1. Set the geographic boundary before choosing stories
A Sayreville firm may serve Sayreville, Middlesex County, a wider New Jersey audience, or a combination of those areas. Those are different editorial decisions. Sayreville is a municipality in Middlesex County; the Census estimate identifies the place and county relationship, but it does not establish that residents are searching for a particular legal service. Legal News should therefore be evaluated against the firm’s actual service area and practice priorities rather than against population alone. Bosseo’s public Legal News description says its system monitors local and national legal-news sources for a state and matches stories to practice areas. The consultation should clarify how the firm wants New Jersey coverage narrowed, expanded or reviewed.
Recommended approach
Write down the places the firm is prepared to serve and the jurisdictions relevant to its work. Then ask Bosseo to show how a story would be judged relevant to Sayreville, Middlesex County or New Jersey. Do not treat a population estimate as a forecast of demand.
