I’m a child of New York City. I grew up reading The Times in Brooklyn, where I paged through the print newspaper every morning, starting with the weather page and its agate-type listings of temperatures in cities around the world, then moving on to news, to arts coverage, to obituaries and sports. (I flipped through tabloid newspapers on the subway to school. No phones then to distract!) It made me into a news omnivore, someone who delights in finding bits of deliciousness and surprise in the journalism I inhale. (I suspect that may describe you as well.) It made me...