Journal News/lohud journalists to discuss future of local news at Chappaqua panel
Tax Watch columnist David McKay Wilson and Journal News/lohud reporter Asher Stockler will join a panel discussion on the future of local news on Wednesday, March 22, at Chappaqua Public Library at 7 p.m.
Moderating the panel will be Grace Bennett, the magazine publisher of Inside Armonk, Inside Chappaqua and Millwood, and Inside Briarcliff Manor and Pleasantville. Other writers on the panel will include Martin Wilbur, editor-in-chief of the Examiner News chain, and Michelle Falkenstein, a freelance journalist who has written for The New York Times, Albany Times Union, and the Journal News/lohud.
Wilson, who joined Gannett in 1986 to write about the city of White Plains, has written the Tax Watch column since 2012. Wilson has also covered municipal beats in Yonkers, New Rochelle and Mount Vernon, county governments in Westchester and Putnam, as well as covering public education throughout the Hudson Valley.
Stockler has served as an accountability reporter at the Journal News/lohud since arriving in 2021. Stockler, who graduated from Scarsdale High in 2012, returned to Westchester after working as a national correspondent at Newsweek and producing breaking news at the cable television network MSNBC.
This article originally appeared on Rockland/Westchester Journal News: Wilson, Stockler to speak on local journalism in Chappaqua on March 22
