Can Local Media Survive?

The Brian Lehrer Show | Dec 18, 2017

Now that Gothamist and DNAinfo are dead, Liena Zagare, publisher and editor at BKLYNER, talks about what it will take for local media to survive in an increasingly hostile economic climate. 

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