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Local reporting is a public good

Local reporting is a public good

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The collapse of local news in America poses a significant threat to our democracy, underscored by flashing headlines: a 70% loss of journalism jobs and the closure of one-third of newsrooms in California over the last two decades. Last year, in response, a historic media coalition representing California’s voices across the racial and ethnic spectrum — including AAPI, Black, Latino, …

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On the ancestral lands of the Konkow Valley Band of Maidu Indians, a training

The Konkow Valley Band of Maidu Indians, along with California Open Lands and the Camp Fire Restoration Project held a three-day training that began on March 20 at Lake Concow Campground. video by Juan Flores

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Reader Comments

Apr 07
“Great article! If you don’t have independent and vigorious local reporting you do not have representative government. Most of the mainstream media reporting is first spun to keep the big advertizers happy….”
Charles Fredrick Withuhn on Local reporting is a public good
Apr 04
“Thank you for this important reporting. The CalEnviroScreen data makes visible what residents of the Mulberry and Chapman neighborhoods have lived for decades — a compounding of industrial legacy, poverty, and neglect…”
Richard H. Roth on Chapman & Mulberry shoulder “pollution burden”
Apr 03
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