Exec Editor at The LA Local. Enjoy the bagels.
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I spend most of my waking hours thinking about the sustainability of local news, and its vital role in democracy. Today we're announcing a new program that shows a promising path forward.medium.com/engagement-at-kpc…
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Our records show you have been registered in LA County since 2006, and we have never received notice that you moved out of state. We also see that you completed a change of address with USPS in Aug. 2025 within LA County, which kept your registration active. (1/2).
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nytimes.com/2026/09/25/techn…
When the whole team been repping parse.bot since day one.
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Also, check out this editorial that I contributed to with my human hands:
dailycal.org/opinion/editori…
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Today, @dailycal revealed that UC Berkeley has been using AI to write obituaries. As it turns out, this was just the tip of the iceberg. For more, check out our reporting:
dailycal.org/news/berkeley-s…
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Companies are paying people a lot of money to train AI.
We hit the streets, tried to get hired, and met the people already teaching today's leading AI models.
Watch it here 👇
00:00 AI is coming for your job
01:12 Applying to become an AI trainer
02:07 Asking people about training AI
03:51 AI training gigs
06:07 Interview with Micro1 CEO
07:10 Real Doctor training AI
09:54 Would you trust AI to make medical decisions?
12:55 Did Sam get the AI trainer gig?
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man, who should we believe: someone who's virtually never gotten along with her colleagues in a true newsroom and was previously accused of being a terrible manager at their previous stop, or the multi-Emmy-Peabody-Polk award winner beloved by his co-workers?
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Pelley with no fucks to give is even better than usual strength Pelley.
NEW: In @NickBilton’s first all-hands meeting at 60 Minutes this morning, @ScottPelley told Nick he had “scant qualifications” for the job and pressed him to account for last week’s firings.
Nick suggested conversation would be better held in private, Scott countered that he’d prefer to have them in front of his colleagues.
Nick told Scott, “they’re my colleagues too,” to which Scott replied: “that remains to be seen.”
I’ll have much more in tonight’s In The Room: puck.news/newsletters/in-the…
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Why The Corporation for Public Broadcasting is NOT like a human appendix open.substack.com/pub/kriste…
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What really happened with the Pacific Palisades water hydrants? - LAist apple.news/As4mp079JRXCrvA03…
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The planes are up again!!!!!! Photo taken from upper Tigertail looking toward Mandeville. #palisadesfire
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"There has never been a more urgent time in our history to connect us back to our communities and open ourselves to fresh perspectives," @KrisMul says. buff.ly/3OIAbDw
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"Steel’s meals program cost taxpayers more than triple the amount per meal compared to two other districts."
Plus no delivery.
Excellent reporting by @nicholasgerda & @josie_huang
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Honored to be profiled by @GustavoArellano in his column. He notes this work is what results when "news organizations invest in local journalism, let reporters dig instead of writing clickbait and stand by them in the face of critics real and imagined." latimes.com/california/story…
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This is now the third contract in a month to be cancelled with MindOC/Be Well for mental health services in Orange County.
I'm still trying to piece together what, exactly, happened with the grand plans.
DM me if you have thoughts/experiences.
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"There’s plenty of sad stories about people paying 50 or 60% of their income for housing... But not 112%. It doesn’t work."
How did a 22-year-old law student afford a $1 million home at the center of civil fraud allegations? Read @nicholasgerda's deep dive on this home purchase.
NEW: What our investigation has found about a million-dollar home purchase last year by O.C. Supervisor Andrew Do’s then 22-year-old daughter, and its links to someone whose company (per records) received millions in tax dollars that are unaccounted for.
laist.com/news/politics/rhia…
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It’s California Public Radio Day! I’m out reporting an important story re alleged fraudulent use of public tax $ in OC. If you know we need this kind of journalism, support it. LAist.com/give #capublicradio
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BREAKING: The FBI is raiding a home bought by O.C. Supervisor Andrew Do’s daughter, after an LAist investigation into millions of taxpayer dollars Supervisor Do quietly directed to a little-known nonprofit his daughter was listed as leading.
laist.com/news/politics/oran…
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A 4.7 magnitude earthquake occurred 2.49mi SW of South Pasadena, California. Details: eqbot.com/yfU Map: eqbot.com/yf5