Treasure Hunting for Cities With a Story to Tell
Nytimes reports that the Living In column on the Real Estate desk was relaunched last year to profile distinct locales across the country, offering a more digestible format for readers curious about what it’s like to live in a place. The column now typically opens with an impressionistic narrative and closes with a short list of practical things to know, a structure the editor, Michael Kolomatsky, says helps paint a portrait of a place without attempting an encyclopedic account in a few hundred words.
Kolomatsky said the team looks broadly at data but prioritizes finding an interesting peg for each story, and that they rely largely on local freelancers rather than flying reporters around the country; reporters are asked to convey what makes a place distinct within a compact piece.