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Articles tagged California Watch (40)
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California Watch is a nonprofit investigative news organization that focuses on public affairs issues in California. A project of the nonprofit Center for Investigative Reporting, California Watch was founded in 2009 and is based in Berkeley, Calif. In March 2012, the CIR merged with the Bay Area nonprofit news site The Bay Citizen under the auspices of…
April 18, 2013
December 20, 2012
2013 could end up making 2012 seem calm by comparison.
November 29, 2012
“The new muckraking isn’t the effect of new media alone…Yet buried within the infrastructures of communicative abundance are technical features that enable muckrakers to do their work of publicly scrutinising power, much more efficiently and effectively than at any moment in the history of democracy.”
September 13, 2012
Atlantic Media’s new business site has the advantage of starting with a strategic clean slate. Now, it’s all about execution.
August 2, 2012
The web may make syndication easier, but it hasn’t yet made it into a great business. A new wave of startups are trying to change that.
May 24, 2012
Rupert Murdoch might be thinking about putting his British newspapers into a trust. Why haven’t we seen more innovation in how news organizations get owned and governed?
April 19, 2012
At the Logan Symposium at Berkeley, investigative reporting showed plenty of signs of life.
April 18, 2012
The nonprofit continues its experimentation with new forms of distribution.
April 12, 2012
The days when publishers could rely on two big revenue streams — advertising and circulation — are over, and they’re not coming back. It’s time to search for smaller golden eggs.
March 29, 2012
Newspapers and other publishers are realizing the value of selling something other than their primary product to readers — and ebooks are leading the way.
March 29, 2012
On cutting back on breaking news coverage at The Bay Citizen: “There’s almost no such thing as first anymore.”
March 19, 2012
How can a nonprofit news organization maximize its chances of securing 501(c)(3) status from the IRS? The Digital Media Law Project is publishing a guide, and we’ve got a sneak peek.
February 10, 2012
Plus: Parsing The New York Times’ paywall figures, a big nonprofit news merger in the Bay Area, and all the rest of this week’s news in media and tech.
February 8, 2012
In the Bay Area, in Los Angeles, in San Diego — the traditional boundaries of California journalism are shifting fast.
October 7, 2011
Plus: Thoughts on the new iPhone 4S, Facebook’s overhaul, and the impact of the Kindle Fire, along with the rest of the week’s required reading.
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