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 - http://municipalequation.libsyn.com/ep-44-chief-storyteller Michael Grass, Route Fifty - https://www.govexec.com/voices/michael-grass/8755/ The Source - http://thesource.metro.net/2009/10/20/welcome-to-the-source/ By the Bay - http://bythebay.cool By the Bay featured in Editor and Publisher - https://www.editorandpublisher.com/columns/business-of-news-by-the-bay-dives-deep-to-explain-local-topics-and-elections/ Adweek coverage of The Source - https://www.adweek.com/digital/l-a-metro-launches-blog-local-transit-reporters-contribute/ "To Inform and to Serve," sampled on this episode - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nT5DtcPAjZ8