Editing Real Change (section)

==Contents==
The topics covered in ''Real Change'' are a mixture of progressive local news and information specifically pertaining to the homeless and poor. Though it covers local news, it still openly advocates for "[[social justice]]"<ref name=dawdy/> and attempts to educate readers about homelessness.<ref name=pi/>  Some readers, though, admit that they buy the paper more to help out and interact with the vendors than to actually read the contents;<ref name=readers>{{cite news | last=Green | first=Sara Jean | title=Real Change's transformation includes plan to reach readers | work=[[Seattle Times]] | url=https://archive.seattletimes.com/archive/20050201/homeless01m/real-changes-transformation-includes-plan-to-reach-readers | date=1 February 2005 | access-date=21 March 2009}}</ref><ref name=hsu/> this pattern of buying is common among street newspapers.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.rrj.ca/issue/2002/summer/373/ |year=2002 |accessdate=12 February 2009 |last=Brown |first=Ann M. |title=Small Papers, Big Issues |work=[[Ryerson Review of Journalism]] |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20070911030448/http://www.rrj.ca/issue/2002/summer/373/ |archivedate=September 11, 2007 }}</ref><ref name=Torck372>{{cite journal | journal=Discourse and Society | volume=12 | issue=3 | title=Voices of Homeless People in Street Newspapers: A Cross-Cultural Exploration | last=Torck | first=Danièle | year=2001 | pages=271&ndash;392 [372] | doi=10.1177/0957926501012003005 | s2cid=145648624 }}</ref><ref>{{cite book | last=Green | first=Norma Fay | title=Print Culture in a Diverse America | year=1998 | others=eds. James Philip Danky, Wayne A. Wiegand | publisher=University of Illinois Press | isbn=978-0-252-06699-3 | chapter=Chicago's ''StreetWise'' at the Crossroads: A Case Study of a Newspaper to Empower the Homeless in the 1990s | chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Vqtgo0Zi0jEC&dq=%22street+newspapers%22&pg=PA48 | page=40}}</ref>  Part of the reason for the paper becoming a weekly publication in 2005 was to attract more readers and move the newspaper's image from a "charity buy" to a legitimate source of news.<ref name=readers/>