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The L.A. Daily News got itself a new publisher and CEO Monday. Tracy Rafter had been a senior VP for the Los Angeles Newspaper Group, the chain of DN owner Dean Singleton's local papers. Says she: "I have come to love the Valley and this newspaper." The former publisher, John Schueler, now runs the newspaper group.
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