> communities across the country have complained that journalists who come into their towns and cities too often produce shallow or misrepresentative reporting.

> communities across the country have complained that journalists who come into their towns and cities too often produce shallow or misrepresentative reporting. <p> Local journalists who know their hometowns could report the same stories more accurately and with more depth, they say. "[C]ommunities have complained that journalists [...] produce shallow or misrepresentative reporting." That should sound familiar here. Communities which include science, and tech, and aerospace, and medicine, and economics, and military, and ... so many other communities. Journalists embedded in those communities often get things right. Journalists which aren't, often don't. The current issue of CJR https://www.cjr.org/tag/fall-2018 https://www.cjr.org/tag/fall-2018 is subtitled "The stories left untold in America's newsrooms". It's focused on race, with some class and ethnicity, but one article describes the corps remaining oblivious overseas, even in a country (Korea) that still has foreign desks. Even the best of mainstream journalism's coverage of science and engineering feels like overseas coverage after foreign desks have closed. Missing sanity check, ground truth, nuance, insight, the point, and the real story. So if the https://shoeleather.us/ https://shoeleather.us/ approach succeeds in disrupting newsroom coverage of small geographic communities, the potential impact seems much broader.