What's it like to cover the news in New Hampshire, and who are the people doing it?
The Granite Beat, a new podcast launched by The Laconia Daily Sun with the Granite State News Collaborative, seeks to answer these questions, and is available via all of the usual streaming services.
Each week, co-hosts Adam Drapcho and Julie Hart will interview one of the many people who dedicate themselves to providing news coverage of this small but interesting state. Courts and cops reporters, columnists, health journalists, politico watchers– each one with a different view of New Hampshire, their own Granite Beat.
"The podcast, we hope, will appeal to both journalists and those consuming news, helping them understand the process that goes into bringing a story from idea to publication. I've learned a lot so far, and I think listeners will, too," said Hart, who is the digital editor for The Laconia Daily Sun.
The podcast will highlight journalists throughout the Granite State. "We plan to highlight some of the stories, and storytellers, that sometimes don't get noticed outside of their own local market. We also ask these journalists not just what they learned, but how they learned it. It's our hope that this will enhance the value that New Hampshire residents have in their local journalists," says Drapcho, freelance writer.
Drapcho and Hart were inspired by journalism podcasts that "...pulled back the curtain on how some of the biggest headlines were generated,” says Drapcho, "It's my hope that The Granite Beat will elevate some of those stories out of their regional markets so that they'll get more readers or listeners than they would otherwise, and to improve the trust that the state's news consumers have with their local journalists.”.
Listen to the Granite Beat Podcast here.
The Granite State News Collaborative is a collective of more than 20 local media, education and community partners working together to produce and share news stories on the issues that most impact our state. The hope is that together we can provide more information to more communities across New Hampshire than we could individually.
GSNC partners include: 603 Diversity; The Berlin Daily Sun, Business NH Magazine, The Business Journal of Greater Keene, Brattleboro and Peterborough, The Concord Monitor, The Conway Daily Sun, The Eagle Times, The Eagle-Tribune, The Keene Sentinel, The Laconia Daily Sun, Manchester Ink Link, The Marlin Fitzwater Center at Franklin Pierce University, The Nashua Telegraph, NH Bar News, NH Business Review, New Hampshire Press Association, New Hampshire PBS, NH Public Radio, The Monadnock Ledger-Transcript, Seacoast Media Group and The Valley News.