As many newspapers across the country are cutting their staffs and trimming back on Washington coverage, The Politico is finding younger journalists and some veterans — including John F. Harris and Jim VandeHei from The Washington Post, Mike Allen from
Hyper-Local Hero Ten years ago, Rob Curley was covering city hall for the Topeka daily paper. Now he's lighting up the entire industry. How a "nerd from Kansas" discovered the web, and hit the big time.
July 3, 2006. As local paper sales fall sharply in the US - and in the UK for that matter - and news organisations cut back on staff and coverage, a Chicago-based experiment in grassroots citizen journalism may be providing the model for how local news i