Morning Buzz

Morning Buzz: Friday 6.15.12

Politics and government

New city librarian: John Szabo, who has run the much smaller Atlanta-Fulton Public Library System since 2005. He was appointed by Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa. Library Journal, LA Weekly, LAT

Villaraigosa and LAPD Chief Charlie Beck were both out of town for parade and rally to celebrate the LA Kings' Stanley Cup win. LA Weekly, DN

Gov. Jerry Brown sits down with Marc Cooper and "outlines his pragmatic but uphill battle to bring a fragile Golden State to a safe fiscal landing." Pacific Standard


Media and media people

A writer for The Atlantic Cities takes the side of Metro over Beverly Hills in the debate over which of two routes for a subway tunnel to follow into Century City. Atlantic Cities

Dorothy Lucey, dropped as "Good Day LA" host on Fox 11, will co-host “The Young Turks” with Cenk Uygur on Current TV tonight. He was a former guest on the Channel 11 show. Politically Lucey has described herself as a “liberal Christian.” TVSpy

Photographer Harry Benson talks about his coverage of The Beatles at 1:40 p.m. on "Patt Morrison" on KPCC.

Jerry Jacobs, a TV news producer who worked for Channel 2 and Channel 7 and NBC, and taught journalism at UCLA and Cal State Northridge, died in the Monterey area at age 84. He had metastatic melanoma.


More

Disney's five-year, $1 billion remake of California Adventure has opened. Theme Park Insider

Time Magazine's cover this week features undocumented California students Mandeep Chahal and Julio Salgado, with an essay inside by journalist Jose Antonio Vargas, the former Washington Post reporter who wrote last year about being undocumented.

A hundred cyclists are expected for a group ride to Watts Towers on Sunday to celebrate and test a community bicycling map in South Los Angeles. On Central

Hollywood production designer Michael Riva died after suffering a stroke on location in New Orleans while working on "Django Unchained," the first film shot outside of Los Angeles that he agreed to work on in 16 years. He was 63 and the grandson of Marlene Dietrich. Huffington Post, THR


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