Successive generations of conglomeration, contraction, disruption and atomization have left serious gaps in local coverage everywhere in the news media. For Detroit and Los Angeles — media-rich centers with divergent but analogous local news deficits — the city itself is stepping into the breach, experimenting with “government journalists.”
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Speakers
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Tracie Powell
Senior Fellow, Democracy Fund
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Aaron Foley
Chief Storyteller, City of Detroit Government
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Aparna Mukherjee
FUSE Fellow, FUSE Corps, City of Los Angeles
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Moderator
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Niala Boodhoo
Host, Executive Producer, The 21st
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