Hyperlocal Journalism, 1980 Style

Worth reading is the profile The Somerville News ran on its founder and erstwhile publisher/editor Bob Publicover. Publicover, who has survived both AIDS and cancer founded the Somerville News in 1980 with a fussy, busybody style that had its apotheosis in a column he wrote chastising the mother for letting her child play in the street. Her kid had just been run over by a car. [Somerville News]

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