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The Return of the Local Correspondent

Readers are rediscovering the value of reporting produced close enough to notice what changed.

Distance can sharpen perspective, but it can also flatten a place into the story outsiders expect to find there.

The local correspondent notices the new bus route, the renamed committee and the business that never reopened after winter.

That accumulation of specific knowledge is not provincial. It is one of journalism’s most portable forms of authority.