Student journalists come to the rescue of towns without a newspaper

Oct 21, 20190

Chloe Aftel – New York Times count

Katherina Sourine, one of The Michigan Daily's four city and government reporters, said "If we weren't covering it, no one would know what's going on," in Ann Arbor, Mich., Oct. 10, 2019. In the decade since the closure of The Ann Arbor News, student journalists at the Michigan Daily, University of Michigan's student newspaper, have scrutinized the city's police, power brokers and policymakers as the only paper in town.

ANN ARBOR, Mich. – Municipal committee meetings - the tedious minutiae of Ann Arbor's local governance - do not tend to draw a crowd. On a recent afternoon, Katherina Sourine was among only a few in attendance.

But Sourine, a University of Michigan senior, was there because she had to be. As one of four city and government reporters for Ann Arbor's sole daily newspaper, she had biked through a steady rain between classes to take notes on the city's plans for developing a new park.

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