No. 28 of 48 — MEDIA
Illumination for the Nation
Who Keeps the Lights On After Midnight?
Not every newsroom in New Atlas goes dark when the final edition is put to bed. Across the city, small independent outfits are keeping decidedly unconventional hours, chasing late tips, pinning photographs to walls and occasionally discovering that three yards of red string can make almost anything look connected.
Their defenders call it persistence. Their critics prefer obsession. Either way, somebody has to decide which rumours deserve daylight and which ought to remain exactly where they were found. What’s that about dragons?