EP 51 - City Hall Beat

The local media landscape is pretty fluid right now: extinct or shrunken newspapers, online-only outlets, freshly grown media entities that may or may not be objective. What's all this mean for local government? Is a reliable, objective media purely about watchdog dynamics? What about when local government needs to get its messages out? What happens when the local government IS the news source? It's too big a topic to solve on a podcast episode, but it's worth the talk. Episode 44: Chief Storyteller - Michael Grass, Route Fifty - The Source - By the Bay - By the Bay featured in Editor and Publisher - Adweek coverage of The Source - "To Inform and to Serve," sampled on this episode -