WHAV’s Coco to Take Part in ‘Remaking Local News’ Panel as Part of Meet the Media 2025

WHAV President and CEO Tim Coco.

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Tim Coco, president and CEO of WHAV, will join industry colleagues next week in Boston when he provides his insights on the future of local news as part of Meet the Media 2025.

Coco will take part in a panel, “Remaking local news: Challenges and Opportunities in a digital world,” moderated by Boston Globe Media Reporter Aidan Ryan. Others on the Thursday morning panel will be Marblehead Current Editor/Co-Founder Leigh Blander, El Mundo Boston President and CEO Alberto Vasallo III, Cambridge Day Board Member Niko Emack and Northeastern University’s Reinventing Local TV News Project Professor Mike Beaudet.

Meet the Media 2025, presented by the State House News Service and MASSterList, features a two-part panel discussion. The first, “Reporter Roundtable: Insight and perspective from reporters covering the daily headlines,” is moderated by State House News Service Reporter Chris Lisinski and includes Axios Boston Reporter Mike Deehan, Boston Globe Reporter Jess Bartlett, GBH News State House reporter Katie Lannan, Boston Herald Reporter Chris Van Buskirk and The FlipSide Founder/Editor-in-Chief Yawu Miller. Organizers say it focuses on the “process, sourcing and craft that goes into news coverage.”

Coco participates in the second panel which will “delve into evolving models for emerging publications in the local market.”

Meet the Media 2025 is expected to draw more than 300 communication and media professionals. It takes place Thursday, June 5, beginning with networking at 8 a.m. and program from 9-10:30 a.m., at MCLE Conference Center, 10 Winter Place, Downtown Crossing, Boston. Admission is $25 per person. Registration takes place online here.

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