Finding local news and content

Explains how to find things — the community feed and what leads it, searching, following people and publications, listening with narration, and the iPhone/Android apps. Use when someone asks how to find events, news, or people; why something is in their feed or why the feed looks like advertising; what "From Across My Local Press" means on a card; how search works; how to follow someone; how to listen instead of read; or whether there's a mobile app.

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    Open the community feed — everything happening in the area you're viewing Open

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    Use the search bar at the top to search content, people, and publications — or just ask it a question

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    Follow the people and publications you want more of

The community feed is the front door: everything happening in the area you're viewing — stories, events, classifieds, notices — newest first, free to browse.

Journalism leads it. Content that exists to sell something isn't removed or hidden. It runs at the pace ads run at, and paid placements carry an Ad label. That pacing is being rolled out now. Quieter towns also get reporting hand-picked from other communities, and every one of those cards says From Across My Local Press, with the place it came from when we know it. If something in your feed looks wrong, send it through the feedback form with a link to the piece and a person will look.

Search lives at the top of every page. Search for content, people, or publications — or just ask a question in plain words ("events this weekend", "who covers the school board?") and you'll be taken to what you asked for.

Follow the journalists and publications you trust; their feeds show only their own work, so following is how your reading becomes yours.

Listen if you'd rather not read — content here can carry spoken narration; see the voice narration guide for how it works.

On your phone: yes, there are real iPhone and Android apps — get the app. Same feed, same account, everything in your pocket.

Related: What is My Local Press?, Supporting journalists and advertising your business, How to print your paper