Most days there’s nothing glamorous about working for The Daily News. Covering local news, as its reporters do, can mean sitting through hours of mind-numbing City Council hearings or leaving your family in the middle of the night to race to the scene of a shooting.

The other day at City Hall, home to New York’s political press corps, I listened as a Daily News reporter made endless phone calls to find the immigrant children whom the federal government had separated from their parents at the border and brought to New York City.

But for Daily News reporters, it’s the best job in the world because for them this is the best city in the world. They are evangelists for New York. Or were.

On Monday, word came that Tronc, the Chicago-based corporation that bought The News last year, had slashed its newsroom in half, laying off dozens of the best local journalists and ripping the heart and soul out of the 99-year-old tabloid, one of New York City’s greatest assets and fiercest defenders.