Local Newspapers Are Vanishing. How Should We Remember Them?
As smaller newspapers shrink or disappear, it’s easy to romanticize the role they played. But one reporter’s memories of the heyday of local journalism reveal a much more complicated reality.
As smaller newspapers shrink or disappear, it’s easy to romanticize the role they played. But one reporter’s memories of the heyday of local journalism reveal a much more complicated reality.
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Graduated j-school on the last push of the post Watergate wave in the early ‘80s and worked with a number of thrice weekly papers as a columnist and feature writer.
Until they went on strike.
Then it was front page stories and dictating my copy over the phone to other college papers. There’s nothing like it. Thanks for this beautiful coverage of local news.