“The regional papers around here don’t pay attention to a little town like this, and the one local paper that was covering us pulled back and stopped covering our area. “It wasn’t much of a newspaper to begin with, but when that thing closed down, it really left us with nothing,” says Sullivan. Sullivan is director of the Weare Public Library, where he-with some help from his fellow librarians- produces Weare in the World, a weekly publication that aims to fill part of the void left when the quarterly Weare Community News, shuttered in October 2016. Sullivan considers stepping in when a local news outlet is missing part of the public library’s duties to serve its patrons Rather, he’s a librarian-just one who happens to run the only publication dedicated to covering his town and its 8,966 residents. (The one thing he doesn’t do is photography.)īut Sullivan is quick to tell anyone who asks: he’s no journalist. Michael Sullivan is de facto publisher and editor in chief as well as reporter, layout designer, crosswords creator, printer, and deliveryman. Pool In Weare, New Hampshire, a small town about 45 minutes from the state’s southern border with Massachusetts, the local newspaper is largely a one-man show.
Erik Jonsson Central Library in Dallas in 2017 Student Brianna McCain listens as Dallas Mayor Mike Rawlings answers questions from high school students participating in Storytellers Without Borders program conducted by The Dallas Morning News and the Dallas Public Library at the J.
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