i love this. pasting what i've already said to others: he'll be running a local magazine, not as well known as the radio show and probably much more controversial because he tries to print everything, especially gossip. so he will kind of have a reputation for being the resident busybody who always knows everything about everyone because he goes prying into peoples' business and loves to write about them. he's lived in rockfield his entire life though, so anything weird going on is totally normal to him, and his writing is less about the current events and more about who is dating who, who ran into trouble with the law, etc and he responds with utter confusion if someone remarks on the latest goings on in town being an unusual occurrence
he 100% interviews your guy and paints him as the local crazy for his (legitimate) conspiracy theorist ways