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Joshua BentonJune 28, 2022

For print newspapers, one Florida retirement community is a better market than Atlanta, St. Louis, or Portland

For local newspapers, print circulation has collapsed for every audience except retirees. That’s why the daily paper in The Villages, Florida (metro population 129,752) prints as many copies as the one in Atlanta (metro population 6,930,423).

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Benton, Joshua. "For print newspapers, one Florida retirement community is a better market than Atlanta, St. Louis, or Portland." Nieman Journalism Lab. Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard, 28 Jun. 2022. Web. 23 Jul. 2024.

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Benton, J. (2022, Jun. 28). For print newspapers, one Florida retirement community is a better market than Atlanta, St. Louis, or Portland. Nieman Journalism Lab. Retrieved July 23, 2024, from https://www.niemanlab.org/2022/06/for-print-newspapers-one-florida-retirement-community-is-a-better-market-than-atlanta-st-louis-or-portland/

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Benton, Joshua. "For print newspapers, one Florida retirement community is a better market than Atlanta, St. Louis, or Portland." Nieman Journalism Lab. Last modified June 28, 2022. Accessed July 23, 2024. https://www.niemanlab.org/2022/06/for-print-newspapers-one-florida-retirement-community-is-a-better-market-than-atlanta-st-louis-or-portland/.

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