Josh Shapiro’s Interview With A Six-Year-Old Draws Jokes
Our reaction to Gavin Newsom signing California’s AB 2222, which creates refundable tax credits tied to journalist employment, and a broader discussion about the collapse of local reporting and corporate ownership of local newsro oms. We continue the local-news discussion by remembering beat reporters, independent stations and an era when individual reporters spent every day inside City Hall. Dawn recalls Gene Siskel telling younger journalists that they had missed an earlier era of the business, and we debate whether failing news companies should be supported by taxpayers or forced to…
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