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
Can journalists measure how much good we're doing? What if we learn something we don't want to know? | Continue reading
Humanity's existential confrontation with machines is not going as expected. | Continue reading
An interview with host Lizzie O’Leary on Slate’s “What Next: TBD” podcast. | Continue reading
California Sen. Steve Glazer is proposing a data-mining fee on Big Tech to fund $500 million in journalism jobs. Let's do it. | Continue reading
We must be reasonable! | Continue reading
This is not the news ban you're looking for. | Continue reading
A case for the California Journalism Preservation Act. | Continue reading
It is time to regulate Big Tech. | Continue reading
I'm joining Victor Pickard and Brandi Collins-Dexter and for a talk hosted by Freelance Solidarity Project about building a better future for journalism. | Continue reading
Somebody is missing from the upcoming International Symposium on Online Journalism in Austin, Texas. | Continue reading
Americans seem stuck with the leaders we've got. | Continue reading
Some ideas to save journalism are better than others. | Continue reading
We always knew Wall Street was bad news for local news. Here are some hard numbers. | Continue reading
Will California introduce a digital ad tax to fund local journalism? | Continue reading
On the need for journalists to start thinking much bigger. | Continue reading
The story of the Los Angeles Municipal News, and the hope — and limitations — of publicly owned newsrooms. | Continue reading
My review of Kyle Chayka's new book, "Filterworld." | Continue reading
The worst thing journalists can do is give up hope. | Continue reading