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Wednesday, December 01, 2010
Law - "As newspapers shrink, journalists land jobs in state government "
Rob Gurwitt has a lengthy article today in Stateside. It is pretty interesting, here is why:
Had Vogel’s reporting appeared in the Times, it would have been front-page news. Instead, her work had a smaller, although more influential, audience: state legislators and staffers in a position to do something about what she’d found.
That’s because late in 2008, Vogel left the Times’ state capitol bureau and went to work for state government in the new Senate Office of Oversight and Outcomes. Created by Senate President Pro Tem Darrel Steinberg, the office is designed “to professionalize oversight and institutionalize it across the board,” in Steinberg’s words. But it does so in an unusual way: Its three “consultants” — Sacramento committee-speak for research and policy staff — are all former reporters.
Posted by Marcia Oddi on December 1, 2010 05:03 PM
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