Hot Seat: Media Monday “Justice for Robert Brooks Rally” with Shana Dahlin 1-13-25

Hot Seat: Media Monday “Justice for Robert Brooks Rally” with Shana Dahlin 1-13-25 By Ron Klopfanstein, with photography and reporting by Brian Lazore, sound engineering by Jonathan Brooks “DJ J-Easy,” and in-studio recording and photography by James Hale. In this Hot Seat: Media Monday, Shana Dahlin, an organizer for the Central New York chapter of Citizen Action and one of the organizers of Saturday’s “Justice for Robert Brooks” rally in Utica, discusses the event and advocacy efforts to protect the rights of people who are inmates in the New York State Department of Corrections. Robert Brooks was an incarcerated person at the Marcy Correctional Facility who was beaten to death by corrections officers on December 9th. Citizen Action of Central New York is online at Facebook.com/CitizenActionCNY, Instagram.com/citizenactioncny/, and Citizenactionny.org. Also, in the studio, photographer/videographer/podcaster Brian Lazore joins host Ron Klopfanstein to discuss the concerns and challenges of covering sensitive issues in the media. Ron Klopfanstein and Brian Lazore covered the event for 95.5 FM “The Heat,” and audio clips from their reports air throughout the broadcast.  Ron Klopfanstein is an award-winning multimedia investigative journalist, news and features editor, and creative content producer for the Utica Phoenix digital platform and 95.5 FM “The Heat” broadcast and streaming. He also hosts Hot Seat: Media Monday every Monday at 5 pm, broadcast on 95.5 FM and streaming at 955TheHeat.com. Like him at Facebook.com/ReadRonKlopfanstein, Follow him at Threads.net/@RonKlopfanstein, Instagram.com/RonKlopfanstein, Tiktok.com/@ronklopfanstein, Twitter.com/RonKlopfanstein, and subscribe to his channel at YouTube.com/@RonKlopfanstein. Read all his work at Muckrack.com/ron-klopfanstein. NOW at BLUESKY Bsky.app/profile/ronklopfanstein.bsky.social