California's three largest NBC stations — KNBC here in Los Angeles plus the outlets in San Diego and the Bay Area — are going in together on a new blog launching today called Prop Zero. Reporters, anchors and others will contribute, including Conan Nolan at Channel 4. The focus is on the state budget, money's influence on politics, education and unemployment. Or as they are referring to it within NBC, "cash, kids and jobs." "Hopefully, it will help raise the level of dialogue around these key issues," says Josh Kleinbaum, the former interactive editor for the Daily News and Los Angeles Newspaper Group who is now at NBC. The lead blogger is Joe Mathews, the former Los Angeles Times reporter who is now a senior fellow at the New America Foundation and a blogger at Fox & Hounds Daily.
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