On my first day as a newspaper reporter in England in the 1980s I was told by my editor to "just go out and find a story". I was working in a team of three journalists who had been given the job of setting up a new edition of the paper and to do that we had to find lots of compelling local stories. In those days not only was there no internet but there were also no computers (at least not in the Kirky-in-Ashfield office of the Evening Post) so to find a story you had the telephone, the phone bo