"Art and culture also have a serious economic impact on this city. According to the most recent Otis Report on the Creative Economy, one in eight regional jobs in L.A. and Orange County are generated by the creative industry, which has a total economic output of over $230 billion annually." The LA Times recently laid of its arts and architecture…
Stephen Colbert called us out and we totally missed it. A couple of years ago when broadcast news went from analog to digital, our journalism professors were outraged and we didn't understand why. We thought they were just dinosaurs from a different era who resisted change. Turns out they could foresee the future and we're living it today. You see,…
On Friday, May 17th the New York Times published an article written by A.O. Scott that examines depictions of the American Dream and materialism in three different films: The Great Gatsby, Spring Breakers, and The Bling Ring. He essentially says that these films update the American Dream to be more about entitlement than hard work as a reflection of our…
With the advent of the 24-hour news cycle, news-on-demand, breaking news on social media, bloggers, and the free market of ideas and news that the Internet has provided, it is safe to say that traditional print journalism will never be as it was before. The days of graduating from college, getting a job at a paper, and working your way…