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California may not have gay marriage, but it's about to get its first openly gay speaker of the Assembly — Democrat John Perez of Los Angeles. The Assembly speaker is the second or third most powerful position in state politics, after the governor and...
Tags: John Perez, Los Angeles, Assemblywomen Nancy Skinner, Assembly Democratic Caucus, Oakland Tribune, childhood education, Oakland Mayor Ron Dellums, California Legislative Analyst's Office, early childhood, Oakland's Fox Theater, France, Bart, Don Perata, Citizen journalism, Oakland California, BART Police shooting of Oscar Grant, Willie Brown (politician), Alameda California, The Oakland Tribune, Bay Area Rapid Transit
It took Mike Boon a few years of blogging until he finally beat the mainstream media to a story, an especially big accomplishment considering he lives in Toronto, with its hyper-competitive media market and four newspapers fighting for scoops. And it...
Tags: Torontoist.com, citizen journalism, mainstream media, DJ Humble Howard, Len Brody, Mike Boon, Alfred Hermida, Howard Glassman, Canada, Toronto, Orato, Hermida, DigitalJournal.com, News websites, Entertainment Culture, Examiner.com, NowPublic
It’s widely accepted that the media circus surrounding the 1995 murder trial of O.J. Simpson in Los Angeles intensified when Judge Lance Ito allowed the case to be televised. The conventional wisdom is that the resulting “ observer effect ,” in which...
Tags: Los Angeles Superior Court, Johannes Mehserle, France, Bart, Citizen journalism, BART Police shooting of Oscar Grant, Bay Area Rapid Transit, Law Crime, Fruitvale, BART Police, Lance Ito, O. J. Simpson murder trial, Oakland California, Taser, Rafael Pᅢᄅrez, Jury
As has been advised, Ken Anderson, the Owner and Editor of Magic City Morning Star News is offline, and it is not known when he will return. Many contributors to Magic City Morning Star News (including Michael Michaud's Staff) do not read Magic City Morning...
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A Napa man has been ordered to stay away from two Napa police officers and the Napa Police headquarters following behavior the officers said is threatening. The city of Napa filed a request in August for restraining orders against Jarvis Peay on behalf...
Tags: Brian Campagna, Jarvis Peay, Napa Police, Mr. Peay, Napa City Council, police officer, staying away, restraining orders, Evan Livingstone, Napa, Citizen journalism, Transit police, Napa California, BART Police shooting of Oscar Grant, Campagna, Bay Area Rapid Transit
The Associated Press is partnering with other international news organizations on an online hub where readers can interact with journalists covering the climate talks opening next week in Copenhagen. The page on the social-networking site Facebook is...
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Johnston Press is introducing "paywalls" on the websites of six of its titles including the Northumberland Gazette and the Worksop Guardian . Readers will be asked to pay £5 for a three-month subscription or to buy the newspapers, which also include the...
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Hey guys, I thought I would try to perform ' a random act of journalism', just to look at whether it is really true that I can write a random article (that is credible or NOT) and then it gets published and the public can read it with an impression that...
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Just a few months after solving the last major budget crisis, California lawmakers are now facing a massive new one. According to the nonpartisan Legislative Analyst's Office, next year's expected deficit has now ballooned to $20.7 billion because of...
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In this digital age, the general public has access to news on a level never seen before. But not only are the public consuming the information found online, they are also contributing to it in a way that was never possible before. Personal blogs and...
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