Your publication does tend to be a bit lengthy and verbose. As a person with limited time, I can rarely plough through the full version of your newsletter - even the new 'split-level' one - in its entirety.

I have 2 points.

1. When skimming through to look for specific items, it would be easier if the demarcations between items were clearer.

2. It would be helpful to have a succinct summary of the principal items, including the main points and conclusion of each.

Pambazuka News replies: Yes, the newsletter is long, but people also tend to go to sections that interest them, so if we start cutting sections to make the newsletter shorter then we do some readers a disservice.

We have for some time had a highlights section at the top of the newsletter that attempts to pull out stories from the newsletter as a whole.