Don’t call the hearse yet, but today was another tough day for in-depth coverage of California. The Los Angeles Times announced that it would lay off another 300 employees, including about 70 from its newsroom. These announcements are becoming depressingly…
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Ethnic media also struggle
Word that San Francisco-based AsianWeek will cease publication will shatter one widely held myth: that the ethnic media don’t face quite the same budget and readership as their larger, and better endowed partners. In recent years, as circulation of mainstream…
In defense of newspapers
In the final days of 2008, a year filled with bad news about the newspaper industry, Paul Mulshine, a columnist for the Newark Star-Ledger, has penned a ringing defense of newspapers, and the reporting only they are able to do.Or…
NPR slashes West Coast presence
The devastating layoffs announced today by National Public Radio will have their greatest impact on news and reporting from the West Coast.The layoffs indicate that even a news organization that enjoyed huge increases in its listenership over the past decade…
New Reporting Venture Gets Underway — in Merced
Embedded journalists in Merced?Well yes, in a way. A new reporting venture — and a new twist in the range of new non-profit journalism models that are emerging — got underway on December 3 with publication of Sowing Hope: UC…
