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When AI started out in 2001 it had a simple mission: to bring the news and features it craved to a hungry and growing cultural sector. You let us know how hungry straight away, and we set about building a more robust and formidable provider, covering the whole sector from visual art to museums to dance to theatre to libraries and, as we've been discovering together, beyond to areas of the creative world we hadn't suspected.

It has been an enormous success, with subscriber numbers rising daily and workers in the cultural industries relying more and more on AI for signposts to their next career moves.

But we have all moved on. AI has found and filled a need, and the need has grown. So we have rethought AI to give a wider perspective of the sector we serve, and give the sector itself more of a say through our pages. Although the format is more compact, there are twice as many pages, giving more space for both news and features.

Old favourites remain: the AI Profile, the AI Listing and Simon Tait's Diary, and we've brought back Patrick Kelly's popular local government report, Town Hall Steps. And there are new features we hope you will like. Twenty Minutes is a glimpse into the busy lives of rising stars in the arts and heritage firmament whose names are expected to become more familiar to us in the near future. The AI Rant is the opportunity for people working in, affected by or just interested in the cultural domains to give vent to their frustrations over a current issue. There's also a new round-up of what the national press have been reporting on in the last couple of weeks.

In our quest to be as close to the ground as possible we have also expanded and relaunched our website, which will change weekly rather than fortnightly, as the printed AI will continue to do, so that we can bring you the latest news without waiting for the next issue. This will include Simon Tait's Blog, an irreverent and sometimes irrelevant look at the week's events, and we want your response to what he says.

So use the new response line, respond@artsindustry.co.uk, to email your thoughts on issues covered by both versions of AI. We want to know what you think, because that's what we think.