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 [...]
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News Innovation Thrives in San Diego
California Dreaming .. of a Constitutional Convention
California desperately needs new ideas to help it out of its current mess.
But there is a danger that Californians will latch on to some bad ideas or half baked ideas or even good ideas that don’t solve the problem they’re meant to solve — as has happened in California repeatedly over the past thirty years
The [...]
Television Too?
The Federal Trade Commission is the latest government agency to dive into the stormy media waters.
This fall it will begin holdings a series of workshops titled “Can the News Media Survive the Internet Age? Competition, Consumer Protection and First Amendment Perspectives.”
The FTC says it will look at not only the newspaper industry but the broadcast industry [...]
No Pulitzer in Schwarzenegger’s Future
If California was not in such terrible financial shape, newspaper publishers could try to convince the Legislature and Gov. Schwarzenegger to give newspapers a tax break, along the lines of the one that Washington State Governor Chris Gregoire just signed into law.
Some pundits, including former Washington Post/Portfolio/New York magazine writer Lloyd Grove, are suggesting she [...]
If Governor Is Serious, Sell the Golden Gate Bridge
One of the more bizarre proposals that Gov. Schwarzenegger has put forward to close a likely $21.3 billion budget shortfall is to sell off some of California’s least attractive landmarks, including the Oakland Coliseum and San Quentin State Penitentiary.
Who would want them? The Oakland A’s are desperately trying to get out of the Coliseum. [...]
