Gabriel Kahn
@gabekahn.bsky.social
journalism prof. @USCAnnenberg, founder Crosstown: data-driven local news (xtownmedia.com), ex-@WSJ. Lacking sense of humor.
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December 18, 2025 at 7:33 PM
Looking for a place to direct your holiday giving? Billionaire Patrick Soon-Shiong has some ideas. Why not invest in a once-proud newspaper he has spent years destroying? He'll take your money.
Required reading: Think of local news like a local utility supplying essential services. And yes, this is what XTOWN Media does.
www.niemanlab.org/2025/12/loca...
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Local news starts becoming local infrastructure
"The news organizations that thrive will stop thinking of themselves as publishers and start operating as community information utilities."
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December 17, 2025 at 9:33 PM
Required reading: Think of local news like a local utility supplying essential services. And yes, this is what XTOWN Media does.
www.niemanlab.org/2025/12/loca...
www.niemanlab.org/2025/12/loca...
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Why is there more roadkill than ever before in Los Angeles? Lingering effects of the pandemic may be partly to blame.
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December 17, 2025 at 4:50 PM
Why is there more roadkill than ever before in Los Angeles? Lingering effects of the pandemic may be partly to blame.
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More animals are dying on LA streets than ever before. If you're a cat person, don't read this.
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December 17, 2025 at 3:09 AM
More animals are dying on LA streets than ever before. If you're a cat person, don't read this.
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Why are more animals than ever being run over on Los Angeles streets?
More animals than ever are dying on Los Angeles streets
Abandoned pets, increased urban sprawl are causing roadkill numbers to spike…
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December 16, 2025 at 3:34 PM
Why are more animals than ever being run over on Los Angeles streets?
Bold, searing take on what journalism might look like in a year, from Katya Gorchinskaya.
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www.niemanlab.org/2025/12/jour...
Journalism job postings will reflect our dystopia
"We're living in Donald Trump's world, where AI butlers give you answers faster than news websites load, where LLM bots scrape the Internet and will sell you stuff, and where war is moving closer — an...
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December 12, 2025 at 12:40 AM
Bold, searing take on what journalism might look like in a year, from Katya Gorchinskaya.
www.niemanlab.org/2025/12/jour...
www.niemanlab.org/2025/12/jour...
Private equity and big time college football. If ever a couple truly deserved one another.
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The risks and rewards of Utah’s private equity plans: Will others around college sports follow?
While other schools like Clemson and Kentucky have spun off similar entities, Utah would be the first to include outside investors.
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December 10, 2025 at 3:46 PM
Private equity and big time college football. If ever a couple truly deserved one another.
www.nytimes.com/athletic/687...
www.nytimes.com/athletic/687...
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BREAKING: WELL, WELL, WELL! Newly unearthed footage shows Pete Hegseth saying EXACTLY what the six Democrats said in their video that prompted Trump and Hegseth to hysterically smear them as traitors!
You must refuse illegal orders.
You must refuse illegal orders.
December 3, 2025 at 6:39 PM
BREAKING: WELL, WELL, WELL! Newly unearthed footage shows Pete Hegseth saying EXACTLY what the six Democrats said in their video that prompted Trump and Hegseth to hysterically smear them as traitors!
You must refuse illegal orders.
You must refuse illegal orders.
My greatest professional achievement came and went and I didn't even know about it. Some time in 2024, Laura Ingraham used me as the liberal punching bag du jour. Someone just sent me this pic.
December 2, 2025 at 7:05 PM
My greatest professional achievement came and went and I didn't even know about it. Some time in 2024, Laura Ingraham used me as the liberal punching bag du jour. Someone just sent me this pic.
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Today the Department of the Interior announced they will hold the six offshore lease sales across off of California. I wrote about Reagan’s Interior Secretary James Watt opening up 80 million acres of offshore waters to oil and gas about a year ago. The last offshore lease in California was 1984.
November 20, 2025 at 11:09 PM
Today the Department of the Interior announced they will hold the six offshore lease sales across off of California. I wrote about Reagan’s Interior Secretary James Watt opening up 80 million acres of offshore waters to oil and gas about a year ago. The last offshore lease in California was 1984.
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ChatGPT, what's a good name for an AI startup that hasn't been used already? Preferably something grandiose but that doesn't invoke the end of humanity?
November 18, 2025 at 2:54 AM
ChatGPT, what's a good name for an AI startup that hasn't been used already? Preferably something grandiose but that doesn't invoke the end of humanity?
Sometimes the news business just needs a headline like this.
November 6, 2025 at 3:42 AM
Sometimes the news business just needs a headline like this.
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O'DONNELL: Why did you pardon Changpeng Zhao?
TRUMP: Are you ready? I don't know who he is
O'DONNELL: His crypto exchange Binance helped facilitate a $2b purchase of World Liberty Financial's stablecoin. And they you pardoned him.
TRUMP: Here's the thing -- I know nothing about it
TRUMP: Are you ready? I don't know who he is
O'DONNELL: His crypto exchange Binance helped facilitate a $2b purchase of World Liberty Financial's stablecoin. And they you pardoned him.
TRUMP: Here's the thing -- I know nothing about it
November 3, 2025 at 12:56 AM
O'DONNELL: Why did you pardon Changpeng Zhao?
TRUMP: Are you ready? I don't know who he is
O'DONNELL: His crypto exchange Binance helped facilitate a $2b purchase of World Liberty Financial's stablecoin. And they you pardoned him.
TRUMP: Here's the thing -- I know nothing about it
TRUMP: Are you ready? I don't know who he is
O'DONNELL: His crypto exchange Binance helped facilitate a $2b purchase of World Liberty Financial's stablecoin. And they you pardoned him.
TRUMP: Here's the thing -- I know nothing about it
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Will Smith has a reading foundation and visits public schools. Just so you know the guy who hit that game winning homer has done good things for the LAUSD
Daughter comes out of school with a brand new Dodgers hat and I ask her where she got it.
"Oh this guy Will Smith from the Dodgers read us a story at school today"
"Oh this guy Will Smith from the Dodgers read us a story at school today"
November 2, 2025 at 4:26 AM
Will Smith has a reading foundation and visits public schools. Just so you know the guy who hit that game winning homer has done good things for the LAUSD
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I think 🤔 I see the problem.
October 30, 2025 at 10:15 PM
I think 🤔 I see the problem.
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A terrific AFP fact check uses reverse image searches to expose how a White House video took scenes from Florida, Texas, South Carolina and Nebraska and lied that they showed "Chicago is in chaos."
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October 16, 2025 at 2:07 PM
A terrific AFP fact check uses reverse image searches to expose how a White House video took scenes from Florida, Texas, South Carolina and Nebraska and lied that they showed "Chicago is in chaos."
factcheck.afp.com/doc.afp.com....
factcheck.afp.com/doc.afp.com....
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We made a list of the most dangerous intersections in Los Angeles.
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October 16, 2025 at 2:16 PM
We made a list of the most dangerous intersections in Los Angeles.
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Why is traffic in Los Angeles getting more lethal? These intersections tell part of the tale.
Why is traffic in Los Angeles getting more lethal? These intersections tell part of the tale.
The most dangerous intersections in Los Angeles
Over the past decade, the city’s streets have become significantly more lethal…
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October 15, 2025 at 9:58 PM
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Why is traffic in Los Angeles getting more lethal? These intersections tell part of the tale.
Why is traffic in Los Angeles getting more lethal? These intersections tell part of the tale.
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We ranked the 20 most dangerous intersections in Los Angeles.
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The most dangerous intersections in Los Angeles
Over the past decade, the city’s streets have become significantly more lethal…
xtown.la
October 15, 2025 at 9:10 PM
We ranked the 20 most dangerous intersections in Los Angeles.
xtown.la/2025/10/15/m...
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Hi Sally. When Weiss published a supposed expose on the death of George Floyd, a veteran criminal justice reporter showed in deep detail that the piece was not just wrong but filled with falsehoods and misrepresentations. Weiss did not retract the piece. What do you think of that?
This is really smart. Amazed at the hysteria over the ascendance of a woman entrepreneur who clearly knows how to cover and sell news and who's not afraid to take on a mob. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
Don’t Bet Against Bari Weiss
The new editor in chief of CBS News triumphs over her critics.
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October 12, 2025 at 6:20 PM
Hi Sally. When Weiss published a supposed expose on the death of George Floyd, a veteran criminal justice reporter showed in deep detail that the piece was not just wrong but filled with falsehoods and misrepresentations. Weiss did not retract the piece. What do you think of that?
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October 13, 2025 at 10:44 PM
Austin Beutner, former Los Angeles schools chief, deputy mayor and finance bigwig, is running for mayor. He also ran 14 years ago, then backed out. I spoke to him then. lamag.com/news/the-lon...
The Long Run - LAmag
Last month, Austin Beutner quit his job as first deputy mayor to embark on what some regard as a quixotic bid for city hall. Though the election is two years away, the former Wall Street executive has...
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October 13, 2025 at 5:43 PM
Austin Beutner, former Los Angeles schools chief, deputy mayor and finance bigwig, is running for mayor. He also ran 14 years ago, then backed out. I spoke to him then. lamag.com/news/the-lon...