New York's newspaper industry will survive the resignation of Howell Raines from the Times, and the humiliation today of yet another mammoth correction. However, a ranking of America's most literate cities may prove more difficult to live down. It's not so much that New York ranks 47th in the country; it's the identity of the town at the top of the table, Newark, which has the highest rate of newspaper circulation in the country. Residents of the New Jersey city are gripped by stories such as (from today's Star-Ledger) "Program produces new crop of teachers for urban schools."
America's most literate cities [University of Wisconsin-Whitewater]
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