by jpitney | Nov 21, 2025 | Claremont McKenna College, Journalism, Journalists
Nate Weisberg `24 at The Washington Monthly: What I’ve learned at the Washington Monthly is simple: look where others aren’t. Ask the complex question. Build the case. And then write the hell out of it. Start over and do it again. That approach has taken me...
by jpitney | Nov 9, 2025 | Claremont McKenna College, Dreier, Journalism, Journalists
From a brief talk at the 50th anniversary celebration of the Claremont McKenna College Washington Semester Program: The Washington Program, as we know it, began in the 1970s when Professors Fred Balitzer and Alan Heslop noticed that some programs in Washington would...
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 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...
