by jpitney | Nov 5, 2025 | Congress, House of Representatives, Journalism, Journalists
Bloomberg’s Steve Dennis: Capitol news desert: ~Half the states have nobody in the press corps watching their state delegations and asking tough questions in the hallway. It would take ~$10M/year to hire 50 top reporters, one for each state, plus editors, etc.,...
by jpitney | Oct 30, 2025 | Journalism, Public Opinion
Kirsten Eddy and Elisa Shearer at Pew: Overall, 56% of U.S. adults now say they have a lot of or some trust in the information they get from national news organizations – down 11 percentage points since March 2025 and 20 points since we first asked this question in...
by jpitney | Oct 7, 2025 | Journalism, Journalists, Mass Media, Public Opinion
Megan Brenan at Gallup: Americans’ confidence in the mass media has edged down to a new low, with just 28% expressing a “great deal” or “fair amount” of trust in newspapers, television and radio to report the news fully, accurately and fairly. This is down from 31%...
by jpitney | Oct 2, 2025 | Claremont McKenna College, Dreier, Journalism, Journalists
CMC’s Dreier Roundtable is pleased to announce the Fall 2025 op-ed writing contest. Entries should be in the form of an op-ed article of the kind that appears in newspapers and news sites. The op-ed may concern any issue in public affairs, broadly defined, domestic...
by jpitney | Sep 25, 2025 | California Politics, Journalism, Journalists, Local Government
Suhauna Hussain at LAT: A local television station based in Salinas abruptly shut down its news operations on Tuesday after 56 years on the air. KION-TV, which serves Monterey, Salinas and Santa Cruz regions on California’s Central Coast, announced on its website that...
