{"id":640400,"date":"2009-10-21T10:40:00","date_gmt":"2009-10-21T15:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2745923954793947308.post-1380854047954315953"},"modified":"2009-10-21T10:49:11","modified_gmt":"2009-10-21T15:49:11","slug":"most-people-read-a-local-weekly-paper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/640400","title":{"rendered":"Most People Read a Local Weekly Paper"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"COLOR: rgb(102,102,102);font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;\">Original story by Joe Strupp, Editor and Publisher<br \/>posted from mediapost.com<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>For newspapers, it increasingly looks like local is golden.<\/strong> A new National Newspaper Association survey found that 81% of respondents read a local weekly paper each week, and those readers spend an average of 40 minutes with the paper. About three-quarters say they read &#8220;most or all of&#8221; the publication. <\/p>\n<p>The NNA survey, co-sponsored by the Missouri School of Journalism, surveyed 500 adults. Researchers also found that readers, on average, share their paper with 2.36 others and nearly 40% keep their community newspaper more than a week.  <span class=\"fullpost\">Almost half say there are days they read the newspaper as much for the ads as for the news. <\/p>\n<p>How about online? Only 12% say they often read local news online. . . <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mediapost.com\/publications\/?fa=Articles.showArticle&#038;art_aid=115831\" >READ FULL STORY<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img width='1' height='1' src='https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/2745923954793947308-1380854047954315953?l=news.newspaperproject.org' alt='' \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Original story by Joe Strupp, Editor and Publisherposted from mediapost.com For newspapers, it increasingly looks like local is golden. A new National Newspaper Association survey found that 81% of respondents read a local weekly paper each week, and those readers spend an average of 40 minutes with the paper. About three-quarters say they read &#8220;most [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2709,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-640400","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2GB2","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/640400","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2709"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=640400"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/640400\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=640400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=640400"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=640400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}