjustments.

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Thirty-four years ago, the Latino population in the Central Valley was 826,000, or 30.1% of the population in Fresno, Kings, Madera, Merced, Stanislaus, Tulare, Kern and San Joaquín counties. Today, Latinos account for almost 2.3 million, or 53.2%.

That population has gotten younger, and more fluent in English through the years. We evolved with those changes, just as we promise to evolve with today’s preferences for news.

Welcome to Vida en el Valle’s Edition.