About Matt Pearce
I’m a writer and public policy advocate in Los Angeles who writes about power, media and democracy.
I was a staff writer at the Los Angeles Times, where I covered national news, politics and culture. I contributed to the 2023 Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News. I helped unionize the newsroom and co-founded and led Media Guild of the West, a NewsGuild-CWA local that represents local journalists across the Southwest U.S. As a labor leader I thought Big Tech needed as much if not even more scrutiny than media companies for what was happening to local news.
In my day job, I help work on public subsidies that support local journalists.
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