by jpitney | Mar 31, 2024 | Journalism, Journalists, Local Government, Newspapers, Social Media, Technology
Claremont McKenna College alum Helena Bottemiller Evich has an important article at her Food Fix newsletter: here are many factors at play here. One biggie is that the business model for a large-scale national digital publication has essentially crumbled. There was a...
by jpitney | Mar 29, 2024 | Journalism, Journalists, Russia
Eliot Brown at WSJ: Evan Gershkovich was supposed to be with his friends in Berlin the first week of April 2023. The Wall Street Journal Russia correspondent was set to stay in an Airbnb in the edgy Neukölln neighborhood, a base to explore the city’s cobble-lined...
by jpitney | Mar 28, 2024 | California Politics, Disabilities
At LAT, Rebecca Ellis reports on abuse at Elwyn-Mayall, a home in Northridge for developmentally-disabled adults. In California, an alphabet soup of bureaucracies is tasked with making sure people with developmental disabilities are not abused — and if they are,...
by jpitney | Mar 27, 2024 | Congress, House of Representatives
Mayer Brown at JD Supra: Two developments last week threaten to weaken Republican control over the investigative agenda of the US House of Representatives. First, House Republicans’ narrow majority continues to shrink, with Representative Mike Gallagher (R-WI),...
