FROM THE EDITOR.

• Date: 01 August 2022
• Author: Anderson, Tasha

It may be surprising to some how early we plan our editorial calendar. We're already hard at work on the 2023 calendar, which will be finalized by the time this letter is published. Guiding us are lessons learned from our 2022 planning process, in which we moved away from writing specific headlines a year out, opting instead to identify over-arching themes in which we could find tighter angles closer to publication.

We also added a "focus" to almost every month. Some months focus on a particular region, others on a specific topic. The idea of the focus isn't one feature story or a special section but instead...