CalMatters has been bringing Californians a trusted, nonpartisan Voter Guide since the 2018 election, and this fall, we’re making it more accessible than ever before, with in-person events, printables, zines, new languages and more. Plus, on top of everything new we’re debuting, this year’s Voter Guide will, once again, bring you our existing, trusted ways of informing voters: our nonpartisan guide, the Props-in-a-Minute videos, interactive quizzes, FAQs and early ballot prep. 🖨️ Learn more about how to get your hands on our free online and IRL resources: https://lnkd.in/ghqfeJAx 📄 Want us to mail you free copies of the Voter Guide Zine to share with friends and family? Become a sustaining member today: https://cal.news/3MPulPD 📸 Alexandra Hootnick
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Last week I wrapped up my internship with CalMatters and I wanted to highlight the last few projects I completed there. With the support of my editor, I produced a collection of op-eds from first-time voters across California and wrote my own column about the importance of understanding why our neighbors and fellow citizens turn out at the ballot box. Additionally, I had the privilege of covering Proposition 3, which would repeal language in the California Constitution prohibiting same-sex marriage and enshrine the right at the state level. My time with CalMatters was an incredible learning experience and I am so grateful for the opportunity and guidance of my editor, Yousef Baig! Check out the pieces at these links: https://lnkd.in/gDWeMpYb https://lnkd.in/gXzsYXZd https://lnkd.in/gSrqCgTJ
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California lawmakers passed more than a dozen bills to regulate artificial intelligence recently that will get signed into law or vetoed by Governor Gavin Newsom. I wrote about what passed and didn't pass for CalMatters and talked about it with KQED and Tech Policy Press. https://lnkd.in/gZbgmnBj https://lnkd.in/g6g_WBA8 Know a California public interest tech story I should be writing about? Email me at khari@calmatters.org https://lnkd.in/g6g_WBA8
What California lawmakers did to regulate artificial intelligence
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A community as vast and diverse as Los Angeles needs news options that meets people where they are. The Los Angeles Local News Initiative raised $15 million to support this effort and is working with about 20 different media organizations to tell stories across 244 different zip codes. As part of this coalition, CalMatters will boost its reporting efforts in Los Angeles as well.
Ambitious collaboration boosts journalism in Los Angeles
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Announced today: L.A. Local News Initiative launches to revitalize news in Los Angeles. The L.A. Local News Initiative, a nonprofit organization led by Angelenos, is a coalition of journalism and philanthropic organizations that aims to increase critical news coverage in Los Angeles. Reporting at the neighborhood, regional, and state levels enables residents to navigate local life, take effective action, and increase accountability journalism to keep government spending in check. As part of the initiative, CalMatters will add new journalists dedicated to coverage that serves Angelenos. The expansion builds on CalMatters’ current Los Angeles coverage, particularly on issues such as homelessness, education, the environment and justice. CalMatters also informs the region in unique ways, through Jim Newton's commentary and the AI-powered Digital Democracy database. Supporting funders represent a cross-section of individuals, local foundations, and national philanthropy, with anchor funding from The Eli and Edythe Broad Foundation, the Spiegel Family Fund, and American Journalism Project, as well as support from Annenberg Foundation, Weingart Foundation, California Community Foundation, The James Irvine Foundation, The Ralph M. Parsons Foundation, The Rosalinde and Arthur Gilbert Foundation, and Jane and Ron Olson. Learn more: https://cal.news/4ei6Z0H
The L.A. Local News Initiative, announced today, is a $15 million effort to grow and support local news in the region. The initiative will operate and support local newsrooms covering neighborhood, regional and state levels in service of Los Angeles communities. The initiative is using input gathered from 900 Angelenos across the region as part of an extensive community engagement effort led by AJP and local civic leaders. L.A. Local News Initiative will: 📌 Fill gaps in community journalism through hyperlocal publications in areas that need more coverage. This approach is modeled after that of Boyle Heights Beat, an outlet that serves as a primary, trusted source for Boyle Heights and East LA residents. 📌 Invest in more regional reporting by bolstering the reporting teams at LAist and CalMatters. These teams will work together to produce original accountability reporting on all issues facing L.A. 📌 Foster collaboration across LA. By investing in content sharing and shared resources, the initiative will help existing outlets bring more journalism to more people. So far, it has formed collaborative partnerships with 20 media outlets and universities. Supported by the Eli and Edythe Broad Foundation, Spiegel Family Fund and American Journalism Project, among others, the L.A. Local News Initiative is part of a national movement to reimagine #localnews.
Media leaders and philanthropists join forces to revitalize local news in Los Angeles - American Journalism Project
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🎉 📹 Welcome, Robert Meeks!
Hey everyone, I’m officially on the team! Happy to share that I’ve joined CalMatters as the Director of Video Strategy — I started working with this great team earlier this year to launch SoCal Matters, our regional series in collaboration with PBS SoCal. Thanks to Kristen Go, Neil Chase and the CalMatters crew. Let’s go!
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Birth centers are shuttering across the state–nineteen of them since 2020–and midwives say the state’s inflexible licensing requirements are to blame. In our California issue, we partnered with CalMatters to examine this deepening maternity care crisis. While most births in California take place in hospitals, birth centers serve a small but growing number of families, and health experts have pointed to birth centers as a way to expand capacity in communities where hospitals no longer deliver babies. The midwife-run clinics handle low-risk births and direct higher-risk pregnancies to hospitals. Licensure isn’t required; only six operating birth centers are licensed in California, while another 26 are unlicensed. But licensing enables practices to work with insurance plans and helps them serve lower-income families who can’t cover birthing costs out of pocket. Increasingly, only wealthy families who pay cash can afford to have a midwife or give birth outside of a hospital. More than 50 California hospital labor and delivery wards have closed in the past decade, creating maternity care deserts in rural communities and overburdening the remaining labor wards in cities and suburbs. Read more about the crisis and hear from those on the front lines here: https://lnkd.in/gUnNQh-y Story by Kristen Hwang; photos by Ariana Drehsler
CA Birth Center Closures Deepen an Existing Maternity Care Crisis
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The California Supreme Court's July ruling upholding Prop. 22 effectively ensures gig workers are independent contractors and not employees. That means the state labor commissioner's office — which has done its best to help keep gig companies accountable over the years — no longer has jurisdiction over individual gig workers' complaints. I examined nearly 200 wage claims gig workers filed with the state since 2020, a fourth of them directly related to Prop. 22. The issues gig workers complain about aren't going away. Now what? Here's my story for CalMatters: https://lnkd.in/gk645RRa #gigwork #gigworkers #proposition22 #prop22 #uber #instacart
California companies wrote their own gig worker law. Now no one is enforcing it
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Young voters in California may be a decisive voting bloc in six toss-up House races that could determine the balance of power in Congress. Earlier this month Jenna Peterson and I chatted with first time voters and election analysts for CalMatters to gauge how the celebrity appearances, memes and energy surrounding the Harris campaign could bring out young voters who were unenthused by a second Biden term. Here's what we found: • Harris leads Trump among those younger voters 73% to 22% and overall by 59% to 34%, according polling released on Aug. 14. • Young voters made the difference for Democrats in 2020. Turnout among voters 18 to 29 spiked 11 percentage points to 50%, which was key in helping Biden defeat Trump. • In 2022, Republicans swung three seats to help the GOP take control of the House. In six battleground districts, registered Gen Z voters would have been enough to flip the races, according to data from the Center for Inclusive Democracy. To read our full coverage of young voters in California and learn more about elections in your area, visit CalMatters.org. https://lnkd.in/gm5V6CmM
TikTok, Brat and Kamala Harris: Will newly fired-up young voters flip elections in California?
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Incredibly proud to share this piece for CalMatters about systemic sexual harassment in California politics. I had the oppurtunity to speak with some incredible and inspiring women for this article and am proud to share my own experiences to inform the emotional side of the issue from a survivor’s perspective. Huge thanks to my editor, Yousef Baig for the support! Read it here: https://lnkd.in/et2qsZmv
California politics still struggles with sexual harassment. San Francisco's latest reckoning could help
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