Add the Orange County Register to the list of California newspaper fighting for their survival. According to the Wall Street Journal, the equity owners of the paper will file for bankruptcy protection this week.
Some of the San Francisco Chronicle’s most talented journalists left the paper last Friday, including Tyche Hendricks, the paper’s star immigration reporter. (Hendricks [...]
Posts under ‘Future of California Newspapers’
Another California newspaper on the brink..
The Urgency of Local Reporting
Eric Alterman, who typically writes a media column for The Nation magazine makes the most compelling case for local and regional reporting I have seen in this article for the Center for American Progress.
And on his list of notable reports should be the remarkable investigative project on the unconscionable delays in investigating complaints regarding nursing [...]
A New Twist in Non-Profit Journalism
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 [...]
Brother, Can You Spare 75 Cents?
A few days ago I stared at the newspaper racks for the San Francisco Chronicle and the Oakland Tribune outside Mama’s Royal Cafe in Oakland where I had just had breakfast.
I noticed that they were each charging 75c for their daily editions — and $2 for their Sunday editions.
That’s a far cry from the 25c [...]
News Innovation Thrives in San Diego
When it comes to journalism innovation, San Diego may have every other city in the United States beat.
It’s here that new journalism experiments are popping up. For now, it has two of the liveliest online news engines — in effect competing against each other and the San Diego Union Tribune, recently sold and dramatically [...]
