With all that’s being written about the economy and the current struggle of mainstream media, the plight of what we’re looking at really hit home this week.
Part of our business has long been to help clients find their way into articles in the media. During the past week, among many clients with stories to be placed in the media is Birchez Associates, an affordable home developer. They held a ground breaking ceremony attended by a host of community leaders from Rep. Maurice Hinchey (D-N.Y.) to our new, and first, county administrator Mike Hein. The event was well attended, covered by two local media reporters, a pre-event radio talk show and a post-event radio/print news interview on the Mid Hudson News network. All good and more reports being developed.
During all this our inveterate media director Sandy Frinton fed back some sad news. A regional weekly and magazine publisher, the Taconic Press was rumored to be closing down. It did! A regional television network said it was no longer covering stories across the region. Word came down that one of our daily newspapers and a regional business journal (not the same ownership) are close to being shuttered.
For all the complaints any of us may have about the local-regional media, even worse is the prospect of having none!
Tags: Hudson Valley, Mainstream media
Maybe as Alexis Madrigal and Sarah Rich suggest in the Huffington Post (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/alexis-madrigal-and-sarah-rich/the-wiki-thats-building-a_b_170327.html ), we’ll need to start a regional news wiki. I’d miss the papers.