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As a kid growing up on 94th Street, our family always subscribed to newspapers. For years we received the weekly West Omaha Sun on Thursdays. But our main source of news every day was the Omaha World-Herald.

My parents (and my wife’s parents) preferred the afternoon edition on weekdays, like most of that era’s newspaper subscribers. Their habits became our habits. At our house, Jackie and I subscribe to both the morning and afternoon editions to this day.

Publishing both a morning and afternoon edition is referred to as an “all-day” publishing cycle. That idea lost popularity over the years, and you might find it interesting to know that the Omaha World-Herald, as near as we can tell, is the only remaining “all day” subscription-based newspaper in the world.

So the next sentence is really hard for me to write. We will become an all-morning newspaper, effective March 7.

There, I said it. For me, and for generations of our readers who have been loyal to our afternoon edition, this will feel a little like losing a close friend. I owe you an explanation as to why we are doing this.

Let’s start with the truth about the modern “all-day” publishing cycle. While it’s alive and well, it has taken a form unimaginable in the era I grew up in.