Welcome to NY News Feed

In a converted storefront on Main Street, four reporters share two long tables, a coffee machine and a police scanner that has not been switched off in three years.

They are part of a quiet movement. Across the country, small newsrooms funded by readers, foundations and local businesses are filling gaps left by the collapse of regional papers.

A different kind of business

The model is simple: cover what nobody else will. School board budgets. Zoning hearings. The slow negotiation over a new water treatment plant.

"People don't need us to tell them what happened in Washington," says the editor. "They need to know why their property tax bill went up."

What comes next

Whether these outlets can survive the next downturn remains an open question. But for now, the scanner is still on, and someone is still listening.

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