California has a prison crisis of enormous proportions, which both the state Legislature and Gov. Schwarzenegger have been unable, or unwilling, to come to terms with. Nearly two years ago, Gov. Schwarzenegger declared a prison emergency, and called the Legislature…
Posts from ‘October, 2008’
Who will cover California?
This was another bad week for the Los Angeles Times — and for the future of California coverage. For the second time in four months, the paper has, as LA Observed notes, laid off some of the most talented people…
Television News Also an Endangered Species?
Ask almost anyone about the most endangered sector of the news industry, and the reply is likely to be newspapers.Not so, says Leonard Downey, the former executive editor of the Washington Post.Television news is even more threatened, Downey said according…
Outsourcing News
Newspapers have not been immune from the trend towards outsourcing their operations, like having call centers handle subscriptions, readers complaints, and so on.California has the distinction of being home to the most dramatic example of outsourcing so far — offshoring…
California’s Radical Press Corps
I just returned from the annual conference of the California Newspaper Publishers Association in Burbank, at the Sheraton Hotel on the grounds of the Universal Studios. However, tours of the Universal theme park weren’t part of the proceedings. Nor did…
