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Newszap.com is about community. Your town. Your local neighborhood. It is the most comprehensive and popular Internet site for and about each of the communities served by Independent’s newspapers.

Traffic is driven to newszap.com for news and information at 80+ (and growing!) community websites across four states. This is achieved by combining community-based information-gathering with the Internet's unique storage, sort, search, and interactive capabilities.

These town portals are a place where everyone can participate and have a voice, just as the First Amendment intended. The community websites are designed with the ambience of a friendly local coffee shop – where postings on a bulletin board direct visitors to interesting activities and local resources. Local citizens are invited to post their own news and photos from their lives, and share an opinion, if they are so inclined. Newszap.com is open 24 hours a day, seven days a week, and no one is constrained by deadlines, space limitations or someone else’s editing. Turnkey systems keep the site useful, updated, and always fresh.

Newszap.com delivers THE primary websites for anything related to the local community.

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FREE BUSINESS LINKS. Hometown businesses with a local presence are offered a free Local Business Website link as part of a business directory.

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FREE ZAPHOMES.COM. Local property listings from individual home buyers and sellers. Post free ads up to 1,500 words! (Currently available for Delaware and Maryland only.)

POST YOUR OPINIONS. Here one can sample an open, around-the-clock forum of community residents talking to one another. Users create their own topics, and local issues are often debated vigorously.

COMMUNITY LINKS. Here are comprehensive local links completely unique to each community website for reaching the local websites of civic groups, schools, teams, places of worship and columnists & blogger.

POST YOUR PUBLIC EVENT. Each community website page boasts two calendar links: a local community calendar AND another for state/regional events. Visitors can easily post announcements of upcoming events (up to a year in advance!), making these calendar a tremendous resource for both average citizens and event organizers.

POST YOUR PHOTOS. These exciting pages have been created for the local citizens who take photos at local events and are willing to share them with the community. Photos are often of high school sports contests, school activities, service club meetings, community festivals, and more.

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There’s also links for world and national news, stocks & travel guides, movies, TV listings, & entertainment information, white and yellow pages, maps and greeting cards, horoscopes & lottery results, even a page offering money saving coupons redeemable at local grocery stores.

Newszap.com & Independent Newspapers Inc. …

Newszap.com is, first and foremost, a community resource. It is fully supportive of, and an important supplement to, Independent’s newspaper network. The majority of newszap.com’s information is exclusive to the site, while most of Independent’s print content is available by home delivery or newsstand only.

Newszap.com is promoted heavily in Independent’s local print products and often is referenced in news articles. Tile and banner advertising, display print ads, and classified advertising also cross-promote newszap.com and the local newspaper.

Our Purpose…

Newszap.com is operated by Independent Newspapers, Inc. Independent is owned by a unique trust that enables the company to pursue a mission of journalistic service to the citizens of the community. Since no dividends are paid, the company is able to thrive on profit margins below industry standards. All after-tax surpluses are reinvested in Independent’s mission of journalistic service, commitment to the ideals of the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution, and support of the community’s deliberation of public issues.