San Diego continues to reinforce its status as a leading force in news innovation.
Platinum Equity, the equity firm that bought the San Diego Union Tribune last month, is funding an investigative reporting initiative, The Watchdog Institute. The non-profit inititative will be run by none other than Lori Hearn, who until this week as senior [...]
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A New Twist in Non-Profit Journalism
Media Innovations Springing Up in California
Don’t count California’s media out.
Many of its major newspapers are clutching onto the flotsam of a sinking business model. Television news programs are barely making single digit ratings in many media markets.
Yet California, which spawned media legends like William Randolph Hearst and Otis Chandler, and paradigm-shifting innovations like Google, Yahoo! and Daily Kos, is again [...]
Newspapers’ 1981 glimpse into the future
Newspapers can’t say they weren’t warned — or aware — of the coming Internet age that could radically affect their futures. Take a look at this news report from KRON TV in 1981. The report described an experiment — allowing…
