Study Finds That Papers Lead In Providing New Information.

There are more places to go for local news but less news to find there, and the great majority of actual reporting still comes from newspapers, according to a study of the Baltimore area that is scheduled to be released on Monday. Looking at six major story lines that developed over one week last July, 83 percent of the reports in local news media ''were essentially repetitive, conveying no new information,'' said the study, by the Project for Excellence in Journalism, an arm of the Pew Research Center. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]