Washington correspondent Scott MacFarlane on independent journalism & the importance of local news
Screenshot of Scott MacFarlane's appearance on local Milwaukee radio .
By Scott MacFarlane for 620 WTMJ, Wisconsin's Midday News
WASHINGTON — Veteran Washington Correspondent discusses his pivot to independent journalism and his new job working for new media company Meidas Touch with local Milwaukee radio hosts.
Noting that since he recently left CBS and signed with Meidas Touch, the breaking news videos he’s producing are now seen by an audience of 6 million people way outside the Washington Beltway.
“That’s more than the CBS Evening News had — no disrespect to a great show — but that’s where the people are,” MacFarlane tells the Milwaukee audience. “You gotta go where the people are for news.”
Source: Youtube — veteran Washington correspondent Scott MacFarlane on why he left CBS to work with The LCB, Meidas Touch and other independent journalists.
MacFarlane also discusses “becoming the news” since leaving CBS and being singled out by the Trump White House officials, Hollywood Reporter, Washington Examiner and more.
In the wake of regional news outlet layoffs and downsizing in recent decades, MacFarlane highlights the glaring gap in the Washington press corps that he and outlets like The LCB are trying to fill by providing relevant, timely and localized political news outside the bounds of the nation’s dominant corporate media networks.
This segment first aired on 620 WTMJ, Wisconsin's Midday News.
