by jpitney | Jul 25, 2025 | Journalism, Journalists, Newspapers
Justin Baragona at The Independent: The flood of high-profile editorial talent fleeing the Washington Post as the storied newspaper revamps its opinion section to focus exclusively on “personal liberties and free markets” continued to grow this week as Pulitzer...
by jpitney | Jul 12, 2025 | Journalism, Journalists, Law
Filmmaker Mary Strause made a docuseries critical of UnitedHealth. The companies used the threat of litigation to coerce streaming services to take it down. CMC alum David Enrich at NYT: In legal letters and court filings, UnitedHealth has invoked last year’s murder...
by jpitney | Jul 11, 2025 | California Politics, Journalism, Journalists, Local Government, Newspapers
From Muck Rack: In 2000, many Americans lived in a community with journalists — people whose job it was to cover school board decisions, announce small business openings and closures, root out corruption at city hall, warn commuters about road work and trumpet the...
by jpitney | Jun 25, 2025 | Claremont McKenna College, Journalism, Journalists
Claremont McKenna College alum Steve Grove has a new book from Simon and Schuster: Just after turning forty, Steve Grove left Silicon Valley as a Google executive to move to his home state of Minnesota with his wife and fellow tech exec, Mary Grove, and their...
by jpitney | Jun 12, 2025 | Journalism, Journalists, Violence
David Bauder at AP: More than two dozen journalists have been injured or roughed up while covering protests against immigration raids in Los Angeles, leading press freedom groups to question whether law enforcement has been deliberately targeting reporters on the...
by jpitney | Jun 11, 2025 | Artificial Intelligence, Journalism
Isabella Simonetti and Katherine Blunt at WSJ: The AI armageddon is here for online news publishers. Chatbots are replacing Google searches, eliminating the need to click on blue links and tanking referrals to news sites. As a result, traffic that publishers relied on...