From Boerum Hill, Brooklyn, to Wichita, Kansas, e-mail newsletters are bringing local media back. “Some of these digital pamphlets provide terse, functional updates while others act as the successors to bygone alt-weeklies, covering cultural happenings and carrying out local-interest investigations,” Kyle Chayka (@kchayka) writes. “What these projects have in common is a desire to fight back against two forces: the disintegration of local media and the impersonality of the algorithmic internet, which aims content at the widest possible audience.” Chayka writes about the newsletters that are finding success by going narrow but deep: www.newyorker.com/culture/infinite-scroll/...