This week, Charles and Corey are joined by local news director Patti McGettigan, the news director at WOOD-TV in Grand Rapids, Michigan.
Patti stopped by to chat about the changing landscape of local journalism, the role of social media in a broadcast newsroom, the pressures of the bottom line, journalistic integrity and the smaller, more efficient newsrooms of the future.
Patti has worked for years with White House correspondent Helen Thomas’ niece Suzanne Geha in Grand Rapids. This week, Thomas took White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs to task. Later she told CNN that not even the Nixon administration tried to control the press to the extent President Obama has.
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