I work for smaller metro paper, Austin American-Statesman. There is some amateur(non-pejorative meaning) coverage of local news(a lot of it comes to us via twi

I work for smaller metro paper, Austin American-Statesman. There is some amateur(non-pejorative meaning) coverage of local news(a lot of it comes to us via twitter, our comments and blogs). There's the ubiquitous weekly paper that competes in the "where do I get drunk/laid" niche. But local (and Texas political) news is owned by us. esp in depth news. It's a small market and really no one else wants to compete. Local is the near-future of news organizations. Nationals are fucked.