by jpitney | Feb 25, 2024 | California Politics, Journalism, Journalists
Cameron Joseph at The Columbia Journalism Review: Now California lawmakers are seriously considering the California Journalism Preservation Act, a bill modeled on those countries’ laws with the aim of arresting and reversing the decline in local media. It would be the...
by jpitney | Feb 21, 2024 | California Politics, Congress, Public Service
Democratic congressional candidate Aditya Pai has released a new documentary on his campaign for U.S. Congress to represent Artesia, Cerritos, Hawaiian Gardens, and north Orange County. Pai’s candidacy focuses on a need for more public service and less politics in...
by jpitney | Feb 19, 2024 | California Politics, Polarization, Public Opinion
A Leger survey for the LAT finds that 29% of Americans — and 48% of Republicans think that California is “not really American.” Other findings: Over one-third of U.S. residents believe that California is a model other states should avoid (39%),...
by jpitney | Feb 18, 2024 | California Politics, China, Journalism, Journalists, Public Service
DRT panel on student journalism, February 22 lunch Join the Dreier Roundtable for a panel centering the role of student journalism on college campuses. In today’s political and social climate where free speech is under scrutiny, student newspapers play a critical role...
by jpitney | Jan 31, 2024 | Bureaucracy, California Politics, Environment
Dan Walters at CalMatters enumerates California government’s many dysfunctional projects and adds two to the list. California received $800 million from a settlement with German carmaker Volkswagen over its cheating on pollution emission testing and has spent...
by jpitney | Jan 26, 2024 | California Politics, Journalism, Journalists
Claremont McKenna College alum Cameron Joseph at The Columbia Journalism Review: On Tuesday, the Los Angeles Times laid off 115 people, more than 20 percent of its total staff. If those cuts went to the bone, in Washington, DC, it was more like an amputation: four of...
