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.
My local newspaper I actually delivered (poorly) for a summer, was the first paper that published Gary Larson’s ‘The Far Side’. Other than that…zippo