Notice anything different up here? We are piloting a new model for our news briefs so that we can get you more news, more quickly. Increasingly, we are tapping our reporters to draft these, so that they can bring you their expertise – as well as that calm, fair tone you expect from the Monitor.
Let us know what you think so far at editor@csmonitor.com.
And here’s a bonus story: Howard LaFranchi was reporting in Peru when news came of the death of one of Latin America’s bright literary lights. So he gathered some reflections on Peruvian Nobel Prize winner Mario Vargas Llosa.