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Unpacking the New California Subsidy for News
Welcome to Second Rough Draft, a newsletter about journalism in our time, how it (often its business) is evolving, and the challenges it faces.
Last week, outgoing California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a bill establishing an estimated $40 mi...
The White House Press Corps Needs to Stop Compromising with Trump—and On Its Own Integrity
Welcome to Second Rough Draft, a newsletter about journalism in our time, how it (often its business) is evolving, and the challenges it faces.
As the Declaration of Independence was being signed in Philadelphia in July 1776, Benjamin Fran...
McClatchy, Cutting Newsrooms, Says the Quiet Part Out Loud
Welcome to Second Rough Draft, a newsletter about journalism in our time, how it (often its business) is evolving, and the challenges it faces.
When I say publicly, as I occasionally do, that most of the nation’s for-profit metro newspaper...
Pentagon News Follies and the Historic Failure in Iran
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During the Vietnam War, the US command in Saigon hosted press briefings most days at 4:45pm. Be...
The Real Issues, Once and Again
Welcome to Second Rough Draft, a newsletter about journalism in our time, how it (often its business) is evolving, and the challenges it faces.
Forty-six summers ago, at the age of 23, I had my first piece published outside of a student pa...
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Dick Tofel was the founding general manager and first employee of ProPublica, and its president from 2013 until 2021. He is now principal of Gallatin Advisory LLC and author of the newsletter Second Rough Draft, https://dicktofel.substack.com/
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