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🚨 After last night’s debate, calls for President Biden to drop out of the race are growing louder. But if Joe goes, who will replace him? Lee Fang on the corporate lobbyists with outsized influence on choosing Dems’ next pick: levernews.com/how-lobbyists-…

Today I was fired from the Wall Street Journal. This is my statement:

In Knight First Amendment Institute, Wesley advocates for a federal public trust to subsidize the news and information ecosystem. “We must reimagine the relationship between the press and the public and consider bold new forms of public support for journalism.” knightcolumbia.org/content/the-ri…

An update for California's journalists on Google's settlement proposal, sent to Guild members this evening:

Jeff Jarvis was a paid lobbyist for the Chamber of Commerce. The only people willing to publicly defend California’s ugly Google deal right now are the same people Google and its allies paid to kill AB 886. This is a job.

This week, in a genuinely stunning series of events, a bill that was written to save local journalism from big tech was gutted in a backroom deal—and wound up bailing out Google and *boosting AI* instead. You can't make this stuff up. Here's how it happened.

Do your kids go to an Oakland school? Are you concerned about recent reports of lead in OUSD's water? Want to learn how to read the (highly technical) lead test reports OUSD recently posted online? Check out this guide by ashley mcbride & Callie Rhoades oaklandside.org/2024/08/23/how…

Many California hospitals would not be able to operate if a major earthquake hit their area. Now, many will have to hit a 2030 deadline to retrofit. Annie Sciacca reports for KFF Health News-#CalHealthline & Los Angeles Times

NEWS: Google's deal to fund CA journalism came with a demand: that the state contribute 10s of millions of dollars. Public money helped set a precedent in CA, one person said, which Google believes will discourage other states from following CA's lead bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

Exactly. By Charlie Warzel. "What’s happening in America today is something darker than a misinformation crisis." theatlantic.com/technology/arc…

Interesting deep dive into a key figure who has his hand in a lot of the political conflicts roiling Oakland right now.

Scenes around The Town on election night. Mistah FAB say no to Price recall, Oakland Tech students vote for the first time, Tim DuPuis talks election logistics, and more. oaklandside.org/2024/11/05/oak…

Trump's onslaught against the press will be destabilizing. Rather than wilt under the pressure, the news media needs to use the next two months to prepare for all the challenges we will face in 2025. By Kyle Paoletta. cjr.org/political_pres…

With SPJ NorCal Chapter @spj-norcal.bsky.social and PacificMediaWorkers, we sent a letter to San Joaquin County Sheriff’s Office Patrick Withrow expressing alarm at his comment that journalists "conspired to break the law" when they lawfully obtained documents from San Joaquin County Superior Court. See the letter⬇️ firstamendmentcoalition.org/2024/12/11/fac…

The journalists of EdSource are excited to announce the formation of the EdSource Guild.

NEW: The Trump administration’s DEI crackdown could worsen the already abysmal diversity numbers at U.S. medical schools, even in states like California that have been navigating affirmative action bans for years. Annie Sciacca reports. ⤵️ kffhealthnews.org/news/article/d…

NEW: Gavin Newsom wants to delay a California law requiring nursing homes to have 96 hours of backup power. Critics say it would be a dangerous rollback of emergency protections, especially after the Los Angeles wildfires. Annie Sciacca reports. ⤵️ kffhealthnews.org/news/article/g…

“Really? After what just happened earlier this year in Los Angeles, we think fire safety and emergency preparedness is where we want to make cuts?” says patient advocate Tony Chicotel. Annie Sciacca reports for KFF Health News kffhealthnews.org/news/article/g…

Follow coverage of the protests underway in the East Bay ahead of an expected influx of federal immigration authorities later today: eastbaytimes.com/2025/10/23/fed…