Still thinking a lot about this @ezraklein interview of @Sulliview re: crisis of local news: https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9mZWVkcy5tZWdhcGhvbmUuZm0vdGhlZXpyYWtsZWluc2hvdw/episode/NDBkMDdjZTYtMTU0OS0xMWVhLTk0MmYtMGZiMTlhMDNmMmM3?hl=en&ved=2ahUKEwiWzsXwoPDqAhURsJ4KHe0gAfMQieUEegQIBBAG&ep=6

My brother and I were talking the other day about what made (and continues to make) our hometown paper, @LewistonTribune, feel not just *good* but a must-read, even enjoyable. And as @ezraklein pointed out, it's not the more investigative stuff

The feature we both vividly remember: this reporter would take the phone book for the pretty large region served by the paper, pick a phone number at random, and then write a story about that person, no matter who they were

I would wake up every morning in jr. high and HS and look to see my friends names in the sports section. I loved the Friday Entertainment section w/stories about the tiny bands coming through. I loved Sunday AM, which is just big, beautiful pictures of the area.

And I think so many funding orgs, non-profits, awards boards sometimes miss the point that what makes local news feel vital — & induces support for the investigative stuff — is all that very local, supposedly low-brow stuff. But it's hard to write a grant for that.