Midway All Year: Monitor Local Governments and Quickly Share Video Highlights With SeeGov
SeeGov collects and transcribes local government meetings
Zoom
Event Details
Local government coverage is essential and relentless. School board meetings that run four hours. City council votes buried in dense agendas. Video you know would perform, if only you had time to find, clip and post it.
In this session, journalists from small and mid-sized newsrooms will share how they've transformed their local government workflows.
You'll hear from:
Suzie Glassman, news innovation lead and senior education reporter at the Colorado Trust for Local News, who covers five school boards simultaneously.
Wes Platt, editor and publisher of Southpoint Access News, who has built a loyal Durham, NC audience through local government highlight reels and social posts.
You’ll also hear how one Substacker earns tens of thousands of Instagram views on short-form videos grabbed from local government meetings using SeeGov.
Speakers:
Alex Rosen is the founder and Executive Director of SeeGov, a nonprofit with a mission to expand thoughtful and consistent participation in democracy, starting with local government. He leads the organization in building technology that helps journalists and civic creators ensure residents are well-informed about their local governments, the issues shaping their community, and how their elected leaders govern. His work is driven by a career building businesses with emerging technology and a lifelong passion for strengthening democracy.
Suzie Glassman reports on education for the Colorado Trust for Local News, covering public schools in Jefferson, Adams and Weld counties. Her work blends policy insight with on-the-ground reporting, amplifying student, parent and educator voices that are too often overlooked in local conversations about funding, curriculum and equity. As news innovation lead, she’s focused piloting new technologies, facilitating innovation sprints and helping build a digitally focused growth mindset across the Trust's newsrooms.
Wes Platt is a longtime reporter and editor, first at The St. Petersburg Times and later at The Herald-Sun in Durham, who has written about everything from crime and courts to politics to land development to education. Now he’s focused on Southpoint Access, the ultra-local newsletter he founded to serve his community in South Durham, NC.
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