By JIM PUMARLO, Consultant
We’re more than halfway into 2023, and many local governments are well involved in exploring 2024 budgets.
Are your newsrooms aware of the process? Are you keeping readers abreast of the dynamics? It’s not too early to brainstorm ideas for timely and meaningful coverage.
Shaping and adopting budgets often takes months encompassing hours of meetings and hundreds of pages of documents. Yet most newsrooms likely observe and report only a snapshot of the process.