In early 2025, The Portland Press Herald stopped running nationally syndicated op-eds and started focusing solely on the state of Maine. The Maine Trust for Local News also created a single Opinion and Letters section to serve all of its daily papers, giving top priority to Letters to the Editor and op-ed submissions that have a local or statewide focus.
The result? Within six months, web visits to opinion stories or letters were up by 63%, with more than 300 new subscribers converted from the digital opinion section.
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