[laughing_man]

Newspapers rely pretty heavily on wire services, which tend to have their own biases, but they do have reporters.

[Animats]

The Washington Post was one of the few remaining US newspapers with a large reporting staff scattered around the US and the world. That's why this is a loss. Thirty years ago, most major metropolitan newspapers had sizable local staffs and some national and international reporters. Now the New York Times is almost the only US newspaper with a large reporting staff.