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[1] Many weekly newspapers in North America follow a similar format: News coverage usually focuses on local events such as car accidents or house fires, plus local government meetings, such as city councils or school boards, and police blotters.
Often, a sports reporter takes great ownership in a specific team and writes stories containing detailed accounts of games.
Family news pages include announcements of births, engagements, weddings, landmark birthdays and anniversaries, and obituaries.
In the past, correspondents often submitted stories along the lines of "Mr. and Mrs. John Jones had company from out-of-town last week",[citation needed] although these types of stories – commonly called "Neighborhood News" or some similar name – are largely a thing of the past.
The public-record section usually includes summaries of police-incident reports, fire-department calls and court dispositions (or, the outcome of a criminal proceeding).
Public notices typically fall into one of two categories: Laws in many US states dictate that a municipality or other government body must designate a newspaper of record.
Sometimes, they will consult with reporters on such things as double-checking facts, proofreading headlines and other copy, or writing cut-lines for photographs.
The pages can be placed on dummy sheets, burned to a CD-ROM or Zip disk, or sent to the printing press (either located at the newspaper office or an off-site publication plant) by e-mail or FTP site.
As well as full-time staff reporters and photographers, many weekly newspapers also employ correspondents (sometimes called stringers), often paid on a per-story rate.
The owner is the publisher who also performs advertising sales, writing, distribution, books, and other duties that may be required.
His wife, Candice, is an advertising saleswoman, his nine-year-old and four-year-old children are the insert stuffers, and they all are door-to-door subscription salespeople.
Generally speaking, the staff of corporate-owned chain weeklies do not have deep connections into the communities and do not prioritize accountability for local governments.
[4] The switch from locally owned weekly newspapers to corporate chains, which is often driven by the loss of advertising revenue, is associated with increases in taxes, reduced involvement by citizens in local government, fewer citizens voting in elections, more wasteful spending, and even higher levels of corruption.