Review signals only. Review signals, not findings. Nothing here is an assessment.
From review signals only, 18 Oct 2026.
The store currently lists version 11.1.18, updated 2026-09-08.
Store screenshots supplied by the developer.
The State newspaper app delivers trusted local journalism serving Columbia, Richland County, Lexington County, and communities across the South Carolina Midlands.
Stay informed with daily local news coverage focused on the issues affecting residents in Columbia, Richland County, and Lexington County, including crime, weather, local business, sports, and community developments shaping life across the Midlands.
The State newspaper is your source for local, daily news from Columbia and surrounding Midlands communities. Our newsroom reports on events and decisions impacting Richland and Lexington counties, with local investigative reporting, statewide coverage, and national headline news.…
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The evidence, sources, measurements and versions behind every label above.
No recurring theme reached our reporting threshold in the reviews we scanned.
102 reviews scanned. These are signals from public reviews, not findings. Nothing here is an assessment.
No recurring theme reached our reporting threshold in the reviews we scanned. That does not establish that reviewers had no problems.
Supporting measurements. They are not a complete list of possible harms or positives. “Not assessed” means we could not measure it — never zero, never a pass.
No package has been scanned for this app, so nothing is published about what it ships. That is an absence of evidence, not a finding.
Measurement vocabulary 1.4 · how these are measured
Review signals only. No automated analysis of the app itself has been run, so there is no analysed version to report; the signals were read from public reviews on 18 Oct 2026.
Each store’s release notes, as the developer wrote them. They are the developer’s words, not ours.
This hotfix addresses background issues with analytics event tracking and privacy prompt handling, plus improves how app installs are recorded.
• Support for blockquotes on articles • Adds support for article list HTML links • Push notification permission request delayed to News tab • Other minor bug fixes and performance improvements
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