by jpitney | May 6, 2025 | Journalism, Journalists, Local Government
The 2025 Pulitzer Prize for a distinguished example of coverage of significant issues of local or statewide concern, demonstrating originality and community connection, using any available journalistic tool, Awarded to Alissa Zhu, Nick Thieme and Jessica Gallagher...
by jpitney | Apr 21, 2025 | California Politics, Local Government, Los Angeles
Grace Toohey at LAT: The fire “brought to the forefront the issues of us being unincorporated; in some ways it did put us at a disadvantage,” said Darlene Greene, a member of Altadena’s town council, which can pass along concerns or recommendations to Los Angeles...
by jpitney | Apr 17, 2025 | Higher Education, Journalism, Journalists, Local Government, Uncategorized
Mark Caro at Poynter: The old formula went like this: Journalism undergrads would learn in classes and maybe work on the school paper and then get professional experience via internships or summer jobs at news outlets. But with the local news industry reeling,...
by jpitney | Feb 22, 2025 | 2776, California Politics, Declaration of Independence, Local Government, Trade, Vaccine
At LAT, Steve Lopez writes of Mayor Bass: She told two local TV news outlets she wouldn’t have gone to Ghana as part of a presidential delegation on Jan. 4 if she’d been aware of the fire risk in Los Angeles. “If I had all the information I needed to have, the last...
by jpitney | Jan 19, 2025 | California Politics, counties, Local Government
Aaron Davis at WP: Two years before wildfires incinerated swaths of Los Angeles, the city’s Fire Chief Kristin M. Crowley identified “one significant area of weakness” in her department’s ability to contain wildfires. L.A. had no specialized wildland unit to respond...
by jpitney | Dec 15, 2024 | Journalism, Journalists, Local Government, Newspapers, Uncategorized
Marc Caro at Poynter writes about “ghost newspapers” — publications that nominally continue to exist but have lost most or all local news reporting. While the nation’s ever-widening news deserts have drawn much attention, the ghost papers represent...
