by jpitney | May 29, 2024 | California Politics, Journalism, Journalists, Local Government, Nonprofit
From AP: The Associated Press today announced five new content sharing agreements with U.S. nonprofit news outlets: CalMatters, Honolulu Civil Beat, Montana Free Press, Nebraska Journalism Trust and South Dakota News Watch. The collaborations are part of an...
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 1, 2024 | Corruption, Journalism, Journalists, Local Government
Carl Cannon at RealClearPolitics: To journalists whose lives have been turned upside down, these mass layoffs always felt like more than a blow to their family finances. It seemed like a grave civic loss as well. No matter what our critics think, the press was never...
by jpitney | Jan 16, 2024 | Civility, Local Government
Justin L. Mack at Axios: Carmel City Council member Jeff Worrell wants to rebuild civility in his hometown. Driving the news: More than 300 Carmel residents packed into the Carmel Clay Library last week to attend an event organized by Worrell that was part book...
by jpitney | Jan 13, 2024 | California Politics, Local Government
Rigel Robinson at Berkeleyside explains why he is quitting: I have served this community on the Berkeley City Council since 2018 and, for the last several years, have served as Berkeley’s representative on the Alameda County Transportation Commission. When I was first...
by jpitney | Aug 19, 2023 | Journalism, Journalists, Local Government, Newspapers
From the American Journalism Project: This summer, we announced the four teams participating in the American Journalism Project’s local news incubator, an 18-month program to support the buildout of new ideas to bring local news to communities. In July, we kicked off...