Author

James O’Shea

@jameso43

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.”

Community Outreach and The Los Angeles Times

‘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…
March 19, 2012

The Great Young Hope

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…
March 19, 2012

Journalism of Value = Context for Communities

The approach the Chicago News Cooperative is ‘trying to use journalism to create communities organized around an interest in the news.’
June 8, 2011