Old media must make way for new media landscape

First of a three-part series America’s tradition of impactful pamphleteer activism is more than alive and well. It has never been easier for individuals to build their own seats at the table, forcing the top-down cultures of industrial media to confront their own inadequacies and acknowledge (only after kicking and screaming) the newcomers’ contributions.

Name a subject that dominant city newspapers have walked away from covering intensely — statehouse politics, high school sports, local crime — and you’ll find some entrepreneurial characters filling the void with gusto.