Big Tech is flooding Vermont with lobbyists, now that state lawmakers are close to passing data privacy & children’s online safety bills. Read the full story from Sarah Mearhoff, who lays out the strategies used by industry advocates to resist regulation. vtdigger.org/2024/04/17/dis…

Anyway I just swung around to Gannett's 10-K which is how I learned that Mike Reed makes $3,379,449, which is listed as 66 times as much as the $51,035 made by the 'identified median compensated employee'

My 9-part podcast series Short Walk is out. It’s a look into a fatal crash that led to South Dakota’s first ever impeachment and what has come since. #sdleg

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i'm once again asking why is valentine's day in the middle of the week.

In Los Angeles Times layoffs, “The Latino Caucus will lose 38% of its members. The Black Caucus will lose 33% members. The AAPI [Asian American Pacific Islander] + MENASA [Middle East, North Africa, South Asia] caucuses will lose 34% of their combined membership.” journal-isms.com/2024/01/journa…

This industry will break your heart again and again.

He didn't like drama
and I was a state government reporter

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Start asking yourselves this before filing legislation

News: The LA Times Guild has called an emergency meeting today in light of the possibility of another major round of layoffs at the L.A. Times. “This is the big one.”

Among the bleakest of headlines in media news I’ve seen (and there is some stiff competition): “The Baltimore Sun explores the question of whether there can be a worse newspaper owner than Alden Global Capital”

do we think whoever is stocking the Berlin, Vermont Price Chopper is Very Online or do they have no idea why this is funny

It’s easy to treat the media as a punching bag. But look to the nation’s local newsrooms. For little money or recognition, reporters in 2023 stood up to power brokers who tried to bully them into silence, exposed corrupt officials and even saved lives. Proof, from every state:

‘The miracle of the dog’: The Vermont attorney general’s office’s star K-9 — a chubby yellow lab named Mojo — is prolific at his job, sniffing out child sex abuse materials. And he does so much more. By moi for VTDigger : vtdigger.org/2023/12/24/in-…

Vermont floodwaters have frozen into ephemeral rinks, icing over lawns and marshes and farm fields, popping and cracking underfoot, until the next warm day

There’s nothing quite like the aesthetic of a Capitol press room and yet every day, Vermont Statehouse rats* are denied this simple pleasure in life

*it’s me, I’m the rat who wants a musty desk

the spotify programmer telling everyone to move to burlington