Re-reading Rousseau's "The Social Contract." | Continue reading
A onrush of new legislation to support local news. | Continue reading
Muckraking's symbiosis with the constitutional order under Donald Trump. | Continue reading
Waging a new fight for local journalists across the U.S. | Continue reading
Trump/Musk, the billionaire-CEO, and the American soft spot for tyranny. | Continue reading
Assessing the early damage stateside and abroad. | Continue reading
Looking for something to root for in the fight for TikTok. | Continue reading
AI had a trust problem when lives and homes were on the line. | Continue reading
A callout to readers. | Continue reading
What we can learn from the success of the L.A. wildfires' breakout info resource. | Continue reading
How California lawmakers can support getting more of the best L.A. fire coverage. | Continue reading
A few brighter spots in the information environment around L.A.'s fires. | Continue reading
The breaking-news experience is awful for consumers. | Continue reading
Gannett and Reuters come for one of the final corners for legacy media that had resisted the financialization of journalism. | Continue reading
Concrete ideas for news consumers, journalists and policymakers. | Continue reading
Toward tomorrow's popular press. | Continue reading
On the power and limits of disclosure. | Continue reading
The Aussies build on the policy that started it all: an update to the News Media Bargaining Code. | Continue reading
On an increasingly protectionist internet, saving TikTok might not be what the First Amendment is for. | Continue reading
How the next Trump administration's attitude toward corporate competition could be worse than nothing. | Continue reading
On Donald Trump, Kash Patel and gangsterism in the democracy. | Continue reading
Creator-based journalism has a market problem: The market is bad. | Continue reading
Journalists have a democracy problem, in addition to all our other problems. | Continue reading
The owner of the Los Angeles Times now says the Biden's administration's handling of Gaza did play a factor in his non-endorsement decision. | Continue reading
The truth is going out of business as technology turns us into a folk-story society, ripe for influence by a demagogue. | Continue reading
Contemplating the purpose of the press after the Trump revolution. | Continue reading
The fight for freedom is a war on boredom. | Continue reading
Donald Trump's haunting obsession with disfigurement in the democracy. | Continue reading
Listen to journalists. | Continue reading
Toward a more pro-journalist approach to being pissed off. | Continue reading
Billionaire owners at Los Angeles Times and Washington Post set a standard of cowardice in facing a crucial election. | Continue reading
An embarrassing and avoidable episode for the owner of the Los Angeles Times. | Continue reading
Millennial's generational struggle against Boomers is ending where it always would: old-fashioned class war. | Continue reading
The public isn't the only stakeholder group with grievances against the news industry. | Continue reading
The California governor's puzzling views on news media policy. | Continue reading
Hardly anyone won, except for Google. | Continue reading
Hollywood and journalism have a crisis in common. | Continue reading
California wants Big Tech to pay for local journalism. The legislative fight hasn't been completely fair. | Continue reading
The latest attack on the California Journalism Preservation Act is showing up on TV and social media. | Continue reading
On assassins and the limits of biographical meaning. | Continue reading
RIP Jane Frances McAlevey, 1964-2024. | Continue reading
The two faces of the platforms' war against specificity. | Continue reading
Senator Steve Glazer's Senate Bill 1327 secures a two-thirds majority. | Continue reading
A tipsheet for investigative journalists. | Continue reading
What happens when the news isn't new anymore? | Continue reading
A hearing on new changes to AB 886 is set for June 25. | Continue reading
TikTok's best political path to survival runs through its content creators. Platform logic might get in the way. | Continue reading
It's gravitas. But with scale. | Continue reading