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  • Archives as Commons

    The Santa Barbara News-Press was born in 1868 and died in 2023 at age 155. Its glory years ran from 1932 until 2000, when the New York Times sold it to Wendy McCaw, who rode it to hell. That ride began with the Santa Barbara News Press Controversy in 2006 and ended when Ampersand, the company McCaw created… Continue reading

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  • The Online Local Chronicle

    After we came to Bloomington in the summer of 2021, we rented an apartment by Prospect Hill, a quiet dome of old houses just west of downtown. There we were surprised to hear, nearly every night, as many police and ambulance sirens as we’d heard in our Manhattan apartment. Helicopters too. Soon we realized why:… Continue reading

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  • Deeper News

    Fifth in the News Commons series. Let’s say you’re a public official. Or an engineer. Or a journalist researching a matter of importance, such as a new reservoir or a zoning change. What do you need? In a word, facts. This should go without saying, but it bears saying because lots of facts are hard… Continue reading

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