Farewell To Fisher

Marc Fisher is changing jobs at the WaPo and you'll no longer have his doggedly determined columns to look forward to or his always entertaining blog for that matter. Fisher will be running a new experimental local news team within the Post, it remains to be seen how this stab at local coverage will work out but as City Paper points out you don't just take your number one local columnist out of print without intending to put him to use elsewhere (insert your own joke about newspaper downsizing here) so hopefully things will go with the project.

It should at least be something worth watching especially considering all of the talk and concern of late over the future of local news and reporting in the face of increasingly hard times for local papers. I'd offer that this is an area where blogs may well be able to step in to the gap quite readily. The ist family of blogs already does a ton of local coverage, although they are often directing readers to local papers content if that content didn't exist would the ists be able to step and create it or would the papers take them down as collateral damage?

Only time will tell.

While you're waiting go read Fisher's farewll column.