Only local news stations and publications with their boots-on-the-ground coverage can provide the facts on what’s happening in your neighborhood beyond national headlines and weather forecasts. That’s why millions of people still tune in every day to the morning news. Yet viewership has declined for traditional news media and in turn, so have profits - and local stations having been hit the hardest. Whatever budget left is invested in the daytime news cycle. But newsworthy incidents also happen at night. And since the usual anchors, reporters, journalists, and cameramen all need to sleep, who’s covering these breaking stories at night? The answer is nightcrawlers. While news stations capture the stories of the day, nightcrawlers hunt for the stories of the night. You see their footage on broadcast and social media, but never their faces, voices or names. Beyond a tiny watermark, they get no credit or recognition.