HeyJaredMatt Pearce
Journalist. Opinions my own. May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house.
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California roadmap (opens the original)
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The lessons of a miseducation (opens the original)
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What do you do with Saul Bellow today? (opens the original)
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The fight that Hollywood and newsrooms have in common (opens the original)
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California is about to do something really cool for local journalism (opens the original)
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A brief professional interlude: Readers of this newsletter, or followers who know me from online generally, probably do not know that these days I am the director of policy at Rebuild Local News, the leading U.S. nonprofit that advocates for subsidies for local news. I took the job after taking a buyout from the Los Angeles Times.This newsletter is usually more of a scratchpad for my other obsessions (I read a book a week and am currently on a diet of Garry Wills and Saul Bellow). But sometimes
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