Accelerated by the COVID pandemic, a shift by state officials toward emails and written statements is making it more difficult for journalists to be watchdogs for Californians.

The California Journalism Preservation Act directs big tech companies to pay publishers a “journalism usage fee” each time they use local news content and sell advertising alongside it. In turn, the bill requires news publishers to invest 70% of the profits from the usage fee in journalism jobs.

A ProPublica/Washington Post analysis of Facebook posts, internal company documents and interviews, provides the clearest evidence yet that the social media giant played a critical role in spreading lies that fomented the violence of Jan. 6.

A federal jury had returned 28 convictions of Michael Kail of Los Gatos onfraud and money laundering for payments from tech startups seeking Netflix contracts.

One website, MyTurn, part of California’s technological response to the pandemic, proved difficult even for epidemiologists. 

Podcasters Carmen Sánchez and Manuel Ávalos offer a weekly podcast all about San Jose legends and ghostly tales.

Websites for Hulu, Reddit, Twitch and The New York Times crashed for about an hour this morning, after failures at the internet company.

Last week Facebook carried out what may have been the single largest content takedown in its history. Any content that looked vaguely like news, even if it very much was not, disappeared from the platform in Australia. The company was demonstrating its opposition to a law now passed by the Australian Parliament that could require technology companies to compensate news organizations for their content.

SJI se ha asociado con ProPublica para su proyecto Electionland, una colaboración a nivel nacional para investigar problemas de votación.

The Electionland collaboration investigates issues with voting such as mail ballot delivery problems, purged voter rolls and registration errors.

Downtown leaders aim to help small businesses on the brink and may even take on a bigger role in curbing the growing homeless population.

Her death was announced by her husband, who called her “the light of my life and the source of every important blessing I have enjoyed.”

Somewhere between the dancing leprechaun, adult film star, Miss Universe and broadcasting ventriloquists, some actual football conversations took place.

San Jose Inside has learned that Kerry Hillis, a policy aide currently on leave from county Supervisor Cindy Chavez’ staff, purchased the anonymous attack blog The Daily Fetch from political consultant Jay Rosenthal in late 2012, according to a source. Hillis has also done work for San Jose's police union and mayoral candidate Dave Cortese.

Pat Meyering, the Sunnyvale city councilman who’s target of a recall effort, has repeatedly accused his colleagues of enriching themselves on the public dime. In reality, Meyering takes home the second-highest compensation of anyone on the council.

Philip Bump’s ascension from suspected hatchet man to prodigious blogger and Tweeter has been an extraordinary rise over the last half-decade.