1. Set the geographic boundary before choosing stories
Bosseo’s public Legal News description says its monitoring is matched to a firm’s practice areas and state. The service page also describes local and national sources monitored for a firm’s state. For a firm serving McCook, the known local relationship is McCook city in Red Willow County, Nebraska. That does not establish that every story in the county is relevant, or that a statewide story will matter to a McCook reader. Geography should therefore be an editorial filter, not a reason to publish every incident that appears nearby. Decide whether a page should address McCook, Red Willow County, Nebraska, or a broader audience affected by a state law or appellate decision. Keep those audiences distinct in titles, explanations and calls to action.
Recommended approach
Bring Bosseo a written geographic policy. Identify which matters are genuinely local to McCook or Red Willow County, which are Nebraska-wide, and which should not be covered merely because they occurred in the state. Ask how that policy would be reflected in proposed pages and how you would review a story whose legal relevance is statewide but whose facts are elsewhere.
