Speaking of Seattle: Who Tells Seattle’s Story? Local Media in a Broken News Economy
Seattle loves to think of itself as an informed, engaged, “I-read-the-footnotes” kind of city. But what happens when the institutions we rely on to tell our stories are shrinking, consolidating, or vanishing altogether?
Join Marcus Harrison Green with Florangela Davila, Hannah Murphy Winter, and Naomi Ishisaka for a candid, no-spin conversation about the state of local media— and what it means for the future of civic life in Seattle. We’ll dig into questions like:
-Who gets covered, and who only shows up in the news when something goes wrong?
-What does it mean when neighborhoods lose beat reporters, but gain police press releases and political mailers?
-How are grassroots, BIPOC-led, and community media stepping in where legacy outlets have stepped back—and what support do they actually need to survive?
-And how do everyday readers and listeners move from consuming the news to co-creating it?
Alongside Florangela Davila, of the South Seattle Emerald, Hannah Murphy Winter of The Stranger, and Naomi Ishisaka from The Seattle Times, Marcus will explore how we rebuild trust in news, fund coverage that actually reflects our communities, and resist the slide into a city where the loudest voices are the best-funded ones.
This won’t be a nostalgia tour for the “good old days” of print. It’s a conversation about what comes next—and how Seattle can choose a media ecosystem that serves people, not just profit.
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