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    The Locally Engaged subscribe because they care about the community

    The Locally Engaged are a group keenly interested in content about the community and its institutions, and they want to be engaged and informed locally. [...]

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    Social Media-Mobile Discoverers subscribe after high-quality engagement on digital platforms

    Social Media-Mobile Discoverers are subscribers who engage with the newspaper and its journalists on social media and read the paper on mobile devices. They get [...]

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    Journalism Advocates subscribe to support a free press

    Journalism Advocates are motivated by wanting to support journalism, and for many, their immediate trigger to subscribe was either a concern about verbal attacks on [...]

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    Methodology

    This survey was conducted by the Media Insight Project, an initiative of the American Press Institute (API) and The Associated PressNORC Center for Public Affairs [...]

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    Life Changers subscribe because they just moved or changed jobs

    Life Changers as a group decide to subscribe because of a transition in their own circumstances, not because of something the newspaper itself recently did. [...]

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    Coupon Clippers subscribe to get print coupons and save money

    Coupon Clippers are pretty self-explanatory—these people decided to pay for the newspaper at least in part because they value the coupons they can cut out [...]

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    Print Fans subscribe because they love relaxing with a paper

    The Print Fans often like the “experience” of a printed newspaper. In their open-ended descriptions, they talk about sitting with the paper and having their [...]

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    ‘Friends and Family’ subscribers need news to support relationships with people

    The Friends and Family group subscribed because they found the publication through their loved ones and, in some cases, saw it as a way to [...]

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    Appendix 1: Respondents’ demographics and news behaviors

    The set of respondents to this study include newspaper subscribers from 47 states plus the District of Columbia. Most of these subscribers live in suburban [...]

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    Appendix 2: Analytical Definitions of Paths

    Digital Paywall Converters There are 857 Digital Paywall Converters. The path is defined by two elements: 1) Have a digital or bundled subscription; and either [...]

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