Podcast: Paging Governor Cuomo

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By the time you read this, it will have been 278 days since Gov. Andrew Cuomo held a press conference in Albany. What was initially a curious anomaly, with each passing month, the governor's lack of engagement with the Albany press corps has snowballed into a bizarre statement on Cuomo's opaque media strategy, at a time when ethics and transparency are front and center.

Joining me on a special episode of The Slant Podcast this week are three reporters who have covered Cuomo before and during this unofficial quasi-media boycott: City & State's Ashley Hupfl, NY1's Zack Fink and Casey Seiler, state editor of the Albany Times Union. I pick their brains on the difficulties of reporting around the governor's lack of accessibility, what events may have marked Cuomo's shift in philosophy and whether this is a tactic to avoid answering tough questions on ethics reform. 

Stay tuned for our regular Slant Podcast episode dropping on Tuesday afternoon, and be sure to download, review and subscribe to the podcast on iTunes or listen on Stitcher. 

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