First thing on a Wednesday morning, Dave Lesher is putting out journalistic fires – tweaking headlines, prioritizing stories, worrying about a newsletter.
CALmatters is pleased to announce that Janet Clayton, senior vice president of corporate communications for Southern California Edison and its parent company Edison International, has joined the nonprofit news organization’s Board of Directors. “I have known Janet for many years at the LA Times, where she was a highly respected editorial page editor and Assistant […]
1. Trump mattered For months, the two top Republicans in the race, John Cox, a businessman from Rancho Santa Fe, and Huntington Beach Assemblyman Travis Allen, were within sniping distance of one another in most credible public opinion polls. Then, sometime between April and late May, something changed. Republican voters began to rally around the […]
It’s Election Day, and social media will be flooded with all sorts of commentary as the results come in for local and statewide races. We want to make your experience less of a firehose, so the staff at CALmatters will be curating the best tweeted insights, reactions and updates from influencers on the right and […]