by jpitney | May 22, 2024 | California Politics, Internet, Journalism, Journalists
George Skelton at LAT: Advertising money to pay reporters’ salaries has been hemorrhaging for years. Roughly two-thirds of California journalists have lost their jobs in the last two decades. More than 100 Times newsroom staffers were laid off in January. To their...
by jpitney | May 8, 2024 | Internet, Journalism, Journalists, Mass Media, Newspapers
Joshua Benton at NIeman: Some day in the distant future, scholars looking back on the evolution (devolution?) of the American news business will consider May 6, 2024 a date worthy of note. They’ll see it as the day the most prestigious prizes in journalism reflected...
by jpitney | May 6, 2024 | Journalism, Journalists, Newspapers
Jack Shafer at Politico: The loss of journalistic swagger can be measured partly in numbers. A generation ago, the profession summoned cultural power from employing almost a half-million people in the newspaper business alone. Now, more than two-thirds of newspaper...
by jpitney | May 3, 2024 | Free Speech, Journalism, Journalists
Kirsten Eddy at Pew: A large majority of Americans see the freedom of the press as highly important to the well-being of society. But many express concerns about potential restrictions on press freedoms in the United States – and say that political and financial...
by jpitney | Apr 26, 2024 | Dreier, Freedom of Press, Journalism, Journalists, Presidency
From the Fallen Journalists Memorial Foundation: The Fallen Journalists Memorial Foundation today announced the formation of a White House Press Secretaries Committee in support of the Fallen Journalists Memorial. The committee, which is co-chaired by former White...
by jpitney | Apr 16, 2024 | Journalism, Journalists
David Folkenflik at NPR: NPR has formally punished Uri Berliner, the senior editor who publicly argued a week ago that the network had “lost America’s trust” by approaching news stories with a rigidly progressive mindset. Berliner’s five-day...
