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Musk and Trump Continue to Bash Reporters for Doing Their Jobs; the Local Devastation Caused by ICE Enforcement-Coachella Valley Independent's Indy Digest: July 27, 2026
5+ hour, 7+ min ago (548+ words) Indy Digest: July 27, 2026 The news media is not perfect. At times, people in power—politicians, business leaders, etc.—may have justified gripes regarding certain stories and even certain media sources. But when someone in power criticizes a wide swath of…...
The Trump Administration Subpoenas a Journalist's Mom's Phone Records; the Iran War Gets Deadlier-Coachella Valley Independent's Indy Digest: July 20, 2026
1+ week, 7+ hour ago (570+ words) Indy Digest: July 20, 2026 In the interest of full transparency, you should know today’s Indy Digest is being written by a cranky person. I’ve spent a chunk of the day dealing with someone who’s unhappy with a story we did. We…...
Fake News So 'Good' That It's Fooling Journalists; Remembering Kelly Davis, Kick-Ass Journalist and Person-Coachella Valley Independent's Indy Digest: July 2, 2026
3+ week, 4+ day ago (556+ words) Indy Digest: July 2, 2026 Earlier this week, a story in a publication called The Editorial, about a right-wing media organization buying up a bunch of Alabama newspapers—and replacing the reporting with AI-generated content—caught my eye. A bunch of journalists…...
The Independent Takes Home 28 California Journalism Awards; Chad Bianco Doesn't Want Outside Oversight of His Deadly Jails-Coachella Valley Independent's Indy Digest: June 25, 2026
1+ mon, 2+ day ago (299+ words) Indy Digest: June 25, 2026 The California News Publishers Association has announced the results of the California Journalism Awards for work done in 2025—and the Independent again did very, very well. Almost all of the publications in our category are much bigger…...
A Look at Our New AI Policy; Tom Steyer May Have Paid for That Social Media Post Saying Nice Things About Him-Coachella Valley Independent's Indy Digest: May 21, 2026
2+ mon, 6+ day ago (524+ words) Indy Digest: May 21, 2026 AI has been one of the hottest topics at every news-publishing conference I’ve attended in recent years. How should we use it? Should we use it at all? How should we deal with the fact that most…...
Good Journalism Requires Reporting and Writing, No Matter What an Editor in Cleveland Says; Lawmakers Work to Crack Down on DUIs-Coachella Valley Independent's Indy Digest: Feb. 16, 2026
5+ mon, 1+ week ago (680+ words) Indy Digest: Feb. 16, 2026 As a general rule, I avoid name-calling in my writing/reporting. For one thing, it’s not nice—and we certainly can use more nice in our world today. But a recent column by a fellow journalist was…...