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Breaking news: California Senate advances a major data mining tax to fund journalism jobs
Senator Steve Glazer’s Senate Bill 1327 secures a two-thirds majority. This just in: Minutes ago, the California Senate voted 27-7 to advance Senator Steve Glazer’s incredibly ambitious bill SB 1327 to tax Big Tech data-mining to fund hundreds of millions of dollars worth annually of journalist employment tax credits. This is actually the second massive
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A reporter's guide to practicing self-defense in the newsroom
A tipsheet for investigative journalists. Hello, everyone! I write to you from the Investigative Reporters and Editors conference in Anaheim, where I’m moderating a panel on how to use your newsroom union to protect your journalism. As part of the panel — and to add to IRE’s impressive library of practical advice for investigative journalists
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AI and the end of journalistic time
What happens when the news isn’t new anymore? This morning I was talking with a friend about the Danish philosopher Søren Kierkegaard, who always seemed like a man out of place. I don’t just mean this in the old-school existential sense of alienation from the self or from God. After Kierkegaard picked a fight with