Newsonomics: Newspapers In Name Only & Who’s Going To Build What Comes Next In Local?

Neil Chase knows the painful realities of managing and motivating a daily newsroom in 2018. “You can’t ask dedicated, veteran career journalists to completely change the way they work without explaining why,” the Mercury News executive editor said at a panel discussion I moderated at Stanford ...

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Newsonomics: Texas, Vast Texas, Aims to Set a New Standard in Statewide Public Media News

Texas Standard debuts with a snap, crackle, and pop. David Brown, its daily host, “brings us the snap of Marketplace, which he used to anchor,” says KUT general manager Stewart Vanderwilt, who has the fun of acting the impresario in the launch of a new one-hour, five-day-a-week public radio ...

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What Are They Thinking: CALmatters Wants to Shake-Up California Statehouse

First published at Capital New York Simone Coxe is frustrated. Like many well-informed, civic-minded citizens, she finds her local news sources shrinking by the month. Unlike others, she’s put a million dollars where her worries have led her. With that million and an additional million and ...

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