by jpitney | Dec 31, 2019 | Congress
From GAO: The Office of Congressional Workplace Rights’ (OCWR) mission is to effectively implement and enforce the Congressional Accountability Act of 1995 (CAA), as amended in 2018 by the Congressional Accountability Act of 1995 Reform Act (Reform Act). OCWR...
by jpitney | Dec 30, 2019 | California Politics, Journalism, Mass Media, Uncategorized
AP reports: One of the longest-running newspapers in California printed its final edition on Sunday, ending 161 years of publishing news about the city of Martinez east of San Francisco. Rick Jones, the Martinez News-Gazette’s editor, said he wasn’t certain whether...
by jpitney | Dec 29, 2019 | Mass Media, Uncategorized
Media problems include ghost newspapers and news deserts. Janie Har at AP: The cities and suburbs on the eastern side of San Francisco Bay are home to 2.7 million people, a world-class University of California campus and bedroom communities for Silicon Valley that...
by jpitney | Dec 28, 2019 | Journalism, Public Opinion, Uncategorized
Zacc Ritter at Gallup: The degree that the public trusts journalists varies widely across 144 countries and territories included in the 2018 Wellcome Global Monitor study. Worldwide, the percentage who express at least some trust in journalists ranges from a low of...
by jpitney | Dec 27, 2019 | Election Security, Russia
From the Defending Digital Democracy Project (D3P): D3P is led by Eric Rosenbach, Co-Director of the Belfer Center and former Assistant Secretary of Defense. Prior to his July 2015 appointment as Chief of Staff to Secretary of Defense Ash Carter, Rosenbach served as...
