Matt Pearce

A hearing on new changes to AB 886 is set for June 25. It’s looking increasingly likely California lawmakers will send at least one major journalism jobs bill to Gov. Gavin Newsom’s desk this year. Today, state lawmakers have unveiled significant amendments to one of the bills, Assemblymember Buffy Wicks’ Assembly Bill 886, also known

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TikTok’s best political path to survival runs through its content creators. Platform logic might get in the way. A lot of people volunteer their time and energy to post content on Elon Musk’s social media platform in an effort to help him earn back his $44 billion misinvestment into Twitter. This is stupid and misguided.

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It’s gravitas. But with scale. I don’t mean to unduly alarm anyone. But amid the leadership shuffle at the Washington Post — Sally Buzbee out, Matt Murray in — my antenna started vibrating at CEO Will Lewis’ memo to staff about an impending reorganization that would create not one (news), not two (news + opinion),

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