While each of these may have a local office in the town it served, the local staffs may be very small. All of the typesetting, layout, and printing may be done at the headquarters location. The publisher provides a lucrative market for a freelancer who travels the entire state. Just about every town passed through is a source of photographs for one of these weekly newspapers. It's in these community newspapers that the freelance photographer has access to some of his best customers.
Weeklies are family publications.
They cover local citizens from birth to death and everything in betweendance school recitals, Little League ball teams, school activities, graduations, engagements, marriages, business successes and promotions. And in each of these milestones of life, there's a job possibility for the freelance photographer. Most advertisers in weekly newspapers are small businesses, small businesses that need photographs from time to time. Every one of them is a potential customer. Exposure is the key to success for the freelance photographer.