Stephen Crane knows some people think he’s out of his mind.
It’s July 2025, and he’s celebrating the second anniversary of his passion project: the Morgan County Correspondent, a weekly newspaper he started to provide coverage of his hometown county to the southwest of Indianapolis.
A county of 73,000 people with both suburban and rural enclaves, Crane couldn’t stand seeing the two papers in his community — the Gannett-owned Mooresville Times and the Reporter-Times — become ghost papers. So in 2023, he and eight other community members pooled their money together to start The Correspondent.
So why do people think he’s crazy?
In an age of countless digital startups, the Morgan County Correspondent prints every week.
