The message from readers recently completing Salem Reporter’s survey is clear: Give us more.

Salem, we heard you.

Our team continues to consider the results. I’ve been looking at them over and over. They will strongly guide our work in the year ahead. More on that in a moment.

Each year, we ask readers to help. We publish an online survey that rates the importance of news topics. We ask for suggestions on what else to cover. And we invite readers to tell us how to improve Salem Reporter.

More than 600 people completed the survey. On average, readers gave us about 10 minutes of their time to weigh in. They ranked topics from 1 to 5.

The results confirm our reporters are on the right track. We devote our resources already to most issues rating highest with readers. The Top 5 in importan

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