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PNC-Minnesota began about five months ago (we had five initial posts in July). We believe we have had a substantial impact within our community, region, and nationally.  Our readership is mainly Pagan, but our audience ranges the whole spectrum based on subject. We have had just over 99,000 page views since we began on July 28th, 2010

Our top viewed post with 12, 542 views in one day on Nov. 9th, (   Rape Survivor Devastated by TSA Enhanced Pat Down by Cara Schulz ), has completely skewed our stats, but that is the nature of the internet.   Cara saw an emerging issue, and knew the additional impact it could have for victims of assault and jumped on the story. National blogs (including mainstream news like ‘Newsweek‘ and even Wikipedia ) linked to her article and resulted in that one post generating 84% of our page views this year!  Cara’s past media experience and her  ‘nose for news’ that she brought to PNC-Minnesota has been invaluable. Cara also writes for PNC’s Pagans and Politics.

That widespread exposure for PNC-Minnesota has resulted in an expanded readership ever since.  Cara’s article statistics is equivalent to hitting the lottery for a news blog. We have developed a solid base of reporting and authors since our beginning, and have been given a large boost because of the national attention of this article.

Diana Rajchel – Reporter  wrote the Celtic Temple Article
Susu Jeffrey – Editorialist has written about a Hawk release, a Native Pow-Wow, and Coldwater Spring
Jenna Touchette – Photojournalist has been supplying photos for TC events

JRob Zetelumen – Reporter – Editorialist has provided article content and Paganistan Weekly

Nels Linde -Editor,  has written our most well read editorial, Pagan’s Hunting, and many others.

Heather Biedermann, Webmistress has kept us up and running (even with 12k hits in one day!) and often managed our many reader comments.

We have published 118 Posts in 20 weeks, about six stories per week on average. Our readers have responded with 296 Comments.  In December , our statistics have settled down a bit, but are still averaging 285 page views a day, really respectable for even a well established main stream internet news service! We have become the national example of what Jason Pitzl-Waters envisioned; a locally based Pagan news service generating national stories of interest in support of a (future) national Pagan news service. A solid source for Pagan viewpoint reporting for a mainstream, and Pagan audience.

We at PNC-Minnesota have learned a lot this year. We believe listening to our hearts, your comments, and the world around us… and then writing as clearly and consistently as we can has made the difference. Besides tooting our own horn a bit, we want your continued support. You reading,  subscribing, and following our stories helps knit this community together in ways we probably won’t fully understand for several years. We hope this report of our first year’s progress will inspire you to also join us, and  contribute your thoughts, writing, and comments.

A whole new year of growth awaits, JOIN PNC-Minnesota !

About the stats below….  I have removed all the total page view statistics for our blog information pages, our ‘home page’,  and Paganistan weekly (which gets regular hits each week). We  get many hits to our ‘home page’, but I figured if you clicked ‘Read more’ to read the whole article you were added to that articles statistics. Each article gets more views with time, so older posts have a slight edge. What I see as really interesting is that the whole range of our reporting is represented with readers page views;  hard ‘news’ , local events, editorials, and Pagan focused ‘human interest’ stories.

The article links are all hot, so here’s a chance to click and see what you missed, read what has been well read, and read what you missed or was under read, and stories you just might want to check out now.