Romenesko

Boston Magazine
Joe Koehane says the Herald's indispensable in the sense that having two dailies creates a spirit of competition that benefits readers, but also in the sense that being undermanned and cash-strapped tends to make for livelier writing. "The underdog status that Herald reporters carry often devolves into an annoying victim complex, but just as often it inspires them to take some big swings at power and in general exhibit a slightly demented scrappiness that's mostly missing in modern print media, to its detriment."