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Jim Boren's Newsroom Notebook

Jim Boren

A behind-the-scenes journey into journalism and its future.

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When the reporters disappear, who’s watching city hall?

Now that the smoke is clearing from the hedge-fund-inspired cuts at McClatchy newspapers, we’re getting a clearer picture of its “news” strategy across 30 newsrooms from California to Florida. The direction is stark: fewer reporters, fewer...

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Journalists’ lament: PIO gatekeepers are deliberately blocking access to public officials

One of the concerns journalists raised during Thursday’s First Amendment program at Fresno State was a troubling barrier to access: Public officials are increasingly becoming less available to the journalists whose job is to cover them.

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The hedge fund that owns McClatchy newspapers has forfeited the right to use the McClatchy name

When I heard the news Thursday that the hedge fund that owns McClatchy’s 30 newspapers had decimated what was once one of the nation’s great newspaper groups, I immediately thought about two members of the McClatchy family I had the privile...

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Telling the stories of health care in the San Joaquin Valley

One of the challenges in this era of shrinking newsrooms is giving enough attention to important public policy issues that don’t drive clicks in the way crime, restaurant openings, traffic, weather, and local events do. Editors may not alwa...

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Valley Public Radio overcomes Congress' move to silence public radio in America

It has been just over a year since the Republican-led Congress cut federal funding for public broadcasting, citing allegations that PBS and NPR stations exhibited a liberal bias. The intent was clear: to silence these stations. That effort...

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