The Olympian launches Edition, an interactive online news presentation designed for digital

Reading The Olympian on an electronic device is about to become more interactive.

Today, we are launching Edition — a new product that allows us to highlight all the latest news, regardless of traditional print deadlines; offers our readers interactive features like puzzles and games; and organizes the content in an easy to navigate way.

Edition will adapt to your screen, whether you’re using a computer, tablet or mobile phone, and it can be downloaded for offline reading. Need to print a crossword so two of you can test your wits? You can do that, too.

Here are the highlights of Edition, which can be accessed from the top of theolympian.com, in our apps or through a daily email reminder.

• The front page will feature the biggest story of the day and links to several other top stories.
• Inside pages will provide a display of headlines for you to select what you want to read next; no more digging through page after page searching for what you want. Just click on the story you’d like to read, and swipe to the next page to keep going.
• Links to past stories or source material will work; just click on them to dig deeper into the topic.
• You can flip through all the photos associated with a story.
• The dozens of stories of additional national news and opinion will still be there, but organized in a more efficient way that will make them easier to navigate.
• Looking for the replica of our print newspaper on Wednesdays, Fridays and Sundays? That will still be there, too.

At our recent community meeting at the Lacey Timberland Library, I heard a lot of concerns about puzzles, comics and columns, and some of those have already been addressed by our team.

• The Edition has interactive puzzles, so you don’t have to use pen and paper (though you still can if you want). Solve the puzzle right on the screen.
• We will run daily comics in Edition. On print days, we will publish only that day’s scheduled comics in print.
• We are bringing back the Carolyn Hax column to our print and replica pages.
• A print button has been added to the bottom toolbar of pdf pages that can be printed, such as the TV grid and Comics.
• We have added a section called “Classic Puzzles,” which includes the print puzzles on letter-sized pages that you can print.
• The New York Times Crossword puzzle will be in the “Classic Puzzles” section, although it will not be interactive.

We hope you enjoy this latest innovation; it’s truly a digital edition designed to be digital, a big step forward for us.

If you have questions or feedback about the Edition, please contact our Customer Care team at 800-905-0296 or customerservice@theolympian.com.

This story was originally published June 12, 2024 at 5:00 AM.