Sitemap - 2024 - Matt Pearce

Best ways to support journalism in 2025

What comes after "pro-democracy journalism"

Is a "we're Communists!" push alert really what saves TikTok?

Australia's latest idea to make Big Tech pay for journalism

Manipulating algorithms is only O.K. if you're American

Anti-lib antitrust

Mobs beget mobsters

Making journalism-shaped widgets at the discrimination factory

Journalism's biggest problems are now what we don't control

Well, Patrick Soon-Shiong lied

Journalism's fight for survival in a postliterate democracy

Lessons on media policy at the slaughter-bench of history

Democracy's mystique

Body horror in the body politic

200,000 canceled subscriptions later, Jeff Bezos proves the point

Why canceling subscriptions to billionaires' newsrooms hurts the wrong people

Are these your kings?

That doesn't make any sense, Patrick

Understanding Lina Khan and the Millennial class war

The journalism trust problem that a nonprofit newsroom can't fix

Gov. Gavin Newsom has opinions about journalism jobs(?)

A deep dive into Google's shady (and shoddy) California journalism deal

The Seth Rogen strike quote I think about all the time

California's SB 1327 and the Big Tech astroturfers of the week

Big Tech is behind those creepy "oppose AB 886" ads in California

The plotless lives of underground men

Fix your union, fight for journalism, repair the world

Slop versus scum: A brief theory of the internet

Breaking news: California Senate advances a major data mining tax to fund journalism jobs

A reporter's guide to practicing self-defense in the newsroom

AI and the end of journalistic time

News: California Journalism Preservation Act gets an overhaul

Why creators would let TikTok die

Washington Post tries Tronc...?

"Moneyball" and the limits of journalism's analytics revolution

Slop era

Slate podcast: "Can California save local journalism?"

California unveils a second major journalism jobs bill

Google can't afford to pay for journalism!

When Facebook bans the news

Journalism after the death of hyperlinks

Google's censorship of California journalists is a preview of AI's future

Journalism Futures: A talk at 4 p.m. PT today (Zoom)

Journalism's visionary leaders and the voices missing from the room

Bob Iger and the unhappy politics of electoral inevitability

So you want to improve the economics of journalism...

Gannett's central role in the death of local journalism jobs

My interview with Adam Conover + California Senate testimony on the local news crisis

We can't save journalism by just begging people to subscribe

Once upon a time, Los Angeles voters created their own newspaper

What if we can't quit Instagram?

Meditations in a journalistic emergency

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