by jpitney | Mar 29, 2020 | California Politics, Coronavirus, Newspapers
Previous posts have discussed the crisis in local news. Steven Waldman and Charles Sennott at The Atlantic: In this moment, the bottom is falling out economically for local news organizations. Those small businesses in your town that are closing left and right? They...
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 15, 2019 | California Politics, State Government
California’s Capital Fellows Programs are nationally recognized public policy fellowships that offer unique experiences in policy-making in each branch of state government. Capital Fellows are placed at some of the highest levels of California state government...
by jpitney | Nov 17, 2019 | California Politics, Civility, Uncategorized
In Sacramento, KCRA reports: In this time of deepening political divisions, people on opposite ends of the political spectrum are not only disagreeing, but outwardly and aggressively sparring. Many northern California voters say they have had enough. But civility is...
