Bye Bye Bureaus

“These days, all the major bureaus have space they’re renting out. We’ve all become landlords looking for subtenants,” says Condon, who was bureau chief when he accepted a buyout from the company, which closed the bureau after the presidential election.

“The real tragedy is that as more newspapers cut back, you’re not going to have anybody watching the congressional delegation,” he says. “In our case, we’re sure that there’s a certain former congressman who’s sitting in prison in Arizona who has got to be saying to himself, ‘Why didn’t Copley do this two years ago?’ Because he’d still be in Congress and he’d still be drawing millions in bribes.”