AFTRA members approve contract

The three-year deal passes with a 62% vote of the membership, leaving SAG out there alone. "It's hard to not see this as a setback [for SAG] because they invested so much in this and drew a line in the sand," said David Smith, a labor economist at Pepperdine University. "It's probably going to limit their ability to negotiate for what they want." LAT, AP, Variety

Congestion pricing may switch to Harbor Freeway

Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa has proposed shifting the test toll lanes to the 110 freeway from the 210. LAT, SGVT

Mayor Caruso's Los Angeles

Former "Tonight Show" writer Brad Dickson imagines developer Rick Caruso's city of Cheesecake Factories instead of schools, streetcars to nowhere and streaming Sinatra tunes 24/7. LAT Op-Ed

Nuñez aide got $100,000 for 'campaign consulting'

Former Assembly Speaker Fabian Nuñez gave the money to his chief of staff, Daniel Eaton, from a ballot measure fundraising committee. LAT

Interview with LAPD chief of detectives

Deputy Chief Charles Beck, head of LAPD’s Detective Bureau, defends the tactics used in the Martha Puebla case, talks about officers who cheat and says when he worked undercover he had evidence planted on him by LAPD cops. Witness LA

Also: Judge leans in favor of LAPD finances disclosure. LAT

Dean Logan gets county Registrar-Recorder job

The Board of Supervisors voted unanimously to move him from interim to the formal replacement for Conny McCormack, who retired in January. DN

When Los Angeles was a boxing town

Inspired by the deaths of Art Aragon and Mando Ramos, Tim Rutten remembers when boxing was pretty big here. LAT Op-Ed

Interview with Gustavo Arellano

The OC Weekly journalist talks about his "¡Ask a Mexican!"column and book with Carolyn Kellogg at Jacket Copy, where a commenter observes, "well he still *hasn't* answered my question of how rice wound up in my burrito." Jacket Copy

Emily Gould gets a book

The former Gawker editor who wrote a revealing but widely panned New York Times Magazine cover story about her life online has sold "And the Heart Says...'Whatever' to Free Press, which calls it "an honest, searching and wry set of recollections that together weave a picture of what it's like to be a young person in New York City in the early 2000s." For publication in 2010. Publishers Lunch

More internal bickering at KPFK

On-air host Ian Masters appears to be at the center of it. LA Indy Media

Daily Bruin reporter wins prize

Robert Faturechi, now at the Seattle Times, won an award from the Institute on Political Journalism for "a piece on the influences of donations on college admission decisions. This award recognizes excellence in collegiate reporting in which the student's work demonstrates an understanding of the basic ideas that support a free society, including freedom of the press and freedom of speech." Release

Robert Lobdell, former L.A. Times general counsel was 82

He was known as a strong defender of journalists doing their jobs. He was the father of Times reporter William Lobdell. LAT

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