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Report: Readers trust newspapers more than TV, social media for public notices

By Mark McCormick

The Newspaper Manager

America’s Newspapers just released its 2023 Local Newspaper Study, not only highlighting how news consumption and readers have changed but, as America’s Newspapers CEO Dean Ridings puts it, also “measuring the difference local newspapers make.”

First, the big numbers. 218 million Americans access their local newspapers every month, using as their platform the website (67%), followed by social media (59%) then the daily / Sunday paper, the…