Inside the Newsroom: Local Media Panel

This is a free event to attend, but registration is required. Register here.

Join PRSA Puget Sound for a panel discussion around the topic of local media, featuring leading voices in our region's media today. These are individuals who dedicate most, if not all, of their work to serving the local community by helping them become more informed, engaged and aware of topics pertaining to them and their nearby neighbors. The panel will cover issues such as evolving media business models, when to bring national topics to the local level, and anticipated trends or challenges for the coming years.

| Brian Callanan is a seven-time Emmy winner who currently serves as a television show host, producer, and moderator for the Seattle Channel, where he's worked since 2011. He's been in broadcast journalism for more than 30 years, including an 11-year stint as a reporter and anchor for FOX13 News in Seattle. Brian won the Seattle Municipal League's Civic Award for Government News Reporting in 2016. He also works as an independent video producer, professional host/auctioneer/MC, and audiobook narrator. He lives with his wife in West Seattle.

| Erica C. Barnett is a longtime Seattle journalist who worked as a reporter and editor for alternative weekly papers in Austin and Seattle before co-founding PubliCola with her colleague Josh Feit in 2009. As publisher and editor of PubliCola, she provides daily news and in-depth investigative coverage about the Seattle region with an emphasis on affordability, homelessness, and the criminal legal system. She's also the author of Quitter: A Memoir of Drinking, Relapse, and Recovery.

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PEMCO is located in Seattle's South Lake Union/Westlake neighborhood. It's accessible by bus (5, 28, 40, 62, E Line), bike (with racks outside the building) and car (free parking will be available for attendees in PEMCO's underground garage).

"Inside the Newsroom" is an ongoing series presented by the Public Relations Society of America (PRSA) Puget Sound chapter throughout 2026. Each event will feature a panel discussion with media voices across a variety of mediums all around a central theme or beat, such as local media. Stay tuned for more events in this series on other topics!

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