The communities you can never forget
I spoke to Michael MacLeod for Substack about a topic very close to my heart: community-first stories, new media models, and the incredibly promising future of local news
The year I graduated from journalism school as a newspaper reporter was the year regional news, as we knew it, died.
It was 2008, the middle of the “Great Recession;” subeditors were being fired in droves, media lords were decrying the lost art of investigative news (and long boozy lunches), and journalism conferences were fixated on the threat of the ‘c…