James O’Shea

About James O’Shea

James O’Shea, editor of the Chicago News Cooperative, is the former editor of the Los Angeles Times and the author of "The Deal From Hell: How Moguls and Wall Street Plundered Great American Newspapers."

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Community Outreach and The Los Angeles Times

By James O’Shea• Features• March 19, 2012

‘The Los Angeles Times is still uniquely positioned to fill a huge public need—aggressive coverage of California, a state with problems that equal its heft, a state hit particularly hard by the recession …’ Read more

The Great Young Hope

By James O’Shea• Technology• March 19, 2012

I wish I could say that revolutionizing newsrooms like the one I left at the Los Angeles Times in January 2008 is all that’s needed to change the fortunes of American journalism. But I can’t. RELATED ARTICLE … Read more

Journalism of Value = Context for Communities

By James O’Shea• Local News• June 8, 2011

The approach the Chicago News Cooperative is ‘trying to use journalism to create communities organized around an interest in the news.’ Read more