{"id":68067,"date":"2025-11-20T13:10:36","date_gmt":"2025-11-20T21:10:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/townhallseattle.org\/?post_type=tribe_events&#038;p=68067"},"modified":"2026-01-14T09:45:18","modified_gmt":"2026-01-14T17:45:18","slug":"speaking-of-seattle-2","status":"publish","type":"tribe_events","link":"https:\/\/townhallseattle.org\/event\/speaking-of-seattle-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Speaking of Seattle: Who Tells Seattle\u2019s Story? Local Media in a Broken News Economy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-67735\" src=\"https:\/\/townhallseattle.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Speaking-of-Seattle-300x150.png\" alt=\"&quot;Town Hall Seattle and The Stranger present: Speaking of Seattle&quot; logo\" width=\"300\" height=\"150\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Seattle loves to think of itself as an informed, engaged, \u201cI-read-the-footnotes\u201d kind of city. But what happens when the institutions we rely on to tell our stories are shrinking, consolidating, or vanishing altogether?<\/p>\n<p>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\u2014 and what it means for the future of civic life in Seattle. We\u2019ll dig into questions like:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Who gets covered, and who only shows up in the news when something goes wrong?<\/li>\n<li>What does it mean when neighborhoods lose beat reporters, but gain police press releases and political mailers?<\/li>\n<li>How are grassroots, BIPOC-led, and community media stepping in where legacy outlets have stepped back\u2014and what support do they actually need to survive?<\/li>\n<li>And how do everyday readers and listeners move from consuming the news to co-creating it?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Alongside Florangela Davila, of the <em>South Seattle Emerald<\/em>, Hannah Murphy Winter of <em>The Stranger<\/em>, and Naomi Ishisaka from <em>The Seattle Times<\/em>, 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.<\/p>\n<p>This won\u2019t be a nostalgia tour for the \u201cgood old days\u201d of print. It\u2019s a conversation about what comes next\u2014and how Seattle can choose a media ecosystem that serves people, not just profit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-67735\" src=\"https:\/\/townhallseattle.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Speaking-of-Seattle-300x150.png\" alt=\"&quot;Town Hall Seattle and The Stranger present: Speaking of Seattle&quot; logo\" width=\"300\" height=\"150\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Seattle loves to think of itself as an informed, engaged, \u201cI-read-the-footnotes\u201d kind of city. But what happens when the institutions we rely on to tell our stories are shrinking, consolidating, or vanishing altogether?<\/p>\n<p>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\u2014 and what it means for the future of civic life in Seattle. We\u2019ll dig into questions like:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Who gets covered, and who only shows up in the news when something goes wrong?<\/li>\n<li>What does it mean when neighborhoods lose beat reporters, but gain police press releases and political mailers?<\/li>\n<li>How are grassroots, BIPOC-led, and community media stepping in where legacy outlets have stepped back\u2014and what support do they actually need to survive?<\/li>\n<li>And how do everyday readers and listeners move from consuming the news to co-creating it?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Alongside Florangela Davila, of the <em>South Seattle Emerald<\/em>, Hannah Murphy Winter of <em>The Stranger<\/em>, and Naomi Ishisaka from <em>The Seattle Times<\/em>, 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.<\/p>\n<p>This won\u2019t be a nostalgia tour for the \u201cgood old days\u201d of print. It\u2019s a conversation about what comes next\u2014and how Seattle can choose a media ecosystem that serves people, not just profit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":68212,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_tribe_events_status":"","_tribe_events_status_reason":"","_tribe_events_is_hybrid":"","_tribe_events_is_virtual":"","_tribe_events_virtual_video_source":"","_tribe_events_virtual_embed_video":"","_tribe_events_virtual_linked_button_text":"","_tribe_events_virtual_linked_button":"","_tribe_events_virtual_show_embed_at":"","_tribe_events_virtual_show_embed_to":[],"_tribe_events_virtual_show_on_event":"","_tribe_events_virtual_show_on_views":"","_tribe_events_virtual_url":"","footnotes":""},"tags":[],"tribe_events_cat":[55],"class_list":["post-68067","tribe_events","type-tribe_events","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tribe_events_cat-civics","cat_civics"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/townhallseattle.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/68067","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/townhallseattle.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/townhallseattle.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/tribe_events"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/townhallseattle.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/townhallseattle.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/68067\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/townhallseattle.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/68212"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/townhallseattle.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68067"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/townhallseattle.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68067"},{"taxonomy":"tribe_events_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/townhallseattle.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events_cat?post=68067"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}