Hollywood and journalism have a crisis in common. There’s a famous story from 1933 about how Hollywood got its unions. The industry was in a Great Depression-sized crisis. MGM head Louis B. Mayer called all his writers, actors, directors to the executive studio projection room and told everyone they needed to agree to a 50%…

California wants Big Tech to pay for local journalism. The legislative fight hasn’t been completely fair. In the last few days, we’ve been blessed by the appearance of one of Big Tech’s most brazen astroturf groups as the industry fights two bills that would require tech monopolies to return some of their profits to local…

The latest attack on the California Journalism Preservation Act is showing up on TV and social media. Last week, I had the odd pleasure of encountering new ads from the Computer and Communications Industry Association opposing one of the major pieces of journalism jobs legislation my Guild supports, Assembly Bill 886, also known as the…