Billionaire owners at Los Angeles Times and Washington Post set a standard of cowardice in facing a crucial election. For the last several years, as I’ve spent much of my time studying ways to preserve journalism in the United States, I kept arriving at the same conclusion over and over again: The interests of publishers…

An embarrassing and avoidable episode for the owner of the Los Angeles Times. Like with many news outlets of all stripes, it’s been a hard couple of years for the Los Angeles Times. As the chair of the newsroom union’s bargaining committee, I spent a decent chunk of my remaining time in the newsroom negotiating…

Millennials’ generational struggle against Boomers is ending where it always would: old-fashioned class war. I was talking to an older acquaintance recently, a Gen Xer corporate executive, who was vexed by Mark Zuckerberg’s style transformation: the curly hair, the necklaces, the casual shirts. “He looks so stupid,” she said. To which I replied, absolutely: He…