Friday media notes

  • The Internet has surpassed TV as the biggest source of political news for Californians under 35, the PPIC finds.
  • LAT critic Christopher Hawthorne looks at how Tuesday's election results may slow down local transit projects.
  • Blogdowntown, which debuted in print this year, is taking another step: hiring its first full-time editor to oversee content.
  • Journalist Ken Broder blogs about looking for a job more than a year after his layoff from the L.A. Times: "I’ve got my eye on one right now at the Los Angeles Times where I worked for 19 years. I’m pretty sure it’s a job I am well-suited for, since it’s the job I used to have. Apparently the fresh-faced, newly-minted graduate they hired as an intern only days after my departure is now on staff and well-regarded."
  • Activist Ron Kaye pronounces AEG's pitch for a new football stadium and more at L.A. Live too good to be true.
  • Last night was Rahm Emanuel's Hollywood fundraiser for his campaign for mayor of Chicago.
  • Ryan Seacrest has launched a foundation "to build broadcast media centers within pediatric hospitals for children to explore the creative realms of radio, television and new media."
  • Writer Daniel Hernandez blogs about turning 30 in Tijuana.
  • The September cover of Harper's Bazaar with Jennifer Aniston was the magazine's best-selling issue in seven years.
  • Ten key lessons for hyperlocal journalism startups.

More by Kevin Roderick:
Ralph Lawler of the Clippers and the age of Aquarius
Riding the Expo Line to USC 'just magical'
Last bastion of free parking? Loyola Marymount to charge students
Matt Kemp, Dodgers and Kings start big weekend the right way
LA Times writers revisit their '92 riots observations
Recent Media people stories on LA Observed:
Ralph Lawler of the Clippers and the age of Aquarius
LA Times writers revisit their '92 riots observations
Shelby Coffey, LA Times editor then, on the night the riots erupted
20 years since the riots with Warren Olney and 'Which Way, LA?'
Morning Buzz: Wednesday 4.25.12

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