New York's Local News Landscape
Azi Paybarah, journalist and co-host of the new podcast FAQ NYC, and Harry Siegel, Daily News columnist, Daily Beast senior editor, Brooklyn College adjunct professor and co-host of FAQ NYC (their third co-host is Fordham University political science professor Christina Greer), discuss the staff cuts at the Daily News and why they matter.
Plus: Alicia Shepard, USA Today contributor, media analyst and a former ombudsman for NPR, talks about the national picture for local news.
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@harrysiegel points out the local news business is not a healthy business. Google and Facebook sopped up all the revenue that used to make it work. At a lot of meetings that local news used to cover...there are just no reporters there.
— Brian Lehrer Show (@BrianLehrer) July 25, 2018
On what's lost with the Daily News layoffs (+ other local news cutting staff or going out of business)... @Azi says people lose their sense of community...they lose their sense of what's happening around them.
— Brian Lehrer Show (@BrianLehrer) July 25, 2018
@Azi: In NYC, if you don't have sustained local reporting, things happen in courtrooms that no one notices...things happen in meetings that don't get recorded.
— Brian Lehrer Show (@BrianLehrer) July 25, 2018
@Ombudsman ends on a hopeful note. "The news industry was so late in capitalizing on how to make money off of the Internet," but she says she's optimistic about the future -- that news orgs will be able to adjust.
— Brian Lehrer Show (@BrianLehrer) July 25, 2018
