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- Staffers at the Los Angeles Times are expecting a round of layoffs this week, the next shoe to drop in the recent combining of three weekly sections into a new Saturday section. We'll keep you posted on the moves in the newsroom.
- Breitbart.com's leadership will now be Steve Bannon as executive chairman, Laurence Solov as CEO, Joel Pollak as editor-in-chief and Alex Marlow as managing editor. Politico
- Budget cuts and a dysfunctional communications system have led to missed calls and slower response by the LAFD, says the LA Times.
- DA candidate Alan Jackson will file a lawsuit over Carmen Trutanich's claim of "chief prosecutor" as his ballot title in the race.
- Republicans in California are looking forward to a primary battle here over the presiential race to rival Goldwater-Rockefeller in 1964. Plus Controller candidate Cary Brazeman. Rick Orlov's Tipoff/DN
- A kitchen worker at Guido's in Malibu was beaten to death outside the restaurant. LAT
- Ex-Laker Derek Fisher and the Houston Rockets agreed to buy out his contract, while he considers other contending teams to join. ESPN LA
- C-SPAN founder Brian Lamb is stepping down as CEO of the channel he created. NYT
Plus Mark's Morning headlines at LA Biz Observed.
Some radio notes: Mark Lacter and I discuss the local media scene (and the Times layoffs picture) at 2:30 p.m. on KPFK's "Deadline LA" show. My regular LA Observed segment airs tonight at 6:44 p.m. on KCRW.
