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Panel on media coverage of state government, Sept. 18On Thursday, Sept. 18 at 5 p.m., Wagner College’s Hugh L. Carey Center for Government Reform will hold a panel discussion on “How the News Media Covers (or Doesn’t Cover) New York State Government.” This discussion will take place on the college’s Grymes Hill, Staten Island campus in Spiro Hall, Room 4. The public is invited. Gene I. Maeroff, senior fellow at the Hechinger Institute at Columbia University’s Teachers College and former national education correspondent for the New York Times, will moderate the discussion. The panel will include:
Advertising revenue is down. Newspapers are closing bureaus and laying off reporters. Ratings races push network and cable TV news programs to chase drama and sound bites. New York City is the hub of our nation’s communications industries, but New York’s state capital in Albany is far away — and the state’s decisions are made behind closed doors. The legislative process is not, in itself, particularly dramatic — yet millions of New Yorkers face dramatic changes in their lives as their lawmakers struggle to reduce a record budget gap and drastically cut essential services. How did this happen? You might be hard-pressed to know from what you’ve read, seen or heard through downstate New York’s news outlets. On Thursday, Sept. 18, the Hugh L. Carey Center for Government Reform will host a panel of three prominent New York City media figures to explore the ins and outs of how New York State government is covered — or isn’t covered — and what it means for getting Albany back on track so that New Yorkers have an open, responsive and affordable government. The public is invited to this panel discussion. For more information, please contact Susan Rosenberg, 718-390-3464, srosenbe@wagner.edu.
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