When a national story breaks in your community   - American Press Institute

When a national story breaks in your community   - American Press Institute

When local is national When a major national story breaks in its town, a local news organization can tap a deep well of knowledge of its community, its people, its economy and geography. After the big papers and TV trucks have left, however, the work continues. And it’s not easy. This is a point Louis Amestoy, the editor and publisher of the Kerr County Lead, makes in Editor & Publisher this week. After the deadly flooding in Texas in July, he w…