Gretchen A. Peck

1 month ago | editorandpublisher.com | Casey Newton |Gretchen A. Peck

Posted Wednesday, March 12, 2025 12:00 am Right now, I spend a lot of time writing about AI companies. AI companies are small compared to Google or Meta — in terms of the number of users, revenue and employees. They’re small by the standards of the behemoths, but they’re also massively consequential.” Technology is a huge part of the contemporary American story and economy. According to statistical data analyst Statista, in 2023 alone, the U.S. tech sector contributed nearly $2 trillion to...

1 month ago | editorandpublisher.com | Scott Horsley |Gretchen A. Peck

What I’ve always enjoyed about being a reporter, in general, and it’s certainly true of being an economics reporter, is that it’s an opportunity to learn something new every day.” Editor & Publisher’s “Reporting On” series takes readers inside the day-to-day work of reporters tasked with covering crises and sweeping public policy issues. This month, we focus on the U.S. economy, with the sage perspective of three veteran economic reporters, to learn how their career paths led them to this...

1 month ago | editorandpublisher.com | Sarah Bennett |Gretchen A. Peck

Posted Tuesday, February 25, 2025 7:15 am We’re a community college and a predominantly Hispanic-serving institution. ... A lot of [students] are trying to stay local, and they see gaps in news and information in their own communities. So, we talk a lot about how they can fill those gaps and then how to get paid to fill them.” The best way to learn journalism is by doing journalism. That’s the educational philosophy at Santa Ana College in Santa Ana, California. The college offers three...

2 months ago | editorandpublisher.com | Leonard Woolsey |Gretchen A. Peck

Posted Monday, February 3, 2025 12:00 am I am all about being held accountable for the truth, as do those I work alongside at The Daily News, but God help us if the truth is suppressed by our fear of an army of lawyers showing up on our doorstep, akin to a mobster sending in his or her muscle.” The U.S. press is in crisis. Beyond the market pressures that have for years now carved newsrooms hollow, external threats — of a physical, rhetorical and legal nature — abound. The U.S. Press Freedom...

Jan 21, 2025 | editorandpublisher.com | Bruce Auster |Gretchen A. Peck

Posted Tuesday, January 21, 2025 12:00 am We were launching the Texas newsroom when the El Paso shooting happened. Literally, a couple weeks prior to the launch of that newsroom, there was the terrible shooting at the Walmart in El Paso, Texas. We jumped into action and provided remarkable team coverage across the state.” There are more than 200 National Public Radio (NPR) affiliate stations around the country, and the combined newsrooms employ approximately 2,900 reporters, editors and...