The public isn’t the only stakeholder group with grievances against the news industry. Journalism is built on trust, which is why it’s alarming when the public loses faith in the news media. Worryingly, many journalists don’t trust their news organizations either. I recently read a new academic study of journalists by University of Georgia journalism…

The California governor’s puzzling views on news media policy. By now, you are probably already familiar with my ongoing journalistic persecution of Google’s nonsensical proposal to avoid antimonopoly regulation in California by chipping a few bucks and some AI at local newsrooms. Not a single organization of California journalists supports the proposed deal, including my…

Hardly anyone won, except for Google. Apologies in advance, but this long and weedsy post about Google’s proposed California journalism funding deal will be directed toward the journalism and policy nerds among us. If you’d like to hear me yap more accessibly about the bigger picture — about journalism, monopolies and the future of the…