by jpitney | Apr 3, 2024 | Journalism, Journalists
Many posts have described the decline of local news. Howard Husock at City Journal: The recent emergence of nonprofit local news holds promise for at least arresting the negative trend. Reliant on philanthropy and reader support, these digital enterprises avoid the...
by jpitney | Mar 31, 2024 | Journalism, Journalists, Local Government, Newspapers, Social Media, Technology
Claremont McKenna College alum Helena Bottemiller Evich has an important article at her Food Fix newsletter: here are many factors at play here. One biggie is that the business model for a large-scale national digital publication has essentially crumbled. There was a...
by jpitney | Mar 29, 2024 | Journalism, Journalists, Russia
Eliot Brown at WSJ: Evan Gershkovich was supposed to be with his friends in Berlin the first week of April 2023. The Wall Street Journal Russia correspondent was set to stay in an Airbnb in the edgy Neukölln neighborhood, a base to explore the city’s cobble-lined...
by jpitney | Mar 21, 2024 | Journalism, Journalists
Tom Jones at Poynter: This is a stunning development in American news media. Gannett, the publisher of USA Today and the largest newspaper chain in the country with more than 200 outlets, announced it will stop using content provided by The Associated Press starting...
by jpitney | Mar 19, 2024 | Bipartisanship, Civility, Journalism, Journalists
Utah Governor Spencer Cox was a hit at the Gridiron. He closed with more serious remarks: In all sincerity, so much of what is truly great about America flows from a free press, embracing its sacred obligation to bring facts to light and to tell the truth no matter...
