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Commonwealth News Service NIVERS AN AR Y Y 2010 annual report P P A E H Y A R S E C I P V U R E BL S IC NE WS ERSAR NNIV Y Y A PP A R S H A Y E 23 31 9 25 15 23 17 19 17 5 36 28 17 28 28 28 33 33 28 28 11 11 28 28 2 6 1 8 6 6 6 37 24 37 16 24 30 27 21 14 14 30 4 20 35 30 34 7 32 10 10 32 29 26 13 3 13 12 22 18 18 MEDIA OUTLETS City Map # Outlets City Map # Outlets City Map # Outlets Amherst 1 WFCR-FM (NPR Network Gardner 15 The Gardner News South Attleboro 29 WAQY-FM for Western MA) Great Barrington 16 WSBS-AM Athol 2 Athol Daily News Greenfield 17 WHAI-FM, WHMQ-AM, Springfield 30 WHYN-AM, WHYN-FM, Barnstable 3 WQRC-FM WPVQ-FM Min Street Trilogy Bellingham 4 Bellingham Bulletin Hyannis 18 The Barnstable Patriot, Cape Townsend 31 WCDJ-AM Beverly 5 WNSH-AM Cod Times Truro 32 WCDJ-FM, WRSI-FM Boston 6 WBUR-FM, WJMN-FM, Boston Manchester 19 Manchester Cricket Turner Falls 33 Montague Reporter, Neighborhood Network Marshfield 20 WATD-FM The Patriot Television, Fox25 Milford 21 WBSM-AM Webster 34 WNNZ-AM Brockton 7 WBET-AM New Bedford 22 iberkshire.com Westfield 35 Daily Times Chronicle Cambridge 8 WMBR-FM North Adams 23 WNAW-AM, WHMP-AM Woburn 36 WSRS-FM Dracut 9 Merrimack Journal Northampton 24 WLZX-FM, WNMH-FM Worcester 37 WTAG-AM, WVEI-AM East Longmeadow 10 Chicopee Herald Weekly, Northfield 25 WOCN-FM WHNP-AM Orleans 26 Ludlow Register Everett 11 WXKS-AM, WXKS-FM Palmer 27 Berkshire Eagle Fairhaven 12 WFHN-FM Pittsfield 28 WBEC-AM, WBEC-FM, Fall River 13 Anchor, Herald News WBRK-AM, WBRK-FM, Framingham 14 The MetroWest Daily News, WUHN-FM, WUPE-AM, WKOX-AM WUPE-FM, My Backyard Commonwealth News Service produced 91 news stories, which ran approximately 3,800 times on 40 radio stations, 19 print outlets, and 2 television stations for a total of 61 media outlets in Massachusetts and border states. Nationally, our stories were picked up by over 463 outlets, and shared on hundreds of websites including our own -- publicnewsservice.org, which generated over 13,000 views, alone. Arizona News Connection Illinois News Connection Missouri News Service North Carolina News Service Phoenix, AZ 34% Bloomington 40% Columbia 36% Charlotte-Gastonia 31% Tucson, AZ 13% Chicago 14% Fayetteville, AR 1% Chattanooga, TN 8% Additionally, 68 stations outside the major markets aired the stories. Decatur 18% Joplin 41% Fayetteville 15% Dubuque, IA 21% Kansas City 20% Greensboro-Winston-Salem 17% Big Sky Connection Evansville, IN 19% Marion-Carbondale, IL 1% Greenville-New Bern 6% Billings 39% LaSalle-Peru 2% Pittsburg, KS 18% Greenville-Spartanburg, SC 2% Great Falls 23% Marion-Carbondale 36% St. Louis 29% Knoxville, TN 1% Kalispell-Flathead Valley 22% Peoria 4% Additionally, 133 stations outside the major markets aired the stories. Myrtle Beach 2% Additionally, 112 stations outside the major markets aired the stories. Quad Cities 3% Raleigh-Durham, SC 49% Rockford 1% Rocky Mount-Wilson 28% California News Service St. Louis, MO 7% Wilmington 49% Additionally, 114 stations outside the major markets aired the stories. Additionally, 99 stations outside the major markets aired the stories. Bakersfield 22% Nevada News Service Chico 28% Las Vegas 21% Fresno 5% Reno 27% Los Angeles 20% Additionally, 55 stations outside the major markets aired the stories. Merced 19% Iowa News Service Oregon News Service Modesto 4% Cedar Rapids 32% Bend 57% Monterey-Salinas 19% Des Moines 19% New Hampshire News Connection Boise, ID 3% Oxnard-Ventura 14% Dubuque 41% Augusta-Waterville, ME 3% Eugene-Springfield 38% Redding 6% La Crosse, WI 2% Boston, MA 2% Las Vegas, NV 2% Riverside-San Bernardino 15% NUMBER OF STORIES | MEDIA OUTLET USAGE*LaSalle-Peru, IL 2% Concord (Lakes Region) 32% Medford-Ashland 51% Sacramento 20% Mason City 36% Lebanon-Rutland-White River Junction 17% Portland 19% San Diego 21% Totals 91 | 3,759 Quad Cities, IL 36% Lewiston-Auburn, ME 8% Tri-Cities, WA 2% San Francisco 19% Rochester, MN 2% Manchester 51% Additionally, 99 stations outside the major markets aired the stories. STORY BREAKOUTSan Jose 23% Sioux City 12% Montpelier-Barre St. Johnsbury, VT 3% Budget PolicySan & Luis Priorities Obispo 5% Budget Policy & Priorities 6 | 704 25 | 1,093 Waterloo-Cedar Falls 47% Portland, ME 5% Santa Barbara 39% Prairie News Service Children’sChildren’s Issues Issues 33 | | 117 321 Additionally, 155 stations outside the major markets aired the stories. Portsmouth-Dover 38% Bismark 79% Citizenship/RepresentativeConsumerSanta Maria-Lompo Democracy Issues 1 | 29102 12% Additionally, 38 stations outside the major markets aired the stories. Fargo-Moorhead 49% CriminalConsumerSanta Justice Issues Rosa 2 | 232 13% 9 | 376 Grand Forks 45% Early Childhood EducationEducationStockton 1 5% | 1325 | 235 Additionally, 76 stations outside the major markets aired the stories. Endangered SpeciesVictorEducation & Wildlife Valley 1 2 | 34 | 222 26% Kentucky News Connectioin New Mexico News Connection Energy Policy 2 | 70 Endangered SpeciesVisalia-Tula & Wildlifere 4% 9 | 1,005 Albuquerque 40% Environment 10 | 366 Bowling Green 15% Additionally, Energy98 stations Policy outside the major markets aired 8 the| 912 stories. Santa Fe 32% We rely on a wider variety Health Issues 27 | 1,081 Clarksville, TN 18% Te nnessee News Service Environment 18 | 2,052 Waco, TX of news sources than ever Human Rights/Racial Justice 1 | 32 Cookeville, TN 2% 3% Bowling Green, KY 5% Environmental Justice 2 | 236 before. Traditional media still Oceans 1 | 42 Evansville, IN 29% Additionally, 45 stations outside the major markets aired the stories. Chattanooga 41% Public Lands/WildernessHealth Issues 2 | 96 16 | 2,748 Huntington-Ashland, WV 4% Clarksville 18% provide news and information Human Rights/RacialSocial Justice Justice 1 | 42122 New York News Connection Colorado News Connection Lexington-Fayette 21% Cookeville 60% for a large majority of our Public Lands/WildernessWomen’s Issues 3 | 146 23 | 2,757 Albany-Schenectady-Troy Cheyenne, WY 63% Jackson, MS 3% 16 48% | 1,947 Louisville 22% population and social media Rural/Farming Binghamton 37% Colorado Springs 3 | 218 29% Nashville< TN 7% Johnson City-Kingsport 51% Social Justice Buffalo-Niagara Falls 28% has transformed our ability SustainableDenver-Boulder Agriculture 6 | 726 38% Parkersburg-Marietta, WV 14% Jonesboro, AR 6% Danbury, CT 8% to discover new stories and Fort Collins-GreeleyWater 1 | 123 49% Additionally, 104 stations outside the major markets aired the stories. Knoxville 25% Elmira-Corning 9% Women’s PuebloIssues 2 | 256 33% Memphis 29% interact with our audience. Hamptons-Riverhead 17% Additionally, 81 stations outside the major markets aired the stories. Nashville 21% Ithaca 43% Additionally, 50 stations outside the major markets aired the stories. Follow us on Twitter! Keystone State News Connection Middlesex-Somerset-Union 12% Allentown-Bethlehem 24% Monmouth-Ocean, NJ 5% twitter.com/pns_ CNS Market Share Information Virginia News Connection MA Commonwealth News Service Morristown, NJ 15% Altoona 20% Baltimore, MD 2% Boston 13% Nassau-Suffolk 32% Atlantic City, NJ 2% Charlottesville 61% Cape Cod 16% New York City 26% Like us on Facebook! Binghamton, NY 9% Frederick, MD 7% Hartford-New Britain, CT 3% Newburgh-Middletown 10% Erie 11% Greensboro-Winston-Salem, NC 1% facebook.com/ New Bedford-Fall River 20% Olean 37% Harrisburg-Lebanon 41% Harrisonburg-Chambersburg-Waynesborro, MD 1% publicnewservice Portsmouth-Dover, NH 5% Poughkeepsie 16% Johnstown 5% Harrisonburg 60% Providence, RI 7% Rochester 35% Lancaster 39% Johnson City-Kingsport, TN 5% Springfield 35% Stamford-Norwalk, CT 17% Find us on Google+ and Pittsburgh 25% Norfolk-Virginia Beach-Newport News 14% Worcester 26% Syracuse 51% other networks! Reading 25% Richmond 28% Additionally, 27 stations outside the major markets aired the stories. Sunbury-Selinsgrove-Lewisburg 26% Utica-Rome 23% Roanoke-Lynchburn 27% Trenton, NJ 9% Watertown 9% Additionally, 78 stations outside the major markets aired the stories. Wheeling, WV 2% Additionally, 70 stations outside the major markets aired the stories. Connecticut News Service Wilkes Barre-Scranton 27% Bridgeport Washington News Service 9% Williamsport 19% Danbury 19% Wilmington, DE 13% Seattle-Tacoma 11% Hamptons-Riverhead, NY Northern Rockies News Services 2% York 27% Spokane 34% Hartford-New Britain CNS 18% Additionally, 62 stations outside the major markets aired the stories. Bend, OR 10% Tri-Cities 36% Print OutletsNew Haven 19% 19 Boise Media Total 57% Yakima 28% Radio Stations 40 Outlet New London 23% Spokane, WA 46% Additionally, 76 stations outside the major markets aired the stories. TelevisionSpringfield, Stations MA 4% 2 61 Additionally, 57 stations outside the major markets aired the stories. Types Additionally, 52 stations outside the major markets aired the stories. Online — Stories live on 100s of news/bloggers/advocacy sites West Virginia News Service Beckley 50% Maine News Service Ohio News Connection Charleston 35% Florida News Connection Elkins-Buckhannon-Weston 20% Augusta-Watervile 2% Akron 21% Brunswick, GA 8% Hagerstown-Chambersburg-Waynesboro, MD 4% Bangor 59% Canton 29% Daytona Beach 19% Huntington-Ashland 54% Commonwealth News Service Portsmouth-Dover 2% Charleston 1% Public News Service Dothan, AL 4% Morgantown-Clarksburg-Fairmont 36% 888.891.9416 • fax 208.247.1830 888.320.9603 Additionally, 11 stations outside the major markets aired the stories. Cincinnati 62% Fort Myers-Naples 6% Parkersburg-Marietta 43% [email protected] [email protected] Cleveland 29% Pittsburgh, PA 2% Fort Pierce-Vero Beach 14% Columbus 31% www.publicnewsservice.org Wheeling 42% Fort Walton Beach 12% Dayton 44% Gainsville-Oscala 16% Additionally, 61stations outside the major markets aired the stories. Michigan News Connection Huntington-Ashland, WV 5% Jacksonville 30% Lima 47% Battle Creek 53% Lakeland-Winter Haven 24% Parkersburg-Marietta, WV 17% Wisconsin News Connection Melbourne-Titusville Detroit 31% 22% Toledo 32% Appleton-Oshkosh 30% Miami-Fort Lauderdale Flint 10% 11% Wheeling, WV 36% Dubuque, IA 5% Mobile, AL Grand Rapids 32% 5% Youngstown-Warren 49% Duluth-Superior, MN 24% Orlando Kalamazoo 38% 19% Additionally, 80 stations outside the major markets aired the stories.