Topic Archive: Media people
That, of course, is the roller derby name for KPCC's Alex Cohen, local host for NPR's "All Things Considered." She was on "Oprah" today in a piece on the Derby... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted November 4, 2009 3:38 PM
The layoff of Alonso Duralde from MSNBC means ten members of the Los Angeles Film Critics Association have lost their gigs in the last 18 months, says David Poland at... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted November 2, 2009 2:52 PM
Dana Goodyear's profile, almost a year in the making, calls the LA Weekly's Jonathan Gold "the high-low priest of the L.A. food scene." Subscription required to read the whole piece,... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted November 2, 2009 8:51 AM
Clearing the decks for the new week: USC president Steven Sample announced that he would step down in August, after 19 years. Honors student Melody Ross, 16, was shot and... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted November 1, 2009 11:55 PM
Gawker's Valleywag says that the Los Angeles bureau of Forbes was eliminated in today's mass cutbacks across the magazine. The site says that staff writers Evan Hessel and Scott Woolley... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted October 29, 2009 4:12 PM
Readers of The Independent in Great Britain will get their own report tomorrow on Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's email finger sent to state assemblyman Tom Ammiano, with whom the governor recently... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted October 28, 2009 5:45 PM
Last night's winds knocked out the power at Book Soup for the first half hour or so of Jesse Katz's launch party for The Opposite Field, his new memoir about... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted October 28, 2009 12:20 PM
New author Robert Hilburn got a pretty nice shout-out for "Corn Flakes with John Lennon And Other Tales from a Rock 'n' Roll Life" at last night's U2 show at... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted October 26, 2009 9:21 PM
Amy Wallace, the editor-at-large for Los Angeles magazine, wrote recently at Wired about the controversy over the safety of vaccines. She frames it as more akin to hysteria on the... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted October 26, 2009 12:59 PM
Former CityBeat editor Rebecca Schoenkopf has a piece she wrote for the late weekly included in "Best Music Writing 2009," the annual edited by Greil Marcus. Schoenkopf also gets a... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted October 26, 2009 11:11 AM
Ann Powers is the pop music writer for the Los Angeles Times (currently living in Alabama, but that's another story.) She's been using that byline for many years since it... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted October 25, 2009 10:31 PM
Everybody works through getting fired in their own way. Laid-off L.A. Times columnist Tina Daunt has been expressing her fashionista side at her blog The English Muse for the past... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted October 21, 2009 2:51 PM
The first is more of a website than a blog, by ex-Los Angeles Daily Journal editor Martin Berg. He's editing Where's Our Money? for Harvey Rosenfield's Consumer Education Foundation, billed... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted October 21, 2009 12:58 PM
About a week after leaving the LA Weekly, Steven Mikulan has been inked to write a new blog for The Wrap to be called L.A. Noir. The site also announced... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted October 19, 2009 2:46 PM
L.A. media types who also skate — Alex Cohen of KPCC and Jennifer Barbee of Blood & Thunder magazine — have written "Down and Derby: the Insiders Guide to Roller... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted October 19, 2009 12:54 PM
Former Inland Empire sports columnist Paul Oberjuerge, who blogged his own firing in 2008, finally got a job back in daily journalism — in Abu Dhabi. It grew out of... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted October 16, 2009 9:24 AM
Daniel Weintraub, the columnist for the Sacramento Bee opinion pages since 2000 and before that a reporter in the capital, is leaving the paper on Friday. He will be starting... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted October 15, 2009 3:31 PM
"My strengths lay in writing longer pieces," Steven Mikulan says in a Neon Tommy story about his departure from the LA Weekly, where he was the main writer on the... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted October 15, 2009 1:19 PM
Terry McDermott, a former national reporter at the Los Angeles Times, is one of four new CJR Encore Fellows named by the Columbia Journalism Review. [It's] a new initiative—the first... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted October 15, 2009 11:05 AM
Downtown News staff writer Ryan Vaillancourt spent a year reporting on the inner workings of the Skid Row basketball league, starting by getting himself into pickup games at Gladys Park.... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted October 12, 2009 12:13 PM
Zócalo Public Square took over the grand ticket hall at Union Station Saturday night for its first fundraiser, featuring the LA Weekly's Jonathan Gold, who praised Zócalo as an essential... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted October 11, 2009 1:04 AM
I joined some media and blog folks at the KCET studios the other morning for a preview of the second season of "SoCal Connected," the PBS station's weekly news program.... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted October 8, 2009 11:20 AM
With the chatter about Nikki Finke on high due to this week's profile in The New Yorker, Gawker's Richard Rushfield is offering $1,000 for "a recent photograph of the scourge... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted October 6, 2009 10:24 PM
Gourmet editor Ruth Reichl tweets, sounds like she was surprised at magazine's demise: Thank you all SO much for this outpouring of support. It means a lot. Sorry not to... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted October 5, 2009 11:56 AM
You know something's up when you wake up to Sunday morning email from Nikki Finke and the flack for The New Yorker, both flagging a story in the magazine that... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted October 4, 2009 1:01 PM
There are two new blogs by L.A. journalists that I've started following. L.A. Explored is by journalist and fellow Angel City Press author Amy Dawes, who posts, "I live in... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted September 30, 2009 1:33 PM
Long checked out Friday as news director and VP at KNBC Channel 4. He's headed to Istanbul to teach a class in journalism ethics at Bahcesehir University. Long had previously... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted September 26, 2009 2:58 AM
The managing editor moves up to the top job. From the story in the Daily Breeze: Sciacqua, 37, fills a position left vacant after former editor and interim publisher Phillip... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted September 24, 2009 8:10 PM
Some Dodgers visited Walter Reed Medical Center in Washington today. They met CBS Radio reporter Cami McCormick, who said she was going to have a foot amputated tomorrow. She was... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted September 23, 2009 2:15 PM
That testimony about Cardinal Mahony, more statewide candidates, Chief Bratton's house and more after the jump. Also see today's Mark Lacter morning headlines at LA Biz Observed, and follow Mark... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted September 23, 2009 8:53 AM
The City Council voted unanimously to offer early retirement to 2,400 employees in lieu of layoffs and furloughs. LAT, Ron Kaye Producer John Wells was elected president of the... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted September 18, 2009 7:15 PM
Steve Hymon, the former transportation and City Hall reporter for the Los Angeles Times, has a blog devoted to his crusade — as a 43-year-old novice — to learn to... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted September 18, 2009 6:16 PM
Murray Fromson, the longtime CBS News correspondent who holds emeritus professor status at USC Annenberg, has good things to say about the Los Angeles Times these days. He just doesn't... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted September 17, 2009 4:25 PM
Moving on up: Villaraigosa press secretary Matt Szabo becomes deputy chief of staff. One of his first priorities will be to tackle the city's worsening financial situation. (LAT) Warhol art... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted September 12, 2009 9:10 AM
The long-time education writer at the LAT was 80. From the Times obit: At The Times, where he was a reporter for nearly 30 years starting in 1964, Trombley was... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted September 10, 2009 2:06 PM
Response to Mark Whicker's tasteless sports column in the OC Register has been so brutal that he was forced to make a public apology on the newspaper's Web site The... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted September 10, 2009 6:03 AM
This week's New Yorker proclaims Kelly Wearstler the “presiding grande dame of West Coast interior design." In the Letter from Los Angeles, Dana Goodyear says that "Wearstler represents the uninhibited... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted September 8, 2009 8:33 AM
Los Angeles lawyer and journalist Ben Sheffner, who used to represent some Warner Music arms, pens a piece at Slate today that destroys an earlier New York Daily News story... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted September 2, 2009 6:11 PM
The newest iteration of "At The Movies" debuts this weekend with A.O. Scott and Michael Phillips installed as hosts — they both filled in a lot for Roger Ebert when... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted September 2, 2009 5:54 PM
Los Angeles photographer Phil Stern turns 90 tomorrow. That's his photo of Frank Sinatra lighting JFK's smoke. Vanity Fair celebrates the big day with an online piece by David Friend:... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted September 2, 2009 3:42 PM
"We tried with all our might to cling to bushes, ground, anything that would keep us on Chinese soil, but we were no match for the determined soldiers," Laura Ling... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted September 1, 2009 6:29 PM
Kim Masters, host of The Business on KCRW, talks about her father's part in a secret unit that killed Nazis on today's Talk of the Nation on National Public Radio.... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted September 1, 2009 2:50 PM
Fishbowl LA's Tina Dupuy takes to YouTube to demand $75 she feels owed by the Tampa Tribune, which ran a funny piece she sent in.... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted September 1, 2009 9:46 AM
Dunne is the father of actor Griffin Dunne and wrote extensively about the Los Angeles murder of his daughter, the actress Dominique Dunne. He also wrote best-selling books and produced... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted August 26, 2009 2:09 PM
The investigative reporting operation launched to fill in where newspapers such as the L.A. Times don't go so much any more will announce on Monday its staff of 11 reporters,... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted August 23, 2009 10:06 PM
Los Angeles magazine's website has posted a short slide show from behind the scenes of a recent fashion shoot in West Hollywood with photographer Hugh Kretschmer. Also in Los Angeles:... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted August 22, 2009 9:21 AM
Hugh Garvey, features editor at Bon Appetit magazine here and a food blogger, has a new cookbook out called "Gastrokid Cookbook: Feeding a Foodie Family in a Fast-Food World." Self-explanatory... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted August 22, 2009 9:02 AM
The fallout continues from the station's decision to emphasize conservative talk radio over news at 980 AM. AFTRA was notified of the KFWB pink slips this morning. Former Fox 11... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted August 21, 2009 4:06 PM
Scott Martelle and Brett Levy are the former Los Angeles Times journalists running The Journalism Shop, the new co-op in which they and a selected group of other ex-LAT staffers... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted August 20, 2009 10:11 PM
Journalist Donnell Alexander has been talking recently about he and his fiance being the "founding curators" of an upcoming Los Angeles culture website called Crux L.A. Well, that honeymoon is... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted August 20, 2009 9:49 PM
This morning we noted a new reporter-turned-law student at UCLA. Now it's been pointed out that Frank Mickadeit, a columnist for the Register in Orange County, is also starting law... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted August 19, 2009 6:47 PM
Los Angeles journalist Daniel Hernandez, living temporarily in Mexico City, explains why he cheered for Mexico to beat the U.S. in soccer last week. Excerpt of a piece he posted... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted August 17, 2009 4:58 PM
The Cal State Northridge grad student who had been imprisoned in Iran was interviewed last week on video by the school's Daily Sundial newspaper. Also in Daily News... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted August 16, 2009 10:25 PM
The New York Times public editor opined today on the paper's troubled story involving Katherine Jackson and John Branca, the attorney for Michael Jackson's estate. In addition to needing two... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted August 16, 2009 9:48 PM
Donna Myrow, the founder and publisher of LA Youth, met the novelist and screenwriter Budd Schulberg soon after he launched the Watts Writers Workshop following the 1965 riots. He became... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted August 13, 2009 4:59 PM
USC Annenberg plans to announce tomorrow that Kit Rachlis, the former editor of Los Angeles magazine, will be a Senior Fellow at the Center on Communication Leadership and Policy. As... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted August 13, 2009 4:32 PM
Michael Jackson surrounded himself with unusual characters, from Marlon Brando to Bubbles the chimp, but in billionaire Phil Anschutz "Jackson may have found his most mysterious—and lucrative—partner" yet, writes Matt... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted August 13, 2009 10:12 AM
Richard Serrano, a former reporter at the Los Angeles Times Washington bureau, and before that on the LAPD beat here in L.A., is joining the Las Vegas Sun as a... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted August 13, 2009 9:55 AM
Roger Wetherington, who died July 26, had been the adviser to the student newspapers at Cal States Northridge and Long Beach. As such, he worked closely with a number of... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted August 12, 2009 1:25 PM
She's still getting re-adjusted to life at home, but Euna Lee sent her thanks to supporters in a post on LauraandEuna.com: Knowing that you would not stop until we came... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted August 12, 2009 11:06 AM
Video of the newsroom celebration from reporter Eric Spillman's blog at the KTLA website.... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted August 11, 2009 6:13 PM
LA Observed contributor Nancy Rommelmann, at her blog up in Portland, steps back and considers the murder of 17-year-old Lily Burk, the way she and others have written about it,... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted August 10, 2009 8:57 PM
Jennifer McLain has left the San Gabriel Valley Tribune to pursue a master's degree in public administration at USC. She posts at Leftovers from City Hall, the paper's politics blog:... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted August 9, 2009 10:49 PM
In the latest first-person Column One story by a Times reporter, Molly Hennessy-Fiske writes about bonding with a South Los Angeles gang shooting victim. LAT Oscar Winner Budd Schulberg... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted August 9, 2009 10:40 PM
The Asian American blog Epicanthus posts three videos of the Burbank arrival of Laura Ling and Euna Lee that has footage beyond what most of the media showed. Noted: Producer... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted August 7, 2009 11:12 PM
Here is a reunion photo from inside the hangar at Bob Hope Airport in Burbank this morning, before Laura Ling and Euna Lee met the media. Above, Lee and her... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted August 5, 2009 10:36 AM
Laura Ling and Euna Lee at Bob Hope Airport in Burbank this morning.... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted August 5, 2009 8:12 AM
GiGi Graciette was just on Fox 11 live from Burbank's Bob Hope Airport, talking to Laura Ling's husband and setting up the arrival of Ling, Euna Lee and former President... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted August 4, 2009 10:06 PM
"The families of Laura Ling and Euna Lee are overjoyed by the news of their pardon. We are so grateful to our government: President Obama, Secretary Clinton and the... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted August 4, 2009 3:29 PM
Selected previous items on Laura Ling and Euna Lee, the Los Angeles journalists for Current TV who have been held in North Korea since March 17. Pyongyang announced their special... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted August 4, 2009 12:37 PM
Former president Bill Clinton met with Laura Ling and Euna Lee today in North Korea, according to ABC News quoting a government source. The meeting was described as "emotional." More... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted August 4, 2009 12:05 PM
Former President Clinton is engaged in talks aimed at bringing home Laura Ling and Euna Lee, the Los Angeles journalists for Current TV held in North Korea since March 17,... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted August 3, 2009 8:58 PM
The L.A. Times' emeritus pop music editor has a memoir of his decades covering the business — "Corn Flakes with John Lennon And Other Tales from a Rock 'n' Roll... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted August 3, 2009 5:25 PM
My commentary today talks about the murder of 17-year-old Lily Burk and the strong reaction it has evoked in the city. The piece airs at 4:44 p.m., can be heard... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted July 31, 2009 4:38 PM
Yesterday on Twitter I re-tweeted this affectionate parody of Huell Howser on a road trip of another sort, but forgot to post it here. The creator calls it California's gold... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted July 28, 2009 2:10 PM
Police said today that they took transient Charlie Samuel into custody by 5:30 p.m. Friday on drug charges in Downtown. They now have a pretty horrific chronology of the events... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted July 27, 2009 1:20 PM
Isabel Kaplan is 19, got her book deal when she was a high school junior, and now is enjoying "Hancock Park" hold a spot on the L.A. Times bestseller list... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted July 27, 2009 12:05 PM
The daughter of Los Angeles journalist Greg Burk and Southwestern Law adjunct professor Deborah Drooz was found slain this morning in her car near Alameda and Fourth Street downtown. A... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted July 25, 2009 11:50 PM
The South Korean newspaper Chosun Ilbo says that the U.S. and North Korea have "started delicate negotiations" over the future of Los Angeles journalists Laura Ling and Euna Lee, citing... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted July 20, 2009 11:33 PM
Alexandra Berzon's addition isn't the only move this summer in the Wall Street Journal bureau here. I'm told that when Berzon arrives, Tamara Audi is expected to slide from casino... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted July 20, 2009 12:16 PM
Alexandra Berzon, the Las Vegas Sun reporter whose four-part series on the high death rate among construction workers on the Las Vegas Strip won the Public Service medal in this... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted July 17, 2009 3:41 PM
Doug Jehl is a former Los Angeles Times White House reporter who jumped years ago to the New York Times, where he is deputy editor in the Washington bureau. He... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted July 14, 2009 12:25 PM
Tina Daunt, who writes the Cause Celebre political column for the L.A. Times' Calendar section, posted on her blog that she's taking time off to care for her ailing father.... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted July 14, 2009 12:21 PM
The Los Angeles staffers for Current TV have now been held in North Korea for 113 days. Lisa Ling sends word of a new website — lauraandeuna.com — to galvanize... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted July 8, 2009 5:05 PM
Steve Hymon, who covered the City Hall beat (and later transportation as the Bottleneck blogger) for the Los Angeles Times, is back again, at least virtually. This time, he's doing... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted July 1, 2009 4:22 PM
Westside Internet impresario (impresaria?) Amanda Congdon was married over the weekend to Mario Librandi. She produces and hosts Sometimes Daily on the web. In this episode, she skateboards to the... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted June 30, 2009 9:44 AM
After the Las Vegas Sun won a Pulitzer prize in April, I kept getting messages tipping me that ex-Los Angeles Times Magazine editor Drex Heikes was making good things happen... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted June 29, 2009 2:48 PM
L.A.'s most important absentee billionaire, Phillip Anschutz, is "quietly building a small empire of social-networking sites, newspapers and now a leading conservative weekly," says a piece in Forbes. Jim Monaghan,... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted June 29, 2009 9:15 AM
Move your cursor around and create some art on the site of poet and Los Angeles-based New Yorker staff writer Dana Goodyear.... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted June 28, 2009 10:55 PM
Robert Hilburn, the former L.A. Times pop music critic, lives not far from the Jackson family compound in Encino and knew Michael — and wrote about his music — for... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted June 26, 2009 4:36 PM
Photographer Gary Leonard has what looks to be a very cool exhibit up in his Broadway gallery: prints made from Kodachrome slides he saved from the trash showing Pacific Outdoor... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted June 24, 2009 12:42 AM
The video is an interview from 2005 of Laura Ling, one of the Current TV journalists from Los Angeles being held in North Korea. The interviewer was Los Angeles... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted June 21, 2009 11:44 PM
The Apple chief executive received the new liver secretly in Tennessee about two months ago, the Wall Street Journal reports tonight. He has been on medical leave since January to... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted June 19, 2009 10:45 PM
Freeways are uncommonly bad out there today, especially the 405 north due to truck crash in Sepulveda Pass. Incoming councilman Paul Koretz signed his chief of staff: Rich Llewellyn,... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted June 19, 2009 4:31 PM
In a Huffington Post entry about firing and being fired, once-axed LA Weekly publisher Michael Sigman shares a couple of anecdotes about the perils of being the one doing the... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted June 18, 2009 9:40 AM
Staples Center owner Phil Anschutz's Clarity Media Group closed the deal to buy the conservative mag from Rupert Murdoch. Here's a report in Anschutz's Washington Examiner, via Romemesko.... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted June 17, 2009 2:45 PM
The current issue of Pomona College Magazine examines the future of news, drawing on journalist alums: Bill Keller, executive editor of the New York Times; Richard Pérez-Peña, who covers newspapers... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted June 16, 2009 8:56 PM
Bill Maher's talk at Sunday night's L.A. Press Club awards dinner. Here, by the way, is the list of winners, which included the Bloomberg News bureau's David Evans, who won... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted June 16, 2009 9:26 AM
Josef Adalian, the television editor at Variety for nine years until jumping last year to TV Week as deputy editor, is moving again. This time he is going to The... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted June 14, 2009 11:32 PM
At tonight's Los Angeles Press Club awards dinner, the L.A. Times and KPCC came away with seven winners each and the LA Weekly had six — three of them named... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted June 14, 2009 10:03 PM
For reasons only he can adequately explain, OC Weekly writer, author and "Ask a Mexican" creator Gustavo Arellano was on the red carpet asking questions of stars at this week's... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted June 13, 2009 12:20 AM
Channel 5 had Stan Chambers throw the switch to change over to digital TV, making the point that he worked at the station for the entire analog era. Video... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted June 12, 2009 11:38 PM
Reporter Laura Ling is "unassuming, inquisitive and fearless...fearless, but not reckless," says a San Francisco Chronicle story about Ling and Euna Lee, the Los Angeles journalists held in North Korea.... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted June 12, 2009 9:07 AM
The L.A. Times was forced to run a correction because Michael Douglas forgot that he hosted a 1991 event honoring his father, Kirk Douglas. The anonymous blogger known as... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted June 11, 2009 5:26 PM
The Center for Investigative Reporting named the editorial director for its new reporting initiative focusing on California: Mark Katches, the former editor who oversaw prize-winning investigations at the Register in... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted June 11, 2009 12:53 AM
Nice story for tomorrow's L.A. Times talking to co-workers and friends of Laura Ling and Euna Lee, and especially nice to see the Times finally acknowledge that it's a... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted June 10, 2009 4:35 PM
Michael Sigman, the LA Weekly's former publisher, blogs at the Huffington Post that the paper was wrong to "part ways" with editor Laurie Ochoa. Sigman had originally hired her. His... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted June 9, 2009 12:24 PM
With publisher Mark Ficarra headed to San Diego, Breeze editor Phillip Sanfield will fill in as interim publisher. Newsroom note from the new president of the Los Angeles Newspaper Group... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted June 9, 2009 11:44 AM
The longtime columnist who was squeezed out of the Los Angeles Times (again) this year now runs in the Daily News. Martinez's debut DN column is about his daughters, one... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted June 8, 2009 11:26 PM
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, taking questions at a photo op with the foreign minister of Indonesia, just said the United States is committed to winning the release of Euna... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted June 8, 2009 1:02 PM
The White House reacted Monday to the sentencing of Laura Ling and Euna Lee, with spokesman Bill Burton telling reporters "the president is deeply concerned by the reported sentencing of... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted June 8, 2009 8:21 AM
Mark Ficarra is stepping down as publisher of the Daily Breeze to become a VP at the San Diego Union-Tribune, the Register has lost investigative reporter Norberto Santana Jr. and... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted June 8, 2009 12:41 AM
News out of North Korea tonight: Los Angeles journalists Laura Ling and Euna Lee were convicted in last week's trial and sentenced to 12 years "reform through labor" each... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted June 7, 2009 9:53 PM
Mike Carroll has ben the editorial page editor at the South Bay Daily Breeze for 17 years. He's relocating to Canada. Newsroom note from editor Phillip Sanfield is after the... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted June 4, 2009 4:58 PM
Found some nice photos from last night's Santa Monica vigil in support of the Los Angeles reporters for Current TV who went on trial today in North Korea. They... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted June 4, 2009 3:30 PM
North Korea's official Korean Central News Agency said in a brief dispatch today that the trial of Los Angeles journalists Laura Ling and Euna Lee would begin at 3 p.m.... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted June 4, 2009 9:58 AM
It's not entirely clear to me who's leaving who here, but this much I know. Martin Berg, who was replaced abruptly last December as editor of the Los Angeles Daily... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted June 3, 2009 11:42 AM
Television journalist Lisa Ling just Twittered a request for support of an online petition calling on North Korea to release Los Angeles journalists Laura Ling and Euna Lee. They have... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted June 3, 2009 9:34 AM
From here on, I'll probably post tweets o' the day only occasionally. They seem better suited to Twitter itself, where I'll keep retweeting media postings on the LA Observed feed.... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted June 2, 2009 5:01 PM
I've been awfully remiss in not jumping on the bad situation facing Los Angeles journalists Laura Ling and Euna Lee, the Current TV reporters who have been held in North... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted June 2, 2009 4:25 PM
Nick Madigan was axed as a reporter for Sam Zell's shrinking Baltimore Sun. Then several co-workers with safer safety nets volunteered to leave instead. Madigan stays. He used to do... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted June 2, 2009 2:52 PM
It's not too often you see an ad for a live-in editorial assistant, especially with the chance to "earn lucrative commissions doing telephone sex therapy." But then Susan Block is... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted May 31, 2009 11:56 PM
Natasha Vargas-Cooper, who is watching the murder trial of Jesse James Hollywood up in Santa Barbara for The Awl, grew up with killing victim Nick Markowitz in West Hills. The... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted May 27, 2009 3:55 PM
Today's media tweet catches two of the top British journalists posted to Los Angeles taking some down time to follow the day's biggest story in Europe. mattgarrahan Watching Man Utd... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted May 27, 2009 2:10 PM
Sounds like Los Angeles communications consultant Edward Headington has had a bad day, in a different way than you or I might have had a bad day: HeadingtonMedia word to... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted May 26, 2009 4:07 PM
The day after she was featured on "60 Minutes," the editor of Vogue was spotted at Tavern in Brentwood eating dinner at a table of four without any paparazzi in... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted May 20, 2009 12:21 PM
Washington Post media reporter Howard Kurtz is in Los Angeles this week to do Bill Maher etc. If you see a drowsy guy on the corner outside Television City, might... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted May 19, 2009 3:27 PM
No, it's not a law firm. It's Huell Howser and Jacob Soboroff meeting for coffee at Intelligenstia 2½ years after they first circled each other on video at the Cornfield... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted May 19, 2009 3:12 PM
The former CNN correspondent who reinvented himself as a Los Angeles-based multimedia journalist for Yahoo was named one of 24 new Nieman Fellows at Harvard. He's the only one from... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted May 19, 2009 1:32 PM
The Hollywood Reporter announced that former Fox entertainment reporter Roger Friedman will join the trade as a senior correspondent based in New York.... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted May 18, 2009 8:47 AM
When Elmore Leonard was researching his new novel "Road Dogs," Venice Paper publisher Tibby Rothman showed him around Venice for a few hours. Now she's in some of the book's... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted May 17, 2009 10:33 PM
Haven't seen the book yet, but I like the title. "Beverly Hills Adjacent" is a debut novel with strong local flavor and media bloodlines: it's by Jennifer Steinhauer, the New... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted May 14, 2009 11:50 PM
Vu Nguyen, who is 34, suffered cardiac arrest while playing in a weekend soccer game in Santa Monica. The Daily Breeze staff story says that Nguyen is hospitalized in a... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted May 14, 2009 10:32 PM
With the Anaheim Ducks getting set to play a deciding game 7 tonight in Detroit, I have to say that — for me — there aren't too many sports scenarios... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted May 14, 2009 4:44 PM
Former Daily News editor Ron Kaye has been building up to this post ever since he got fired last year, I suspect. With Ed Moss departing yesterday as publisher and... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted May 13, 2009 9:25 AM
In which we observe the media- and politisphere's embrace of micro-blogging, one tweet at a time. Today, The Wrap's Sharon Waxman gets out of town: sharonwaxman Headed to cannes, god... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted May 12, 2009 3:48 PM
Daniel S. Baum continues to Twitter his downfall as a contract writer at the New Yorker — he's getting into promises that either were or were not made by editor... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted May 11, 2009 7:52 PM
Mark Lisanti manages to tie a personal grooming note into Hollywood. Proving he hasn't lost the Defamer touch. @marklisanti Just got the Dark Knight of haircuts: 30 minutes too long,... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted May 11, 2009 5:14 PM
Yahoo has promoted Jimmy Pitaro to oversee what they call "North America Vertical Audience Experience," meaning he's in charge of News, Finance, Sports and a whole bunch more. That means... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted May 11, 2009 2:07 PM
Dan Baum, a journalist who I believe lived and worked in California before moving to Colorado, is Twittering in 140-character dispatches about his departure from the New Yorker staff. At... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted May 8, 2009 11:52 AM
Associated Press photographer Nick Ut receives the Lifetime Achievement Award from the L.A. chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists tonight at the Omni Hotel downtown. On June 8, 1972,... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted May 6, 2009 5:11 PM
Toni Sciacqua, managing editor of the Daily Breeze newspaper in Torrance: dailybreezeME was just looking at a front page of the Daily Breeze from 1950. There were about 30 stories,... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted May 5, 2009 4:30 PM
Metrolink has agreed to pay the agency's former spokeswoman $135,500 to settle potential claims arising from her departure. Denise Tyrrell resigned last September after being criticized by some Metrolink officials... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted May 5, 2009 1:07 PM
From Howard Kurtz, media writer at the Washington Post and CNN host: HowardKurtz Work has interfered with tweeting all day. Thing about reporting is it takes time--phone calls, etc. Very... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted May 4, 2009 4:38 PM
Cortney Fielding, the Superior Court reporter for the Los Angeles Daily Journal, is leaving the legal paper to freelance and work on a documentary project. * Update: Catherine Ho, a... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted May 1, 2009 4:31 PM
From our own TJ Sullivan: TJSullivanLA "Swine Flu" is supposed to be called "A(H1N1)" ... They thought about calling it "O(+>," but Prince tried that already. Follow LA Observed on... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted May 1, 2009 4:08 PM
After OC money manager Danny Pang was released from federal custody in Santa Ana Wednesday and sent to home confinement on $1 million bail, he took exception to photographer Jonathan... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted April 30, 2009 10:26 PM
KPCC's John Rabe didn't just get to the public observation level high up on Los Angeles. He shot a video from the TOP, where the beacon shines over Los Angeles.... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted April 29, 2009 2:27 PM
Associate editor Daniel Yi has quit the L.A. Daily Journal to flack for the Port of Long Beach, and he left with an appreciative note to his colleagues about the... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted April 29, 2009 7:35 AM
Los Angeles journalist Daniel Hernandez, in Mexico the past year or so writing a book, has left the federal district for Puebla to get a break from the "toxic urbanism... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted April 28, 2009 4:10 PM
The Lakers were the #1 seed eliminating the #8 Jazz, while the Ducks achieved the reverse: the lowest-ranked playoff team in the NHL's west knocking off the top-seeded San Jose... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted April 27, 2009 10:45 PM
Fifteen digital journalists from 10 states have been selected for the inaugural class of the Knight Digital Media Center’s News Entrepreneur Boot Camp. Local fellows are Julia Scott, who blogs... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted April 27, 2009 3:35 PM
The current LA Weekly is the annual L.A. People issue. "Portraits of the waitresses and starlets ... the tech wizards and rock stars ... the activists, gang survivors, political warriors... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted April 24, 2009 8:53 PM
Vanity Fair writer Dominick Dunne, responding to readers interested in his future with the magazine, posts at DominicksDiary that he expects to be back in the pages of VF shortly... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted April 20, 2009 12:08 PM
KTLA reporter Eric Spillman thought he had a good case so he fought the ticket he received via red-light camera while exiting the 2 freeway in Glendale. He won and... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted April 20, 2009 12:26 AM
The Los Angeles pop culture photographer died last night, according to several websites. SuperTouch, Daily Swarm, ThaIndian News... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted April 17, 2009 11:18 AM
Massie Ritsch, the former L.A. Times politics desk writer and editor who has been Communications Director at the Center for Responsive Politics in Washington, is heading for the Department of... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted April 16, 2009 4:47 PM
Rachel Uranga left the Daily News last year and now, in her 30s, has left Echo Park to move back in with her father. She writes about it in a... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted April 15, 2009 4:10 PM
"The sudden appearance of these designs, even in provisional form, in the middle of a deep recession prompts a couple of questions. Why now? And why -- when the last... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted April 12, 2009 10:40 PM
In this case, Mary Anne Ostrom of the San Jose Mercury News is "Silicon Valley's top political writer," says Capitol Alert's Peter Hecht. Ostrom is joining the gubernatorial campaign of... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted April 9, 2009 12:59 PM
That was L.A. writer Rip Rense who booed during the cheers for Achim Freyer at Saturday's opening night performance of "Die Walküre" at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion. The Times' Mark... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted April 8, 2009 9:43 PM
Sommer died in a trauma helicopter en route to UCLA after being hit by a car in an Agoura Hills parking lot last week. His mother Ann, 98, also suffered... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted March 31, 2009 9:08 AM
County Supervisors pay a student worker to peel the labels off bottles of water and replace them with a customized county label so that Arrowhead won't get free publicity... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted March 31, 2009 8:58 AM
A. Jerrold "Jerry" Perenchio, the former chair of Univision, has donated $1.5 million to back two of the May special election measures being pushed by the governor. It's the... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted March 30, 2009 10:23 PM
Rick Orlov offers the L.A. politics obituary for City Attorney Rocky Delgadillo: "Could be remembered as the loneliest guy in City Hall." DN The 151 pages of sign regulations... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted March 22, 2009 10:46 PM
Journalist Chris Willman attended an American Cinematheque screening of the 1976 Woody Guthrie biopic "Bound for Glory" at the Aero Theatre that became, he writes on Facebook, "a nerve-wracking, weird... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted March 21, 2009 10:27 AM
Talk here of the old Radio Shack TRS-80 computers that reporters lugged around in the 1980s elicited some memories from LAO readers. "Loved that Cranston campaign piece, but I must... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted March 19, 2009 9:43 AM
Mary Anne Dolan was hired at the Los Angeles Herald Examiner by Jim Bellows and followed him as editor. Below are her remarks at last Friday's memorial service for Bellows,... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted March 19, 2009 9:20 AM
Sen. Alan Cranston's 1986 reelection campaign was the first one I covered where Hollywood celebrities rode along on just about every bus trip across California. They would be introduced at... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted March 18, 2009 9:35 AM
In a "Blowback" piece on the Times' opinion web page, former LAT staffer Allan Jalon goes into the controversy that ensued after Jim Bellows let Times gossip columnist Joyce Haber... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted March 13, 2009 12:54 PM
I haven't gotten to all the Jim Bellows appreciatons that have been posted or published, but today's by columnist Jon Carroll in the San Francisco Chronicle is a bit different... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted March 11, 2009 5:58 PM
Mark Arax, the former Los Angeles Times reporter based in Fresno, is joining the staff of the state's Senate Select Committee on Air Quality, a new committee headed by Sen.... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted March 9, 2009 9:58 PM
Bellows died Friday at a nursing home in Santa Monica after suffering from Alzheimer's. He had been an editor in New York, then the overseer of the features sections at... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted March 7, 2009 7:37 AM
Aurelio Rojas, a reporter for the Sacramento Bee, is the new communications director for L.A. County Supervisor Mark Ridley-Thomas. An item at Capitol Morning Report says that Rojas used to... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted March 3, 2009 12:49 PM
Because it's been that kind of day: The consulting company belonging to the Screen Actors Guild’s new national executive director, David White, shut down shortly before he was hired because... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted February 25, 2009 4:40 PM
While Joel Kotkin sees Los Angeles "fading rapidly toward irrelevancy," this month's Atlantic cover story posits that L.A. is one of the relatively few American places ideally situated to rise... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted February 25, 2009 9:55 AM
Fox News shouter John Gibson did not compare Attorney General Eric Holder to a monkey with a bright blue scrotum, and thus the Huffington Post regrets the error. Live by... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted February 23, 2009 5:25 PM
David Kronke, who covered television for the Daily News and wrote the paper's Mayor of Television blog, posted his final item today and said to watch for the launch of... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted February 20, 2009 4:13 PM
The two all-news AM stations (KNX 1070 and KFWB 980) share the same floor on Wilshire Boulevard but a wall, physical and virtual, has separated the newsrooms. The staffs were... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted February 20, 2009 3:16 PM
This was the day that Daily News desk editors who didn't want to make the move to West Covina had their buyout applications accepted — a "tense and tearful day,"... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted February 19, 2009 5:06 PM
After 26 years, Martha McCully "pulled loose from the glue trap of New York City to start fresh in Venice, California." The former executive editor of In Style and executive... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted February 18, 2009 9:10 AM
Journalist Marc Haefele found this week's media event at the demolition of the former Avenues gang home in Northeast Los Angeles more than a little unsettling. A bunch of pols... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted February 6, 2009 11:19 AM
Photographer Gary Leonard is no longer taking pictures for CityBeat — they cut him in November — but he has moved his collection of Los Angeles photos to a new... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted February 6, 2009 9:35 AM
Brady did the celebrity profiles for Parade magazine for nearly 25 years — his last, of actor Kevin Bacon, runs February 15. Before that he was a Washington reporter for... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted January 27, 2009 5:44 PM
Former Los Angeles Times editor Jim O'Shea, who lost the top job after clashing with then-publisher David Hiller, will study conflicts between newspaper editors and owners as a spring fellow... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted January 26, 2009 12:32 PM
Ayres, the Los Angeles correspondent for The Times of London, previously wrote "War Reporting for Cowards." From the flap for "Death by Leisure: A Cautionary Tale," his newest: All Chris... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted January 23, 2009 12:54 AM
Newly powerful Reps. Henry Waxman and Howard Berman are the key draws at a Sunday gathering at USC of the Jewish Federation's New Leaders Project. They will be honored along... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted January 23, 2009 12:07 AM
Syndicated columnist Robert Scheer has been dropped from the San Francisco Chronicle Op-Ed page. The editor told him his take on world affairs and politics had become "predictable," to which... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted January 21, 2009 5:33 PM
Scott Timberg, who has started freelancing for the New York Times and others since being laid off last year by the L.A. Times Calendar section, has fired up a blog.... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted January 15, 2009 9:21 AM
CityBeat and film critic Andy Klein parted ways yesterday, say sources close to the weekly and to Klein. He continues apparently with KPCC's FilmWeek segment and "Off-Ramp." This follows last... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted January 14, 2009 12:21 PM
Author, reporter, columnist and blogger Gustavo Arellano is now the host of Four O'Clock Tuesdays with Gustavo Arellano every, yes, Tuesday at 4 p.m., on KPFK. The show's focus is... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted January 12, 2009 11:13 PM
Last year at this time, Brent Hopkins was a reporter for the Los Angeles Daily News and the guild shop steward/blogger called upon to keep the staff informed through waves... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted January 8, 2009 3:29 PM
The son of former LAPD spokesman and Fox 11 reporter Rod Bernsen died of cancer. The family suggests donations be made to the Memorial Hospital Cancer Center's Circle of Hope,... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted January 8, 2009 12:14 PM
Doug Frantz, one of the many senior Los Angeles Times editors to depart in recent years, has been named chief investigator for the Senate Foreign Relations Committee under new chairman... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted January 7, 2009 11:05 AM
Aron Miller, who recently served a stint as interim city editor at the Daily News, has given notice that he's leaving the paper and journalism. He's been on the Woodland... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted January 6, 2009 3:21 PM
Voting by members of the Los Angeles Press Club has returned Ezra Palmer, Anthea Raymond, Jon Regardie, George White and Adam Wilkenfeld to the board for new two-year terms and... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted January 5, 2009 2:27 PM
Channel 2 (and 9) photographer Bryan Frank had Friday afternoon off and spent it taking pictures on foot in Hollywood and Downtown. Hot dogs at Skooby's and a beer at... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted January 3, 2009 11:49 AM
Some new, some holdovers from the end of the year. I'll be back to regular posting on Monday. Happy New Year everybody! Bell Gardens city counciman Mario Beltran took the... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted January 2, 2009 5:25 PM
Bob Benoit, photographer Mr. Blackwell, fashion figure Manuel Bogran, Breeze carrier Bernie Boston, photographer P.J. Corkery, editor Elmer Dills, TV restaurant critic Bill Drake, radio executive Clay Felker, editor... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted December 30, 2008 8:22 PM
Two weeks after David Houston took over abruptly as editor of the Los Angeles Daily Journal, I'm hearing a lot of unhappiness out of the newsroom. Houston has reportedly been... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted December 17, 2008 12:39 PM
Word out of KCBS/KCAL is that there have been layoffs today, including assistant news director Jim Hattendorf. Also, the copy desks of the San Gabriel Valley Tribune, San Bernardino... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted December 16, 2008 5:01 PM
I observed more WTF? head scratching over the L.A. Times' layoff of Calendar writer Scott Timberg this fall than over just about anybody. So no surprise he shows up today... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted December 14, 2008 2:13 PM
Gabriel Kahn, the deputy chief in the WSJ's Los Angeles bureau on Wilshire since the summer, gets the top job when Bruce Orwall heads for London next month. Kahn (they... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted December 10, 2008 8:54 PM
The director of "Nothing But the Truth" blogs some praise for newly laid-off Daily News critic Glenn Whipp and others who have lost their jobs, including Premiere's Glenn Kenney and... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted December 9, 2008 12:42 PM
The Los Angeles Film Critics Association will get together Tuesday and announce its winners of the year's movie awards. The org has a newly freshened website — the group photo... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted December 7, 2008 9:49 PM
The actress plays a newspaper reporter not — repeat not, director Rod Lurie winks — based on Judith Miller in next week's new thriller, "Nothing But the Truth." Beckinsale and... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted December 7, 2008 8:44 PM
Last night at the Beverly Hills Hotel, PEN Center USA gave a lifetime achievement award to multi-faceted writer Larry Gelbart and its First Amendment Award to the Writers Guild. Jesse... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted December 4, 2008 8:17 AM
Lynell George, one of this year's exiteers at the Los Angeles Times, shows up today on the LA Weekly website with a short essay about the 1992 Los Angeles riots... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted December 3, 2008 3:39 PM
Media and politics tidbits from around the greater Los Angeles universe. Controller Laura Chick is quoted on the CBS Evening News in a story about the impact of car dealers... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted December 2, 2008 4:52 PM
The Los Angeles Daily Journal newsroom was told this afternoon, in a very brief meeting, that editor Martin Berg is moving over to columnist and the new editor in chief... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted December 1, 2008 1:48 PM
Los Angeles journalist Daniel Hernandez, on extended book research in Mexico City, makes his video debut on Current TV with a story from the neighborhood of Tepito on the growing... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted November 26, 2008 1:50 PM
Magazine writer Claire Hoffman, who did the recent New Yorker interview with Prince talking about gay marriage, discusses that Joe Francis piece she did for the old L.A. Times magazine,... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted November 25, 2008 1:31 PM
The Los Angeles chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists will honor Paul Pringle of the Times, John Schwada of Fox 11, Frank Stoltze of KPCC and Terri Vermeulen Keith... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted November 24, 2008 11:50 PM
As Sara Catania points out at Native Intelligence, Erin Aubry Kaplan has posted a followup to her Salon piece on Michelle Obama's ass and the ensuing furor. When all is... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted November 24, 2008 9:49 AM
Mirthala Salinas tells La Opinión that she has adjusted to her new job as the morning host at Spanish-language AM 690, is past that whole episode with Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa,... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted November 22, 2008 6:04 PM
Mike Downey, the former Los Angeles Times sports columnist (and featured California columnist on page A3 for awhile in the 1990s, when state and local news still ranked ahead of... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted November 21, 2008 8:45 AM
Former L.A. Times columnist Erin Aubry Kaplan may or may not have been looking to scare up a little controversy with her piece in Salon celebrating the soon-to-be first lady's... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted November 20, 2008 9:11 AM
And now, some stuff I missed because I was actually working. Let's start here at LAO: Today's biz headlines (Japan is in recession) and an answer (hah) to the subprime... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted November 17, 2008 2:24 PM
We're not in the habit of running adoption notices here at LAO, but since I can't even begin to count the number of times Gustavo Arellano has made me... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted November 16, 2008 4:24 PM
First, some good news. Remember Lauren Beale, who edits the Times' real estate section? Though her name made the list of the 75 editorial employees cut from the newsroom last... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted November 16, 2008 1:00 PM
L.A. Times Editor Russ Stanton today named Alice Short, the former editor of the L.A. Times Magazine, as an assistant managing editor to oversee some of the feature sections that... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted October 13, 2008 11:19 PM
Gawker Media creator Nick Denton sent an email announcing the layoff of 19 editorial employees (out of 133) and eliminating the traffic bonuses that whipped so many of his bloggers... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted October 3, 2008 2:40 PM
Our columnist Bill Boyarsky has been on the national campaign trail this year for Truthdig, and as he used do to for the Times as a columnist and political reporter,... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted October 2, 2008 11:12 PM
More than 200 journalists, authors, bloggers, Los Angeles political types and other readers of this here blog filled the outdoor deck of the Formosa Cafe in West Hollywood Thursday night... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted September 27, 2008 12:55 AM
No felony charge for Kanye West in that scuffle with a photographer at LAX. Reuters New editor assignments on the L.A. Times city desk — involving Nita Lelyveld and... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted September 26, 2008 10:40 PM
LAT baseball writer Bill Shaikin asked television writer Scott Kaufer to analyze the Dodgers season as if it were a series being filmed on the Paramount lot. Matt Kemp is... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted September 22, 2008 12:35 AM
Remember last year when Los Angeles Times columnist Joel Stein was billed as a guest instructor on oral sex at Babeland, then dropped out after we and others wrote about... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted September 16, 2008 5:16 PM
Atlantic magazine and its writer Jeffrey Goldberg are unhappy that Los Angeles photographer Jill Greenberg turned in manipulated photos of John McCain for a story, then announced that she had... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted September 15, 2008 8:34 AM
Poor Linda Deutsch. AP's legendary Los Angeles-based trial reporter is back on the O.J. Simpson beat. She is in Las Vegas for the start of Simpson's latest criminal trial —... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted September 10, 2008 12:24 AM
Item 1: The Register may go tabloid (in size and shape, not necessarily in mentality), Publisher Terry Horne said today. He says it's 50-50 the change will happen. "“I think... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted September 9, 2008 11:58 PM
Beth Barrett was a mainstay of the Ron Kaye era at the Daily News — and before — digging into city and county spending and other investigative projects. Today's exit... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted August 27, 2008 4:53 PM
This time it is City Editor Judi Erickson who decided the grass is greener outside the Dean Singleton newspaper universe. Memo from Editor Carolina Garcia: All, I'm sad to report... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted August 26, 2008 5:20 PM
I knew that former Daily News reporter Lisa Mascaro had moved to Washington in 2006, then landed a job as the DC correspondent for the Las Vegas Sun. But I... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted August 22, 2008 9:57 PM
Gawker has posted a whole bunch of excerpts from the Washington, D.C. case that led to a restraining order against former L.A. Times rising star Andrés Martinez. OK, he's a... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted August 22, 2008 5:33 PM
Mariel Garza moves up to editor of the editorial pages at the Daily News in Woodland Hills. Oscar Garza (no relation), formerly the editor of Tu Ciudad magazine and before... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted August 22, 2008 3:23 PM
Film critic and KCRW host Elvis Mitchell was stopped recently at the U.S.-Canada border between Detroit and Windsor and a search of his luggage found a box of contraband cigars... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted August 14, 2008 4:05 PM
RealTalkLA lives on, in a way. (I can't get the website to work.) Craiglist has an ad for LA Reporting and Writing Interns Sought that reads: RealTALKLA.com, founded by Jay... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted August 7, 2008 12:20 AM
The Daily News took a double morale hit today. First, Publisher Doug Hanes decreed a new dress code that proves the secessionst's main point: the Valley (or at least Woodland... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted July 31, 2008 6:34 PM
Alan Mittelstaedt, formerly an editor and L.A. Sniper columnist at CityBeat and LA Weekly (and blogging at the Weekly and at Witness LA), is joining the editing staff at the... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted July 28, 2008 1:59 PM
In the last couple of years, I think I've heard more glowing praise for Anat Rubin than for any young local reporter whose beat is Los Angeles. She was named... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted July 22, 2008 2:49 PM
Reporter Robert Iafolla can put away his Pellicano case notes. He's been named the L.A. Daily Journal's federal government reporter based in Washington. Newsroom note from Editor Martin Berg: Please... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted July 21, 2008 1:15 PM
Reactions to yesterday's death of former Daily News (plus Register, Star-News and AP) sports writer and editor Matt McHale include an obituary by Los Angeles Newspaper Group Sports Editor Kevin... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted July 15, 2008 3:05 PM
The Washington Post announced in the newsroom that Los Angeles correspondent William Booth is going back on the foreign beat. His wife, ex-foreign correspondent Anne-Marie O'Connor, will be leaving the... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted July 15, 2008 12:57 PM
Sandy Banks writes in the Times that she took herself to UCLA Medical Center fearing she was in the middle of a heart attack, but found out after a couple... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted July 15, 2008 8:16 AM
Frank McCourt, the Dodgers owner of new, met Peter O'Malley at yesterday's Coliseum unveiling of a plaque honoring Walter O'Malley, the owner who brought the Dodgers west from Brooklyn. O'Malley... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted July 10, 2008 12:38 PM
I'm told that the Los Angeles Daily Journal's Supreme Court reporter in Washington, Brent Kendall, has left to join Dow Jones Newswire. He was at the DJ for five years.... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted July 8, 2008 9:23 AM
Shelly Leachman left the Daily Breeze last Thursday, and with it her career in newspapers (including a stint at the Santa Barbara News-Press in the Wendy McCaw meltdown years.) She's... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted July 7, 2008 2:45 PM
Melissa Grego, editor of HollywoodReporter.com, jumps to Broadcasting & Cable as executive editor. Grego joined THR last year after serving a stint as managing editor at TV Week. Memo follows... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted July 7, 2008 2:25 PM
The July issue is a relaunch under Emmis ownership by new editor Martin Smith. Editor's note here. The issue's best of OC media section proclaims the Register's Frank Mickadeit as... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted July 7, 2008 9:05 AM
Staffers at the San Gabriel Valley Tribune say that Metro Editor Edward Barrera resigned Thursday. He's reportedly moving back to New York after a stint in Guatemala. Barrera pioneered the... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted July 4, 2008 12:42 AM
San Francisco Chronicle columnist Jon Carroll was Clay Felker's West Coast editor of the Village Voice and an early hire at New West, Felker's attempt in the late 1970s to... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted July 3, 2008 11:58 AM
Melissa Lalum's departure from the Daily News make it a clean sweep of the top editors who were there at the beginning of April. Editor Ron Kaye was shown the... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted July 2, 2008 4:05 PM
The founder of New York as a Sunday supplement to the New York Herald-Tribune, and later as a standlone glossy weekly, changed the face of American magazines. He also edited... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted July 1, 2008 10:38 AM
That's what retired Los Angeles Times reporter Ken Reich calls his series of blog posts telling a little bit about 75 former Times staffers who left during the later part... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted June 29, 2008 11:53 PM
Steve Young's regular column in the DN's Sunday Viewpoint section is no longer needed, given that this week saw the last Sunday Viewpoint section to be published. Young takes it... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted June 25, 2008 5:35 PM
Frank Girardot, city editor at the San Gabriel Valley Tribune, also posted his paper's original 1958 coverage of the murder of writer James Ellroy's mother. In the post Girardot describes... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted June 24, 2008 11:12 PM
Alan Mittelsteadt blogs that the Daily News and reporter Beth Barrett — he calls her "the Queen of Spoon-Fed Journalism" — got snookered into running DWP chief David Nahai's planted... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted June 24, 2008 10:51 PM
At the Los Angeles Press Club awards on Saturday night, L.A. Times columnist Steve Lopez had some fun at Sam Zell's expense — alluding to Zell's lame ideas, four-letter... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted June 24, 2008 7:10 PM
Journalists of the year announced at last night's Los Angeles Press Club awards: Big print: Melissa Healy, L.A. Times Small print: Anat Rubin, Los Angeles Daily Journal TV: Antonio Valverde,... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted June 22, 2008 12:22 PM
Earlier this month, it was Truthdig's Robert Scheer reappearing on the L.A. Times Op-Ed page — notable because his firing as an Op-Ed columnist after thirteen years created quite a... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted June 21, 2008 11:22 AM
KCRW host Harry Shearer and KFI's Bill Handel are on the list to get their stars installed on the Hollywood walk of fame next year. Among the others are Cameron... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted June 19, 2008 8:59 AM
I've been kicking myself for a week for under-playing the selection of Russ Parsons, one of my favorite food writers, to the dining industry's hall of fame. He's the first... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted June 16, 2008 9:05 AM
John Rabe, host of "Off-Ramp" on KPCC, hopes to be pretty much first in line for a marriage license Tuesday morning at the Beverly Hills courthouse. Rabe, 42, and Julian... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted June 16, 2008 9:02 AM
Weather reader Jackie Johnson was out last night with Channel 9 colleagues Mary Beth McDade and Melissa McCarty, but it was Johnson who got all the personal attention from Girls... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted June 10, 2008 11:54 PM
Dave Zirin has been named the first-ever sports correspondent for The Nation. From the flackage: Starting this month, Zirin will report regularly for The Nation and TheNation.com on the intersection... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted June 10, 2008 3:44 PM
Brad A. Johnson, national food and travel editor for Angeleno, won the James Beard Foundation Award in restaurant reviews for his pieces on Hampton's, Sona and The Penthouse. Junot Diaz... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted June 10, 2008 12:05 PM
Joel Sappell, who vented recently in the American Journalism Review about Sam Zell and other changes that led him to flee the Los Angeles Times, started today as Deputy for... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted June 9, 2008 6:46 PM
I guess Josh Kleinbaum's last official title was director of audience development for the Los Angeles Newspaper Group websites, but he came out of the reporting ranks at the Daily... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted June 9, 2008 12:15 AM
The good news out of today's Association of Alternative Newsweeklies awards in Philadelphia is that Jeffrey Anderson won top honors for investigative pieces in the LA Weekly and Andrew Gumbel... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted June 7, 2008 6:23 PM
I'm told that opinion columnist and Friendly Fire blogger Bridget Johnson has accepted an offer to become an editorial writer, columnist and member of the editorial board at the Rocky... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted June 7, 2008 5:26 PM
The actress has demanded a retraction from Vanity Fair and says she has only been in the presence of former President Bill Clinton three times, always with lots of other... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted June 4, 2008 9:59 AM
Telemundo had another bad day on Friday, dropping the network's national morning show "Cada Dia" and making some executive changes. Host Maria Antonieta Collins, who joined Telemundo from Univisión, had... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted June 2, 2008 1:59 PM
After three somewhat stormy years living and blogging in Paris, four months in China and a stint in a rented apartment near Santa Monica beach, Los Angeles Times travel writer... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted June 2, 2008 12:49 AM
The former E! Channel host, Elite model and daughter-in-law to Ed Asner (she's now married to Steven Soderbergh) has a new novel landing tomorrow. "Whacked" is set in Hollywood, of... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted June 2, 2008 12:43 AM
Christopher Page killed himself three weeks after losing his job as a theater critic and editor at the at the East Valley Tribune in Phoenix. He was 29. Sasha Anawalt,... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted May 28, 2008 11:16 PM
A federal judge has denied the National Labor Relations Board's request for an injunction ordering Wendy McCaw to immediately reinstate eight staffers fired during the big purge at her News-Mess.... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted May 28, 2008 12:43 PM
Jon Thurber, the LAT's obits editor, gets some ink on Claire Hoffman's religion blog for Newsweek and the Washington Post. To me, one of the most desirable jobs in newspapers... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted May 28, 2008 12:25 PM
Nikki Finke points a chiding finger at Defamer, Variety columnist Anne Thompson, LAT columnist Patrick Goldstein and Slate's Kim Masters for posting an erroneous item that she says began... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted May 27, 2008 10:31 PM
Veronica Villafañe at Media Moves reports that Azteca América Channel 54 is dropping its Los Angeles production and will host the Spanish-language newscasts in Mexico. Layoffs of 29 staffers came... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted May 27, 2008 10:25 PM
Alan Mittelstaedt sent his freelancers the news LAO reported yesterday — that he was canned by CityBeat. Under the subject line "Fired--again!," it contains the details that he got the... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted May 26, 2008 12:15 AM
Lucia Navarro is out as anchor at Telemundo-52 after seven years, according to Media Moves, a blog that charts the movement of Latinos in the media business. Navarro was on... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted May 25, 2008 10:19 PM
Alan Mittelstaedt, CityBeat's news editor and number two, was let go on Friday by Acting Editor Rebecca Schoenkopf. Something about the money being used for columns and freelancers. That's one... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted May 25, 2008 5:34 PM
Daily News columnist Steve Dilbeck leads the paper today with a column about learning that his 14-year-old son had Type 1 diabetes. We took him out of school and when... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted May 23, 2008 12:32 PM
Linda Douglass, the former television reporter here who is now a contributor editor at National Journal, will join the Barack Obama presidential campaign as a senior strategist and "senior campaign... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted May 21, 2008 5:20 PM
California Supreme Court chief justice Ronald George gives a two-hour interview to the LAT's Maura Dolan and talks about the court's milestone same-sex marriage ruling: "I think there are... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted May 18, 2008 12:25 PM
Longtime Los Angeles reporter Mandalit Del Barco is getting a raise. The memo at National Public Radio: From South Central Los Angeles to Central America, she's been telling stories with... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted May 16, 2008 12:58 PM
Jay Fernandez will join THR as a senior film reporter to concentrate on breaking news, says Hollywood Wiretap. He has written the "Scriptland" column in the L.A. Times Calendar section... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted May 12, 2008 5:32 PM
An add to yesterday's item on the tale of two ex-editors: current Times editor Russ Stanton also gets out on the town Thursday night, appearing as the featured guest at... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted May 7, 2008 10:35 PM
Take your pick: on Thursday, USC Annenberg fetes Michael Parks, the outgoing director of the Annenberg School of Journalism. He is the former editor of the Los Angeles Times. Later... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted May 6, 2008 9:48 PM
Ryan Oliver is leaving the Los Angeles Daily Journal for public relations. He'll work on the Police Protective League and U.S. Army accounts for Weber Shandwick Worldwide's Los Angeles office.... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted May 5, 2008 2:02 PM
The May issue of W (with Cameron Diaz on the cover) proclaims Arianna Huffington more influential than ever, with her new book doing well and the Huffington Post "arguably the... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted May 5, 2008 12:55 AM
The Times is moving California political writer Phil Willon onto the Los Angeles City Hall beat. The memo from California Editor David Lauter waxes on a bit about the importance... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted May 4, 2008 11:54 PM
This week's issue of The New Yorker carries a "Letter from Los Angeles" by Dana Goodyear on the movie being made based on Steve Lopez's L.A. Times columns about street... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted April 28, 2008 9:23 AM
Former L.A. Times editor and staff writer (and occasional LA Observed contributor) Bob Baker makes his case at the Poynter Institute website — and puts up a podcast from the... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted April 23, 2008 11:54 PM
The journalist killed by a Los Angeles County sheriff's projectile during the National Chicano Moratorium March against the Vietnam War — held on August 29, 1970 in East Los Angeles... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted April 18, 2008 12:05 AM
The former editor of the Daily News has his first blog post up (at a different address than mentioned in the Morning Buzz, which came from the LA Weekly's blog.)... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted April 17, 2008 11:40 AM
I scanned past this in my initial quick read of the Mirthala Salinas interview by Shawn Hubler in the new issue of Los Angeles magazine. Salinas talks in some detail... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted April 16, 2008 8:59 AM
OK, I'm not suggesting Dean Singleton has a morale issue on his hands. But approximately 90% of the email that came my way today pointing out his Washington luncheon gaffe... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted April 14, 2008 9:20 PM
Bringing home a Pulitzer Prize to Los Angeles isn't the only praise Investor's Business Daily cartoonist Michael Ramirez gets to bask in this month. He also just picked up a... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted April 14, 2008 1:34 PM
As reported Saturday, Geneva Overholser was just announced as the new journalism director at USC Annenberg.... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted April 14, 2008 9:16 AM
Geneva Overholser, former editor of the Des Moines Register, will be introduced Monday as the new director of the journalism school at the USC Annenberg School of Communication, according to... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted April 12, 2008 6:16 PM
Jane Gross exits NYT Former L.A. Times reporter (and ex-New York Times L.A. bureau correspondent) Jane Gross takes the NYT buyout offer. Romenesko The Advocate sold cheap PlanetOut Inc. agreed... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted April 10, 2008 3:44 PM
CurbedLA scoured the web and found the wedding planning site for Mirthala Salinas and Yanni Raz, where one of them says "I'm marrying my best friend." Looks like a Cabo... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted April 10, 2008 9:44 AM
PolitickerCA has a blind item saying that Doug Dowie, the former president of Fleishman-Hillard in L.A. whose conviction on wire fraud is on appeal, is doing some work for political... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted April 9, 2008 11:25 PM
Matthew Kredell was a Daily News sports writer who lost his job in the Feb. 29 payroll purge. A kid from El Camino Real High in Woodland Hills and USC,... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted April 9, 2008 9:36 PM
Former New York Times Hollywood correspondent Bernard Weinraub, who had teamed with Anita Busch at one point, also took the stand today in the Anthony Pellicano trial. Allison Hope Weiner's... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted April 9, 2008 6:19 PM
The reporter who started it all — by being threatend via Pellicano and associates to lay off a story about Steven Seagal — took the stand this afternoon. She recounted... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted April 9, 2008 2:50 PM
Los Angeles magazine scored the first big interview with Mirthala Salinas, ex-squeeze of Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa. Former L.A. Times writer Shawn Hubler did the story, which reportedly goes up on... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted April 9, 2008 12:39 PM
Another local music critic down, not many left to go. Alan Rich, who is at least 83, was let go as classical music critic over lunch with LA Weekly editor... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted April 9, 2008 12:37 AM
The official explanation for Steve Lowery bailing as editor of CityBeat after a few days is that his heart wasn't in reinventing the weekly as a broader, more appealing magazine-like... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted April 8, 2008 12:15 AM
This was new Pulitzer Prize winner Michael Ramirez's editorial cartoon today in today's Investor's Business Daily. He is based there and syndicated in 450 newspapers. After the jump: the scene... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted April 7, 2008 11:19 PM
On the day that Michael Ramirez won a Pulitzer Prize, it's somewhat fitting to run a Robert Scheer item too. He and Ramirez were both dropped from the L.A. Times... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted April 7, 2008 11:13 PM
My prediction of this morning was correct, if general. The Washington Post cleaned up with six Pulitzer prizes, for coverage of Walter Reed, Virginia Tech, Dick Cheney and Blackwater among... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted April 7, 2008 12:25 PM
Garcia is the new executive editor of the Los Angeles Daily News. She was introduced in the newsroom this morning. Garcia, 53, comes to the Daily News after five years... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted April 7, 2008 11:34 AM
Steve Lowery's resignation as editor of CityBeat was accepted today and — one week after the she joined the paper — Rebecca Schoenkopf was named acting editor. (I reported the... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted April 7, 2008 10:52 AM
New York Times (and former LAT) reporter Barry Bearak was released on bail and must stay in the country, either at a U.S. diplomatic residence or in a medical facility.... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted April 7, 2008 9:03 AM
I've received a lot of emails since Friday repeating a sarcastic exchange between former Daily News reporter Val Kuklenski, who left in the newsroom thinning a month ago, and Dave... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted April 6, 2008 11:26 PM
A story posted on the Daily News website quotes longtime City Hall reporter Rick Orlov and attorney David Fleming, who joined with the Daily News to help bankroll the Valley... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted April 4, 2008 6:20 PM
Ron Kaye emailed the newsroom this note. The staff has been told to be on hand Monday morning at 10 am for the introduction of the next editor. Everyone: All... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted April 4, 2008 4:49 PM
Steve Lowery reported as editor in chief on Monday, put out his first issue of CityBeat on Thursday, then tendered his resignation last night. "I felt horrible when I called... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted April 4, 2008 11:46 AM
The OC Weekly's Nick Schou got a double dose of good news today. Universal is developing a film based on his 2006 book "Kill the Messenger," about the late journalist... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted April 3, 2008 9:20 PM
New York Times reporter Barry Bearak and another journalist were detained for "practicing without accreditation," a government spokesman in Zimbabwe confirmed. Bearak is a former L.A. Times staff writer. NYT... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted April 3, 2008 8:55 PM
That's coming from Paul Oberjuerge, who lost his job as a sports columnist in the recent putsch so may not be the most objective observer. But he also worked for... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted April 3, 2008 4:24 PM
Barry Bearak, a New York Times correspondent based in Johannesburg, was arrested today by police in Harare, where he was covering the elections. Editor Bill Keller says in a statement:... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted April 3, 2008 2:35 PM
First Lewis Segal, now Laura Bleiberg at the Register. Memo via email from the Orange County paper's online features editor after the jump.... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted April 3, 2008 2:31 PM
Sources at the Daily News and outsiders close to Ron Kaye say he will be replaced by an editor from Northern California. Nothing official yet, but the announcement could be... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted April 2, 2008 10:35 PM
Gustavo Arellano finally cops that the demise of his Ask a Mexican column was an April Fool's Day gag — he just got the jump on the other five million... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted April 2, 2008 12:39 AM
Michael Kinsley's tenure in Los Angeles may not have gone smoothly or ended gracefully. But I enjoyed being reminded in this week's New Yorker how engaging he is as a... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted April 1, 2008 11:06 PM
Times City Hall reporter David Zahniser cracks Column One for the first time with a first-person story about his 1989 Toyota Camry being stolen and recovered three times in six... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted March 31, 2008 12:21 AM
I'm told that two of the original CityBeat columnists have given up their gigs in response to last week's dump of editor Steve Appleford. Natalie Nichols writes the pop-culture column... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted March 30, 2008 11:08 PM
Gustavo Arellano announced in today's OC Weekly column that he's dropping the long-running ¡Ask a Mexican! gig that has brought him fame and...well, maybe just fame. And lots of angry... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted March 27, 2008 6:10 PM
Betty Pleasant, the Wave's Soulvine columnist, has been hammering away that there is a racial aspect to the gang murders sweeping South Los Angeles and the Eastside. LAPD chief Bill... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted March 27, 2008 9:25 AM
After this week's issue went to bed earlier today, the staff of CityBeat was told that founding editor Steve Appleford is being replaced by Steve Lowery, who starts Monday. This... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted March 26, 2008 11:40 PM
The every-burgeoning Los Angeles entertainment desk of Associated Press snagged a photo editor from Getty Images. Press release on the hire of Guinevere Smith as national entertainment photo editor after... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted March 24, 2008 5:36 PM
Greg Krikorian, a Los Angeles Times veteran who is the lead reporter on the Anthony Pellicano trial, applied for and received the recent buyout. He's joining the office of the... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted March 24, 2008 4:48 PM
Eric Alterman's piece considers the HuffPost as a step along the path of evolving news and opinion, away from the printed newspaper. Some tidbits: First envisaged as a liberal alternative... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted March 24, 2008 9:14 AM
The common link is the Los Angeles Press Club. Shearer, the actor and host of a popular KCRW show, will emcee the club's June 21 awards dinner at the Biltmore... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted March 20, 2008 12:46 PM
Rip Rense attended last week's Los Angeles Herald Examiner reunion, but he found it too surreal and disorienting to see his old colleagues — and editor Jim Bellows — 19... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted March 19, 2008 11:57 PM
Longtime L.A. Times pop critic Robert Hilburn has signed with ModernTimes/Rodale to do a "deeply personal and highly opinionated memoir" of his decades covering the music scene. From the flackage:... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted March 18, 2008 11:41 AM
For last week's reunion of Los Angeles Herald Examiner alums, organizer Alex Ben Block, columnist for Hollywood Today.net, and Josh Kleinbaum, managing editor of interactive for the Los Angeles Newspaper... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted March 16, 2008 4:25 PM
Ron Kaye, editor of the Daily News, delivers an homage on the paper's Op-Ed page to Jim Bellows, the editor of the Los Angeles Herald Examiner when Kaye was there.... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted March 13, 2008 9:21 AM
Journalist Sharon Waxman is happy with her new silver Prius, except there are so many around that look alike. Today at Trader Joe's, she threw her bags in, plopped down... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted March 12, 2008 6:17 PM
Wes Hughes, a former editor at various levels of the Los Angeles Times, was a city editor and columnist at the San Bernardino Sun until last week's layoffs. In the... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted March 11, 2008 6:11 PM
Twelve U.S. journalists from ethnic media have been selected to take part in a week-long program, "Immigration: Reporting the Full Story," put on March 16-23 by USC Annenberg's Institute for... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted March 11, 2008 5:27 PM
Paul Oberjuerge was writing his column for the San Bernardino Sun when he got the call. They were "eliminating the position of sports columnist for the Inland group.” These days,... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted March 11, 2008 10:59 AM
The documentary Citizen McCaw opened Friday night to a sell-out crowd of 2,200, reportedly including Wendy McCaw's sister, said to have remarked that she loved the film. Afterward, the crowd... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted March 9, 2008 12:41 AM
Couple of bad links fixed Sports columnist Paul Oberjuerge, science writer Elise Kleeman and former LAT editor Wes Hughes are among the staffers out of jobs in this week's round... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted March 8, 2008 4:48 PM
One reporter each at the Pasadena Star-News and San Gabriel Valley Tribune so far, says former LANGland editor and reporter Gary Scott. More expected at the Inland Empire properties, he... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted March 6, 2008 12:10 PM
Times sports columnist (and former editor of the section) Bill Dwyre gave a nice shout out in today's column to laid-off sports staffers at the rival Daily News: Finally, a... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted March 6, 2008 9:55 AM
Harrison Sheppard is returning to the Woodland Hills office, where he will do a mix of editing and reporting, the Sacramento Bee's Capitol Alert says. Sheppard went up to Sacramento... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted March 5, 2008 1:02 PM
Alumni of the late Los Angeles Herald Examiner, as they called it toward the end, are gathering March 13 at the L.A. Press Club. The paper closed 19 years ago... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted March 3, 2008 8:41 PM
The documentary on Wendy McCaw's wreckage in Santa Barbara premieres Friday night up there. Filmmaker Sam Tyler, who will speak after the showing, says they thought about calling it "Will... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted March 3, 2008 2:16 PM
In his first column since the newspaper he has headlined for 30 years was decimated, "Mr. Press-Telegram" Tom Hennessey took a deep breath and railed at the horrible injustice of...Sam... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted March 2, 2008 7:51 PM
The Paper Trail, blog of the Daily News newsroom guild, names names and posts tributes to the staff who departed Friday. Included in the toll are Lisa Friedman, the paper's... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted March 2, 2008 2:13 PM
I'm told by a staffer that the positions of publisher and managing editor were eliminated today at the Long Beach Press-Telegram, along with the copy desk and most of the... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted February 29, 2008 2:59 PM
* Rewritten at 2:40 pm with better info Brent Hopkins, the Daily News reporter who has been keeping everybody informed about pending cuts via his blog, took the buyout and... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted February 29, 2008 12:35 PM
Crisis PR executive Michael Sitrick tried to collect a $7.7 million judgment from Ryan Kavanuagh, but a judge Friday said no. The reason is that Sitrick apparently agreed previously not... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted February 23, 2008 10:25 AM
Dan Becker, the Los Angeles-based director of entertainment content for Associated Press, announced a couple of moves as part of the wire service turning up its entertainment coverage: The Los... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted February 22, 2008 9:08 AM
The Los Angeles Press Club's "national entertainment awards" are new and mostly local. Winners include Matthew Garrahan of the local Financial Times bureau for best print news story, Jacob Soboroff... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted February 22, 2008 8:58 AM
When LA Observed was just a toddler of a blog, I watched Nancy Rommelmann chronicle her anxiety-filled but hopeful (and ultimately happy) move to Portland in a blog she called... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted February 20, 2008 11:15 PM
Slate editor Jacob Weisberg gave a little shout out to LA Observed in his remarks last night at a book party at Arianna Huffington's home. Actually, he noted that I... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted February 20, 2008 6:04 PM
Dana Goodyear, the New Yorker's blogging L.A. staff writer, had her own paparazzi encounter recently near the Chateau Marmont that inspired her to check out New York magazine's nudes of... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted February 20, 2008 5:57 PM
The onetime rising star at Telemundo whose career burned up in the wreckage of an affair with Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa has taken the familiar post-TV route — AM radio. Tomorrow's... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted February 19, 2008 9:43 PM
In the March issue, Los Angeles kicks off a contest to let readers pick the single greatest thing about Los Angeles. They start with 64 in the magazine, then whittle... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted February 19, 2008 5:25 PM
Talking Points Memo, the Democratic politics blog run by Joshua Micah Marshall, received a prestigious (within journalism) George Polk Award for legal reporting. TPM "led the news media coverage of... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted February 18, 2008 9:49 PM
The Republican National Committee convened its winter retreat for major donors this weekend at the Beverly Wilshire Hotel, presenting Karl Rove and figure such as RNC chairman Robert Duncan —... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted February 18, 2008 9:20 PM
Larry Lipson wrote up restaurants for the Daily News starting in 1958. From his exit column: Sure, there have been editors who have leaned somewhat heavily on me - especially... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted February 15, 2008 1:25 AM
Marc Cooper sinks the hooks on Speaker Fabian Núñez at the LA Weekly website: With great pride, I accepted the honor a few months back of being labeled 'the state's... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted February 12, 2008 10:46 PM
William Booth, resident feature writer in L.A. for the Washington Post, lurked at Saturday night's Scientific and Technical Awards given out by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted February 11, 2008 12:13 PM
Leo Greene chronicled his fight with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis for more than a year in the pages of the Inland Valley Daily Bulletin, where he was a reporter, columnist and... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted February 10, 2008 2:39 AM
Last year's managing editor of the Los Angeles Times (actually he stayed nearly two years) will be on Hugh Hewitt's radio show Thursday. Frantz and his wife, Catherine Collins, will... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted February 6, 2008 9:42 PM
The novelist and Los Angeles Times Op-Ed columnist shows up today on the New York Times' books blog, in a weekly feature that posts "a playlist of songs from a... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted February 6, 2008 8:59 AM
The Portfolio contributing editor and former LAT writer — she covered the porn beat for a time and did that great West magazine piece on Joe Francis of Girls Gone... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted February 5, 2008 6:51 PM
The veteran Times columnist, briefly dumped last year, holds his nose and starts posting on Blogspot: A blog is generally a loathsome, tedious creation of the electronic age, an opportunity... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted February 5, 2008 3:23 PM
The talent at Channel 11 has been strongly encouraged to blog for MyFox LA, the branding given the station's website. Reporter John Schwada has taken to it easier than most... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted February 3, 2008 12:41 AM
Joe Mathews, who's covering the presidential campaign, will leave the Los Angeles Times sometime after Super Tuesday to join the New America Foundation as a California Fellow. Other ex-Timesmen already... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted February 2, 2008 9:03 PM
Soulvine columnist Betty Pleasant says that Councilman Bernard Parks and former mayor Richard Riordan are trying to stave off the closing of Daniel Murphy High School, Parks' alma mater. The... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted February 2, 2008 3:41 PM
Television reporter James Hibberd is leaving TV Week to take a newly created slot on the broadcasting beat at The Hollywood Reporter, I'm told. The path is getting familiar. Melissa... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted February 1, 2008 5:44 PM
Schwed spent 11 years as a writer and columnist at TV Guide, based in Hollywood, as well as working on-air on E! and the TV Guide Channel. Before that he... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted January 31, 2008 3:14 PM
Former L.A. Times movie critic Jack Mathews says he'll retire from the New York Daily News at the end of February. He and his wife are moving to the Oregon... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted January 30, 2008 4:03 PM
Janet Clayton stepped down last year as the L.A. Times editor in charge of Metro and California coverage, which followed a long stint as editor of the editorial pages. Today... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted January 30, 2008 2:31 PM
Alumni of the old Herald-Examiner received word this weekend that photographer Steve Grayson passed away. I have no details, but someone who knew him circled Grayson in the front of... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted January 28, 2008 12:47 AM
While the battered denizens at the L.A. Times wait to hear whether their next editor will be a patsy for the publisher or an actual respected newsroom leader with independence... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted January 25, 2008 3:20 PM
Liz Gaier lasted thirteen months at the newspaper in Torrance. So much for the South Bay roots that were touted when she arrived in December 2006. The Los Angeles Newspaper... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted January 22, 2008 5:17 PM
Fran Lewine covered the White House for Associated Press from Eisenhower to Carter. After a stop as deputy director of public affairs at Transportation under Carter, she went to CNN... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted January 21, 2008 11:55 PM
Big day for email address scavengers, thanks to Susan Estrich. Her own email announcing a move to L.A. law firm Quinn Emanuel went out to a big list of prominent... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted January 17, 2008 5:29 PM
Couple of good profiles in this week's Jewish Journal. One updates Claude Brodesser-Akner, who has turned "The Business" on KCRW into a weekly success (and got out of Fishbowl LA... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted January 17, 2008 4:53 PM
The documentary "Citizen McCaw" bills itself as "the story of an epic struggle for the soul of journalism." It will debut in Santa Barbara on March 7, assuming it isn't... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted January 17, 2008 12:11 AM
The post-9/11 sensation and defrocked global terrorism reporter with the square-rimmed Lafont eyeglasses — dumped by NBC after she bombed as an anchor and criticized Fox News in a speech... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted January 16, 2008 8:53 PM
Nancy Cleeland covered labor for the Times and shared in the Pulitzer for coverage of WalMart's global impact. She writes about her latest life turn today at the Huffington Post.... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted January 11, 2008 1:31 PM
Sara Catania was a reporter for the Times, Daily News and LA Weekly — and watches The Wire on HBO. The experiences left her with the perspective that "to be... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted January 11, 2008 9:14 AM
The New York Times' former Hollywood reporter in the L.A. bureau resigned rather than take an assignment back in New York. She's been writing a book on the global antiquities... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted January 10, 2008 7:38 PM
Just to follow up up our Sunday report: Dave Reeves, the columnist for Arthur magazine jailed over not reporting a traffic mishap on his bike, has been released. Jenny Burman... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted January 9, 2008 9:10 AM
One entry in the program for the Towne Street Theatre's upcoming Ten-Minute Play Festival in Hollywood caught my eye. In the TST 2nd Annual Ten-Minute Play Festival, audiences will again... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted January 7, 2008 12:46 PM
Arthur magazine's columnist Dave Reeves is serving time in Men's Central Jail over a bike accident, and his friends aren't happy about it. "A series of bizarro events and idiocies... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted January 6, 2008 10:00 PM
Troy Senik, legal editor at the L.A. Daily Journal, is leaving for a speechwriting job at the Bush White House. He formerly scribbled for Arnold Schwarzenegger and Newt Gingrich and... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted January 4, 2008 4:25 PM
David Butler was editor of the Daily News in Woodland Hills until Dean Singleton bought the Detroit News and installed Butler as editor and publisher. That was in 2005. Now... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted January 4, 2008 11:59 AM
The New York Observer writes of Nikki Finke, calling her The Media Mensch of the Year: The biggest entertainment story of the year has also turned into the biggest story... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted January 2, 2008 8:36 AM
In the Washington Post Style section's annual what's out and what's in list, Hank Stuever deems Miss Manners out and says the hip new advice column is Gustavo Arellano's !Ask... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted January 2, 2008 8:14 AM
Marc Germain, the talk radio host formerly known as Mr. KABC and Mr. KFI, has been let go as liberal-talk KTLK's Mr. K. "A total surprise and not my choice... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted January 1, 2008 4:30 PM
John Stodder, the former Fleishman-Hillard executive whose wire fraud and conspiracy conviction is on appeal, blogs about the pressure of facing Christmas with a prison sentence hanging over your head,... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted December 31, 2007 6:02 PM
An administrative law judge has ruled that wacky Wendy McCaw's Santa Barbara News-Press did violate a number of federal labor laws and must re-hire — and give back pay —... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted December 31, 2007 1:11 PM
Josh Rawitch of the Dodgers gets personal in his blog farewell to Stu Nahan.... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted December 27, 2007 11:01 PM
The Kings held a moment of silence before tonight's game to honor Stu Nahan, the former sportscaster at channels 4, 5 and 7 and sports talk host on KABC and... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted December 26, 2007 10:57 PM
Robert J. Rosenthal, the former managing editor of the San Francisco Chronicle, will lead the Center for Investigative Reporting, the Berkeley-based independent reporting group co-founded by Lowell Bergman that has... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted December 19, 2007 2:47 PM
The editor's note on page 34 of the new Vanity Fair caught my eye (well, after it was pointed out to me): "In Bryan Burrough's 'showdown at Fort Sumner' (December),... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted December 19, 2007 12:50 PM
Seems there is some backstory to today's LA Weekly cover piece on Los Angeles street gang violence by Peter Landesman. It apparently had started as a piece for the New... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted December 13, 2007 1:08 PM
In a piece on semi-retiring Long Beach columnist Tom Hennessy, the District Weekly's Dave Wielenga says the Press-Telegram is losing local control in the consolidation of roles and content within... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted December 13, 2007 11:57 AM
Evan George has left the Downtown News for the Los Angeles Daily Journal, where he will take over the health care beat and cover insurance lawsuits, health care reform and... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted December 12, 2007 9:57 AM
The OC Weekly's Gustavo Arellano did a guest-host stint last week on KFI — yes the same AM shout station where John & Ken live in fear of the Reconquista... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted December 3, 2007 7:11 AM
The Greater Los Angeles Chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists has picked six journalists to honor at its banquet next April. The winners of SPJ's Distinguished Journalist Award: Beth... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted December 2, 2007 8:24 PM
The Los Angeles Press Club is getting into the non-geographic awards game, announcing it will accept entries (for $35 each) and give out the National Entertainment Journalism Awards next year.... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted November 27, 2007 11:31 PM
Remember Alisa Valdes-Rodriguez, the journalist who quit the L.A. Times in a huffy outburst and resurfaced as a successful novelist? (And who more recently mourned the death of Cathy Seipp.)... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted November 27, 2007 11:56 AM
We told you Saturday that Matt Welch had left the L.A. Times editorial page to return to Reason magazine, and said to await further details. Well, here they are via... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted November 27, 2007 8:50 AM
Former Los Angeles Times staffer Michael Krikorian, one of several reporters to work the paper's gangs beat over the past decade or so (he later contributed a number of strong... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted November 24, 2007 2:15 PM
Bill Nye "The Science Guy," who lives in Studio City, wants a restraining order to protect himself from his former wife, Blair Tindall, author of Mozart in the Jungle: Sex,... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted November 19, 2007 11:58 PM
Veteran anchor-reporter Linda Alvarez is taking her leave of Channel 2 at the end of the month, concluding 14 years at the station. Here's the so-long email and invitation she... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted November 18, 2007 11:36 PM
The writers strike has inspired a frenzy of non-stop posting by Nikki Finke at Deadline Hollywood Daily. (I shudder to think of the condition of her office.) Since Friday morning... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted November 18, 2007 11:25 PM
L.A. Times photographer Luis Sinco has been immersed in the life of former Marine Cpl. James Miller since the horrible day in 2004 when Sinco snapped this photo during a... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted November 12, 2007 10:15 PM
It's hiring memo day at the L.A. Times. First, before he became the Wall Street Journal Hollywood columnist and a Sitrick and Company troubleshooter, John Lippman covered the television biz... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted November 12, 2007 3:53 PM
Want to know how editorial cartoonists work? The Daily News' Patrick O'Connor posts early sketches, talks about his process for deciding on a topic and even tells the occasional tale... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted November 8, 2007 2:57 PM
The Washington Post team in Los Angeles is losing their bureau aide to National Public Radio [actually KCRW, see below] and would like to hire another pretty quickly. If it's... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted November 1, 2007 11:36 PM
The former Los Angeles Business Journal reporter and L.A.-based blogger was dismissed this week as an editorial writer for the Indianapolis Star after posting a blog item that had, apparently,... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted November 1, 2007 10:34 PM
Martin J. Smith and Barbara Thornburg were, I think, the last senior editors at the Los Angeles Times Magazine to pre-date and survive the West experiment. Anyway, Smith is finally... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted October 31, 2007 9:11 PM
The Los Angeles Business Journal isn't losing people as fast as it did there for awhile, but there is a new defection. Todd Cunningham, the assistant managing editor, is jumping... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted October 25, 2007 10:07 PM
Christy Porter was a photojournalist in Kentucky when the little paper where she worked did hard investigations of local sacred cows like the university basketball program. She moved to L.A.... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted October 25, 2007 9:47 PM
Full surrender by Maricopa County Attorney Andrew Thomas, who held a press conference in Phoenix this afternoon to admit it was stupid to arrest New Times founders Jim Larkin and... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted October 19, 2007 9:16 PM
Michael Lacey (right) and Jim Larkin, the founders and top dogs at Village Voice Media, were taken in at home by deputies after their Phoenix New Times weekly disclosed yesterday... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted October 19, 2007 7:59 AM
This one's not voluntary. Dave Shulman, who has columnized at the Weekly since 1998 — first as Sitegeist, more recently as Column Dave — was informed today that the run... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted October 11, 2007 10:48 PM
In one of those glib, fast-moving pronouncement pieces that magazines are in love with, Details pronounces the suburbs hip in the November issue. The sidebar anoints Montrose as a worthy... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted October 9, 2007 9:48 PM
The last time that Kitty Felde's one-act play "Man With No Shadow" was staged in Los Angeles, the lead actress was Lana Clarkson. Now that the play is opening October... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted October 9, 2007 9:21 PM
Couple of new ones to me, just as Daniel Hernandez prepares to decamp to Mexico City. Abel Salas, who has written for the New York Times, L.A. Times Magazine and... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted October 8, 2007 10:51 PM
This reorganization was announced Friday, but since I wasn't paying attention then — and I want to have the moves noted in the archives — here it is a couple... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted October 8, 2007 10:11 PM
Mark Frauenfelder, Xeni Jardin and the rest of the very successful Boing Boing blog team launched tv.boingboing.net tonight. Xeni explains on the site: The idea is simple. Explore the same... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted October 2, 2007 9:06 PM
Corn is one of those writers who seemed like he might be at The Nation forever. But he's jumping to a newly powered-up Mother Jones presence in Washington. He'll be... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted October 1, 2007 3:15 PM
Marc Cooper is joining the Huffington Post as special correpondent and will direct coverage of the 2008 political campaigns for OfftheBus.net, a co-venture of the Huffington Post and NewAssignment.net, NYU... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted September 20, 2007 10:54 AM
Jill Ishkanian is the ex-senior reporter in Los Angeles who quit US Weekly to form Sunset Photo and News and was accused last year of breaking into the magazine's editing... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted September 18, 2007 2:34 PM
Some 100 journalists and others who attended last week's Mothers Against Drunk Driving national awards luncheon in St. Louis came down with food poisoning. MADD's email to participants: I hope... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted September 18, 2007 1:53 PM
Daily News television blogger David Kronke had a bad run-in with some nuts (he's allergic) at this weekend's pre-Emmy tea thrown by BAFTA and the BBC. Kronke refers to himself... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted September 17, 2007 6:10 PM
Friends are being told that LA Weekly staff writer Judith Lewis gave notice today and will leave by the end of the year, after finishing up some stories. That means... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted September 14, 2007 4:22 PM
When Jill Stewart was forced on the LA Weekly as deputy editor by headquarters in Phoenix, there was much speculation on how her politically charged editing style would sit with... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted September 13, 2007 11:29 PM
Memo to the staff from Editor Ron Kaye: Everyone: I'm very pleased to announce that Judi Erickson has been named City Editor. She succeeds Barbara Jones who is coordinating content... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted September 11, 2007 11:21 AM
Ex-Times columnist J.A. Adande has resurfaced as the NBA columnist for ESPN.com, a move that David Davis comments on at SoCal Sports Observed. Adande's first column talks about why he... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted August 16, 2007 2:30 PM
City editor Jennifer Hamm is leaving the Daily Journal for a communications gig at law firm Skadden Arps. Here's the newsroom memo from Daily Journal editor Martin Berg: It was... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted August 15, 2007 10:53 PM
Lesley Balla helped in 2003 to launch LA.com as an informed, even sassy hub of opinionated takes on Los Angeles. She doesn't like what has happened now that the Daily... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted August 15, 2007 2:55 PM
The transsexual sportswriter formerly known as Mike Penner is interviewed by host Madeleine Brand on tomorrow's NPR show. It airs at 9 am on KPCC-FM or can be heard online.... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted August 14, 2007 3:36 PM
Former L.A. Times feature writer-turned-novelist Alisa Valdes-Rodriguez had been a victim of journalist Cathy Seipp's gratuitous mean side, and gave it back to her. But she was sad to learn... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted August 14, 2007 8:47 AM
There's no question that CP Smith, A1 editor of the Orange County Register, was caught on camera picking his nose behind a TV set in the newsroom. Also no dispute... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted August 9, 2007 5:59 PM
Former L.A. Times reporter and editor George Ramos has stepped down as chairman of the Cal Poly San Luis Obispo journalism department. No explanation was given in the report in... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted August 9, 2007 1:06 PM
Retired L.A. Times garden editor Robert Smaus has moved to the Pacific Northwest and says goodbye to the soil of Rancho Park in a piece today. He's probably advised more... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted August 9, 2007 11:31 AM
Steve Wasserman and Robert Scheer are together again. The former Los Angeles Times book editor, now managing director of the New York office of Kneerim & Williams at Fish &... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted August 9, 2007 10:49 AM
A reporter who has taken a job for Wacky Wendy McCaw at the Santa Barbara News-Press is going in with blind optimism about the, uh, working conditions and, apparently, not... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted August 7, 2007 11:28 PM
Poet and New Yorker staff writer Dana Goodyear has begun Postcard from Los Angeles on the magazine's website. Her first blog post is an homage to the late Elizabeth Stromme,... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted August 5, 2007 10:38 AM
PEN USA has chosen the winners of its 2007 literary awards for writers and journalists in the West. Among the local winners is Cynthia Kadohata, who won in children's literature... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted July 31, 2007 2:20 PM
Jonathan Diamond is leaving the City Attorney's press office after a bit more than two years. He had been assistant managing editor at the Los Angeles Business Journal, and plans... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted July 30, 2007 3:10 PM
Elizabeth Guider, a 18-year vet at Variety who has been sliding down the masthead lately, has jumped to The Hollywood Reporter as Editor. Most recently she was an editor at... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted July 30, 2007 11:54 AM
Former LA Weekly publisher Michael Sigman has optioned the film rights to that piece about Washington lobbyists in Harper's by reporter Ken Silverstein, who posed as a customer to nab... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted July 27, 2007 5:07 PM
San Bernardino Sun sports columnist Paul Oberjuerge seems to have a bit of a thing about Christine Daniels, the transgender sports scribe for the L.A. Times. Oberjuerge encountered Daniels in... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted July 23, 2007 11:21 PM
A medical examiner in New York told perfumer Anya McCoy that the autopsy results will be known in about six weeks. McCoy says that Jeremy Blake, Duncan's longtime boyfriend, found... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted July 20, 2007 2:49 PM
In addition to yesterday's flurry of moves, and a couple of others we broke the news on Tuesday (and Monday), here are the latest transactions: The Times grabbed OC Weekly... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted July 20, 2007 12:55 AM
David Lazarus is joining the L.A. Times in August to write a Business section column. Let's hope the San Francisco Chronicle, his current employer, knew before the house ad popped... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted July 19, 2007 3:55 PM
Today's arrival of Gustavo Arellano's ¡Ask a Mexican! column in the Sacramento News and Review was greeted by three stories in that upstate alt-weekly, including a dishy tell-some piece by... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted July 19, 2007 3:43 PM
Glenn Bunting took the buyout from the L.A. Times last month and signed on at Sitrick and Company. Guess he makes his old colleagues nervous. Check out this email that... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted July 19, 2007 1:57 PM
Alan Mittelstaedt, who left the LA Weekly in the Jill Stewart changeover, joins CityBeat today as News Editor, the same title he had at the Weekly. Dean Kuipers went... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted July 19, 2007 12:02 PM
I'm told that Women's Wear Daily confirms in today's paper that editors pulled a recent story on Hollywood journo Nikki Finke off the paper's website. (It's not on Lexis/Nexis or... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted July 18, 2007 1:12 AM
The onetime maven of media mixers sold mediabistro.com today for $23 million. The buyer is Internet research firm Jupitermedia, which wants the company for the revenue from jobs ads and... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted July 17, 2007 9:35 PM
Art Marroquin is leaving City News Service for the Daily Breeze, where he will take over the LAX and Port of Los Angeles beat. That's a major beat for the... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted July 17, 2007 5:14 PM
KTLA News Director Jeff Wald informed his department this morning that he's leaving the station to spend more time his family. Wald's wife died suddenly last December, and he has... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted July 17, 2007 11:25 AM
Newly reunited at Los Angeles Magazine with his former editor Kit Rachlis, Moehringer explains at the end of a long profile of an obscure musician he admires how it was... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted July 17, 2007 10:46 AM
The staff at the LA Weekly was informed that Kate Sullivan is out and the new music editor is Randall Roberts, who was sent west from Village Voice Media's Riverfront... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted July 16, 2007 11:55 PM
The half-hour that Warren Olney hosts on KCRW at 7 pm Monday through Thursday "remains an abiding presence in the landscape of local news," Sean Mitchell writes in a freelanced... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted July 16, 2007 2:27 PM
Howard Bragman of Fifteen Minutes Public Relations, co-founder of what used to be Bragman Nyman Cafarelli, talks with the Los Angeles Business Journal's Anne Riley-Katz about being a celebrity PR... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted July 15, 2007 5:33 PM
Jacob Bernstein, offspring of Nora Ephron and Carl Bernstein, tried in the July 6 Women's Wear Daily to comprehend the Nikki Finke phenomenon. He writes that "Finke has vaulted to... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted July 15, 2007 2:07 PM
Laurie Pike, the style director at Los Angeles Magazine, lives here but owns three flats in Paris and runs an English-language blog for ex-pats and visitors. The New York Times... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted July 13, 2007 3:57 PM
Sharon Waxman is on leave from the Hollywood beat at the New York Times bureau on Wilshire to write a book about museums and the international antiquities market. She's currently... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted July 13, 2007 11:51 AM
LARadio.com reported that longtime news reporter and anchor Chris Stanley was escorted from the radio station last Thursday after "a major blow-up of some sort." KNX program director David G.... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted July 9, 2007 11:38 PM
Steven Maviglio, deputy chief of staff to Speaker Fabian Núñez, called the LA Weekly's Marc Cooper the state's worst political journalist on the state Democrats' website. Cooper calls it a... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted July 8, 2007 11:16 AM
Rick Wartzman, former editor of West magazine and the LAT's Business section, takes over Monday as director of the Drucker Institute at Claremont Graduate University. The institute runs programs and... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted July 8, 2007 11:10 AM
Longtime journalist Lou Cannon sums up the case against Santa Barbara News-Press owner Wendy McCaw in a lengthy open letter that runs in the Santa Barbara Independent. It follows another... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted July 8, 2007 10:54 AM
Geoff Kelly edited at the Daily News and Times and most recently was on the desk at the International Herald Tribune in Hong Kong. He died there last week after... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted July 2, 2007 4:46 PM
Two more refugees from West magazine who took buyouts to leave the Times have landed, both of them at Los Angeles. J.R. Moehringer comes on as writer-at-large. He is the... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted June 29, 2007 7:29 AM
Earlier this month, Marti Buscaglia was announced as the new publisher of the Orange County Register. Not going to happen. Current publisher N. Christian Anderson III said today that she... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted June 27, 2007 2:10 PM
The San Gabriel Valley Newspaper Group, part of the LANG empire, is moving people around and creating new positions. Larry Wilson fills the new job of Public Editor and will... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted June 27, 2007 8:40 AM
Los Angeles-based Washington Post writer William Booth chatted with Post readers online this morning about the Paris Hilton media circus. To the first commenter who said the media should be... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted June 26, 2007 1:55 PM
Slate.com has gone multimedia and unveiled a daily online video magazine. Slate V is based in the magazine's brand-new Venice offices and is headed up by Andy Bowers, the former... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted June 25, 2007 5:42 PM
Purging of top names at the San Francisco Chronicle continues. With a bunch of painful newsroom cuts still to come, Deputy Editor Narda Zacchino has decided the time is right.... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted June 25, 2007 12:05 AM
Now this should get interesting. LA Weekly political reporter David Zahniser, the hottest property on the City Hall beat, is jumping to the L.A. Times to cover Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa.... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted June 21, 2007 11:29 PM
Tom Philp, who won a Pulizer Prize for the Sacramento Bee in 2005, will become an "executive strategist" with the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California. The Bee will miss... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted June 21, 2007 11:37 AM
Writers Dan Neil and Charles Perry of the L.A. Times (and former LAT film critic Manohla Dargis) are on MSNBC's list of 144 journalists who donated to political campaigns between... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted June 21, 2007 9:12 AM
San Jose Mecury News veteran Richard Ramirez was found dead at his home in Livermore. Ramirez began at the paper as an intern in 1984 and held several positions, including... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted June 21, 2007 8:55 AM
LAPD Chief William Bratton was on the panel as KPCC reporter Patricia Nazario brought many in the audience to tears describing her encounter with a Metro Division officer (and his... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted June 21, 2007 8:49 AM
Catherine Elsworth, who holds down the Silver Lake bureau for the Daily Telegraph, would really like to test drive the new iPhone. But she was told by Apple that only... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted June 20, 2007 11:56 PM
The last of the West magazine senior writers to remain with the L.A. Times, Lynell George is moving back to her roots in Calendar. Here's today's memo from Lennie LaGuire,... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted June 19, 2007 11:36 PM
BBC correspondent David Willis' attempt to break into Hollywood as an actor has finally come to an end. But not before his ambitions crested with a call to be an... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted June 19, 2007 8:35 AM
Longtime L.A. Times staff writer Mark Arax and the paper reached an undisclosed settlement of their public dispute about a story he wrote about the Armenian genocide that was spiked,... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted June 17, 2007 11:25 PM
According to Babeland, the sex toy store on Melrose, Joel Stein will co-teach an oral sex workshop later this month. “I feel it's time to give back after taking so... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted June 13, 2007 5:46 PM
Ed Moss, the new publisher of the Daily News, arrives after spending just ten months at the Akron Beacon Journal — and slashing the workforce there from 734 to 600... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted June 11, 2007 9:03 PM
A federal jury acquitted former LAPD sergeant and Fox News reporter Roderick Bernsen of inappropriate sexual contact in a cruise ship sauna. End of the case, though Bernsen said: "My... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted June 11, 2007 3:37 PM
John McKeon didn't last long in Woodland Hills — he bounced Tracy Rafter and took over just last October. No word yet where he's headed. The new guy, Ed Moss,... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted June 11, 2007 1:17 PM
In 2002, crisis PR mogul Michael Sitrick and Cardinal Roger Mahony met with Times editors trying to squash an investigation of the archdiocese by then-reporter Glenn Bunting. Today, Bunting joined... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted June 11, 2007 12:23 PM
CBS2 anchor Paul Magers' former home in the Minneapolis area — called by one blogger a "grand-to-ostentatious Lake of the Isles mansion" — is in the news back there because... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted June 11, 2007 9:21 AM
Matthew Garrahan, the Financial Times' man in Los Angeles, reported Sunday that Apple is in advanced talks with Hollywood’s largest movie studios about "launching an online film rental service to... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted June 11, 2007 8:15 AM
The former editor of the Los Angeles Times editorial pages will be joining the New America Foundation as an Irvine Senior Fellow. Martinez, you'll remember, resigned in a huff after... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted June 7, 2007 7:44 PM
Annie Hundley arrived just last summer to run valleynews.com, the citizen journalism part of the Daily News website. Not any more, says this staff email from editor Ron Kaye: everyone:... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted June 7, 2007 1:31 PM
N. Christian Anderson yields the publisher portion of his title to Marti Buscaglia, publisher of the Duluth News Tribune. She formerly worked at the Long Beach Press-Telegram and at La... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted June 7, 2007 8:41 AM
City Editor Barbara Jones is being reassigned as part of a strategy to reconfigure how the L.A. Daily News gathers and delivers its content, online and in print. And, of... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted June 6, 2007 3:01 PM
Frances Dinkelspiel, author of a forthcoming book on L.A. pioneer Isaias Hellman (her great grandfather), tallies up the toll of veteran Chronicle editors who are exiting. She writes: You know... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted June 5, 2007 10:57 AM
The L.A. Times website is finally going 24-7 (ish) with the addition of a couple of overnight editors. They will scan the wires and, in theory, keep the home page... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted June 5, 2007 12:17 AM
Rip Rense was a reporter at the old Valley News and the late Herald Examiner, and keeps an online archive of the original L.A. Daily News at his website. He... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted June 4, 2007 5:54 PM
Longtime L.A. radio and television personality Tom Hatten left KNX Friday after delivering the entertainment report for many years. He became familiar to a generation of Southern California kids as... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted June 4, 2007 5:47 PM
This is the day for farewell messages down at the Times. A selection of emails to colleagues from the bought out and the otherwise leaving follows after the jump (with... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted June 1, 2007 1:20 PM
We reported before that L.A. Times Schwarzenegger reporter Peter Nicholas was leaving Sacramento for the Washington bureau. Now here's the memo from bureau chief Doyle McManus and national editor Scott... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted June 1, 2007 12:57 PM
The former CNN and ABC Good Morning America/Sunday anchor will be a HuffPost editor at large overseeing the site’s new Living Now section and help shape overall content. Release after... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted May 31, 2007 10:52 AM
Brooks Barnes is leaving the Wall Street Journal's television beat to cover the business of Hollywood in the New York Times bureau here. He is replacing New York-bound Laura Holson.... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted May 30, 2007 5:16 PM
Look at this Louie — we're on YouTube: Link... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted May 29, 2007 10:27 AM
Rumors are rampant that Real Talk LA, Jay Levin's new magazine, missed payroll this week and has shut down after one issue that hasn't been widely seen. Queries are... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted May 18, 2007 9:13 PM
Memo out of the Daily News building in Woodland Hills: We're pleased to announce that Jason Middleton is joining LA.Com as Editor. Jason came to the Daily News in January... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted May 15, 2007 3:44 PM
Bret Marcus, displaced by the cancellation of "California Connected," becomes Vice President of Programming, Publicity and Promotion at the local PBS station. Release after the jump.... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted May 15, 2007 11:16 AM
Kevin Sack was one of the New York Times veterans who came west to LAT territory in the Dean Baquet wagon train, and it was a no-brainer that he would... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted May 13, 2007 10:39 PM
Daniel Weintraub reports on the Sacramento Bee's Capitol Alert website that Robert Salladay, who writes the LAT's Political Muscle blog from Sacramento, plans to take the buyout. Here's the item,... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted May 11, 2007 9:05 AM
Today's issue of the LA Weekly is the annual People number, featuring an eclectix mix of a hundred Angelenos that includes LAPD renaissance cop Sunil Dutta, media gathering maven Scott... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted May 10, 2007 8:50 AM
Times reporter Mark Arax lives with his family in Fresno and has deep roots there — his 1996 book In My Father's Name investigated the failure of the Fresno police... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted May 8, 2007 5:22 PM
Deborah Day leaves Tribune's Metromix to become executive editor of Premiere.com, reporting to editorial director of digital media Matthew Rothenberg. At Metromix, the release says, "she oversaw West Coast operations... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted May 8, 2007 4:12 PM
Jesse Katz of Los Angeles magazine won the M.F.K. Fisher Distinguished Writing Award at yesterday's James Beard Foundation soiree. Katz won for "Wheels of Fortune," his piece last October on... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted May 8, 2007 8:50 AM
Although Paris Hilton might be going to jail, Elliot Mintz is now a free man. He announced last night that he has resigned as the tabloid fodder's harried mouthpiece. He... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted May 7, 2007 2:32 PM
The new website from L.A. online entrepreneur Andrew Breitbart launched Friday night with an exclusive interview with former Senator Fred Thompson, his first on video since the Republican debate at... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted May 6, 2007 11:32 PM
"I am not in prison! At least not yet, not for a few more weeks and hopefully never," John Stodder says in a Dear Friends email to city staffers, friends... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted May 4, 2007 8:57 AM
The Times sports writer formerly known as Mike Penner is scheduled to be interviewed live tonight at 11:30 on Sports Byline USA. She will chat with local journos John Woolard... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted May 4, 2007 8:44 AM
Billionaire Angeleno Ron Burkle didn't get to buy the L.A. Times, but he supposedly now is looking at tabloid publisher American Media. This according to the New York Post, via... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted May 3, 2007 8:33 AM
Natalie Nichols passes the editor's keyboard to Rebecca Epstein, announcing on her hipspinster blog that it's time to devote more time to her own writing. it is somewhat insane, perhaps,... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted May 1, 2007 5:58 PM
Mike Penner's column announcing his transition to Christine Daniels is already one of the most viewed LATimes.com stories of the past year, the paper says today in an interview with... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted April 27, 2007 8:51 AM
This week's Santa Barbara Independent jumps all over News-Mess owner Wendy McCaw and her people's team of lawyers (which now includes Marty Singer) for the weekend smear of ex-editor Jerry... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted April 26, 2007 10:53 PM
Well, just in the monologue "The Tonight Show" emails out: Here's an interesting local story, a L.A. Times sportswriter, Mike Penner...a very good sports writer, has announced he's undergoing a... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted April 26, 2007 8:09 PM
Veteran L.A. Times sports writer Mike Penner writes in today's paper that he will return from vacation in a few weeks as Christine Daniels. He lays out his personal journey... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted April 26, 2007 7:39 AM
A local television legend of sorts, and LA Observed oldie but goodie, returned tonight to the Los Angeles airwaves — and now to the blogosphere. Sharon Tay co-anchored the "KTLA... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted April 25, 2007 11:52 PM
David Halberstam was to be in Los Angeles tomorrow night for a featured conversation with Times columnist Tim Rutten at the Jewish Federation's annual legal dinner. In his place, federation... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted April 25, 2007 4:28 PM
It's Adam Gorfain, a 41 year old senior producer for "Dateline NBC" at the NBC News studios in Burbank, according to sometime NBC ABC independent investigative producer Eric Longabardi on... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted April 24, 2007 8:59 AM
Kevin Modesti, a columnist at the Daily News, becomes the first sports editor of the Los Angeles Newspaper Group chain. This means he oversees the increasingly shared sports coverage of... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted April 24, 2007 8:45 AM
The author and journalist was involved in a three-car crash this morning near the Dumbarton Bridge in San Mateo County, according to AP stories out of Menlo Park and San... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted April 23, 2007 4:00 PM
Wendy McCaw's News-Press ran a front page story today alleging that 15,000 pornographic images, including child porn, were found last summer on the computer hard drive of the former editor... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted April 22, 2007 4:12 PM
KPCC's Adolfo Guzman Lopez airs one of the fire and bomb threats called in to Academia Semillas del Pueblo, promising the Spanish-language charter school that its "beaners" would be... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted April 19, 2007 4:43 PM
As Daniel Hernandez puts it in today's LA Weekly, KPFK general manager Eva Georgia — gay, black, African immigrant, disliked by many at the station — has been accused of... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted April 19, 2007 9:07 AM
Tony Tranfa, web editor and jazz critic of the Daily Breeze, died today after collapsing in a hallway at Torrance Memorial, where he was admitted last week. “Tony’s death is... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted April 18, 2007 5:45 PM
Author Neal Pollack, a confirmed Dodgers junkie, ventured out to the stadium's new family-friendly right field pavilion and endured nine innings of all-you-can-eat madness. His guide in today's Slate explains... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted April 18, 2007 4:03 PM
Don LaFontaine, whose voice has been heard on movie trailers for decades, has gone public on a Geico commercial. That was reason enough for Radar Online to chat up the... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted April 18, 2007 11:27 AM
Bunch of new talent is being unveiled at KCRW 89.9 FM and KCRW.com, some of them with station connections. Leaving are longtime KCRW figure Tricia Halloran, whose "Brave New World"... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted April 17, 2007 3:56 PM
Here it is the eleventh hour in New York and after 8 pm in Phoenix, and the Village Voice Media website has yet to acknowledge the Pulitzer won by the... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted April 16, 2007 8:27 PM
David Kravets, the AP reporter in San Francisco covering the state high court and the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, becomes director of communications for the California Department of... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted April 16, 2007 2:13 PM
Degen Pener becomes editor-in-chief of Angeleno, while incumbent Alexandria Abramian-Mott remains with Modern Luxury Magazines as national home design editor. Pener has been features director of Santa Barbara Magazine and... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted April 16, 2007 2:04 PM
LA Weekly food writer Jonathan Gold won a Pulitzer Prize today in Criticism. It's the first Pulitzer ever for a food critic, according to the Weekly, and the paper's first.... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted April 16, 2007 12:16 PM
Channel 2 staffers are buzzing about their new entertainment reporter, Christina McLarty, being the girlfriend of Girls Gone Wild bad-boy Joe Francis. He's been in the news lately for his... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted April 13, 2007 7:12 AM
Metromix, the younger and, ahem, edgier sibling re-make of Calendar Live coming in June from the Times and Tribune, has staffed up. Deborah Vankin, formerly of Variety and LA Weekly,... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted April 12, 2007 2:10 PM
David Geffen told the Washington Post yesterday that "I continue to want to buy the Los Angeles Times," and a source close to the mogul says that "Geffen has spoken... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted April 5, 2007 12:18 PM
Waiting to hear just when (or if, considering appeals) he goes to federal prison in the Fleishman-Hillard case, Doug Dowie is writing up a storm. In addition to the screenplays... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted April 4, 2007 11:46 AM
The hometown Chicago Tribune got a long interview with the buyer of the L.A. Times, KTLA and everything else in the Tribune Company's portfolio (except the Cubs.) Mark Lacter gives... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted April 4, 2007 8:22 AM
In this month's Tu Ciudad, Rep. Loretta Sanchez and Mrs. Kobe Bryant contribute their favorite spots in Orange County and, to stay in the theme, OC Weekly writer Gustavo Arellano... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted April 3, 2007 10:12 PM
Jay Levin's forthcoming RealTalk LA (and RealTalkLA.com) will try to "reinvent the concept of a city magazine and create the next evolution of the local online community," the founder of... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted April 2, 2007 8:08 AM
The Chicago Tribune calls it an "epic corporate drama" that ends with the paper's parent company — owner of the Los Angeles Times and KTLA — being taken private by... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted April 2, 2007 7:09 AM
This afternoon at 2 pm Patt Morrison will have on the German photographer behind You-Are-Here.com, the best website of Los Angeles architectural photos. He blogs about his recent trip to... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted March 26, 2007 8:28 AM
Tim Swanson, who has been the west coast bureau chief of Premiere and a writer for Variety, will blog about "the worlds of film, music, television, and the digital industry"... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted March 26, 2007 8:24 AM
I received a whole bunch of thoughtful email last week on the Grazergate episode. Submissions are over at We Get Email from, among others, a former editorial writer at the... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted March 26, 2007 12:27 AM
We told you last week that radio personality April Winchell had blown Bill O'Reilly's cover as a man of the people by exposing his rant about croissants that were not... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted March 25, 2007 8:44 AM
Native Intelligence contributor David Rensin adds his voice to those saying goodbye to a valued friend in Cathy Seipp, who died Wednesday: I met Cathy, along with Emmanuelle Richard, through... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted March 22, 2007 10:41 PM
The former New York Post gossip reporter alleges that Beverly Hills gazillionaire Ron Burkle committed libel, emotional distress, interference in business relationship, injurious falsehood, abuse of process and civil conspiracy.... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted March 22, 2007 6:12 PM
Executive Editor Matt Coker isn't moving north to Long Beach — he's going another 400 miles further. His email to what remains of the OC Weekly staff follows: From: Matt... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted March 22, 2007 5:56 PM
Times publisher David Hiller says in the morning paper that he might kill this Sunday's Current section rather than run an editor's note about how Hollywood producer Brian Grazer was... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted March 22, 2007 1:34 AM
There will be a public funeral for Cathy Seipp at 10 am on Friday at Mt. Sinai Hollywood Hills on Forest Lawn Drive. Denise Hamilton at Native Intelligence: "It’s hard... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted March 21, 2007 7:59 PM
Cathy Seipp's public battle with lung cancer ended at 2:05 this afternoon. She was surrounded by family members and friends when she died at Cedars-Sinai. The Times' online obituary quotes... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted March 21, 2007 4:03 PM
Technically, I guess it's the booboo of the week because it was in last Thursday's LA Weekly issue. But I just noticed: The article “Nasty Battle for Classroom Control” [March... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted March 20, 2007 10:50 PM
I finally got around to Deborah Solomon's Q-and-A with Ron Burkle in Sunday's New York Times Magazine. He talks about Hillary, briefly glances off David Geffen and the L.A. Times,... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted March 20, 2007 8:48 AM
Michael Newman is the deputy editorial page editor at the Los Angeles Times who starred in a minor media dustup this month over his observation, from the vantage point of... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted March 19, 2007 3:51 PM
Journalist and blogger Cathy Seipp has been bravely and publicly battling lung cancer for many years. (She was not a smoker.) Her daughter Maia Lazar, a student at UC San... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted March 19, 2007 10:16 AM
Now that talkjock Marc Germain has left KABC 790 for the left side of the radio politics spectrum (and the right side of the AM dial at KTLK 1150), he... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted March 17, 2007 3:14 PM
There's continued talk at the L.A. Times of looming cost-cutting and a senior newsroom shift in the works, but I guess there is no hiring freeze. The LAT has snapped... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted March 16, 2007 3:10 PM
Last year's L.A. Times publisher, Jeffrey Johnson, has a taken an executive post where he will oversee media interests for Ron Burkle's Yucaipa Cos. Burkle, through Yucaipa, joined with Eli... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted March 16, 2007 8:22 AM
Channel 7 morning news anchor Phillip Palmer goes under the knife tomorrow at St. Vincent's to donate a kidney to a friend, former KCAL news editor Dale Davis. Palmer talks... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted March 13, 2007 5:35 PM
All three finalists in the cricitism category of the Pulitzer prizes are from Los Angeles, Joe Strupp reports at Editor & Publisher. The trio includes two Times critics who nominated... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted March 13, 2007 10:47 AM
Joseph Russin joins KTLA News as executive editor of planning. "Russin's responsibilities will include overseeing news coverage on-air and on the web, planning feature stories and supervising the work of... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted March 13, 2007 9:08 AM
Now we know why all those OC Weekly resignations have been coming so fast. Several of the departed are joining former Weekly editor Will Swaim in a new Long Beach... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted March 12, 2007 5:22 PM
Barbara Hansen's TableConversation.com picks up where her ethnic food columns in the Times food section left off. Hansen left the paper last June and since December has been quietly posting... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted March 12, 2007 9:13 AM
Sacramento Bee reporter Aurelio Rojas visits with Doug Dowie (his former boss at UPI) in today's paper and says the story of the ex-editor and Fleishman-Hillard power broker "has parallels... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted March 11, 2007 12:39 PM
As we hinted earlier, the columnist rotation changes. Out are Erin Aubry Kaplan (as reported previously), Max Boot and Jonathan Chait. Meghan Daum escapes the Saturday ghetto for Mondays. Also,... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted March 9, 2007 3:04 PM
Interim editor Steve Lowery has just become the latest OC Weekly staffer to depart in the wake of Village Voice Media's takeover. His email to staff: From: Steve Lowery Date:... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted March 9, 2007 12:18 PM
Mark Frauenfelder of BoingBoing was on "The Colbert Report" this week in his hat as Editor of Make magazine. Mark and the host fired marshmallows at each other and exchanged... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted March 9, 2007 8:19 AM
Rob Eshman, editor of the Jewish Journal, writes in the new issue that he decided to stop his moaning about America's reliance on foreign oil and do something about it.... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted March 8, 2007 9:54 PM
Bon Appétit senior editor Heather John began dreaming about her post-L.A. Marathon meal long before she entered (and completed) Sunday's race. When her first choice didn't work out, she settled... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted March 7, 2007 8:21 AM
Tavis Smiley scores an interview tonight on PBS with Bruce Gordon, who resigned Sunday after just nineteen months as head of the NAACP. "A 64 person board under any scenario... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted March 5, 2007 9:31 PM
Cynthia Littleton was the recently named (well, last March) editor of The Hollywood Reporter and Anne Thompson was deputy film editor. They join Variety as deputy editor for news development... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted March 5, 2007 3:34 PM
Today's Times Op-Ed column by Erin Aubry Kaplan will be one of her last. She has been told that her services will no longer be required come April, along with... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted February 28, 2007 12:34 PM
L.A. freelancer Janelle Brown has sold her debut novel, All We Ever Wanted Was Everything — "about a woman and her two daughters coming together after their lives are dramatically... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted February 27, 2007 9:24 PM
Chris Ayres, Los Angeles correspondent of the Times of London, liveblogged the Oscars and found Her Majesty Gwyneth Paltrow's vocal stylings a tad odd. For a Crossroads girl, anyway: "My... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted February 26, 2007 11:15 PM
Larry Kline, a former Times marketing exec, takes over as publisher of the San Gabriel Valley Tribune, Pasadena Star-News and Whittier Daily News. Last week it was the Press-Telegram that... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted February 26, 2007 2:42 PM
Dave Kuta, publisher and president of the Inland Valley Daily Bulletin, was moved across the Los Angeles News Group seating chart and just announced down in Long Beach as publisher... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted February 23, 2007 11:53 AM
The New York Times has created the new position of Deputy Culture Editor for Online Journalism and moved Ariel Kaminer over from Arts and Leisure to fill it. Memo from... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted February 22, 2007 10:40 AM
Amid resurgent newsroom talk of personnel cuts by the end of the quarter — that's March 31 for you civilians — the Times this afternoon undermined staff morale a bit... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted February 21, 2007 5:44 PM
Xeni Jardin reported on NPR's Day to Day about one of my favorite unofficial Wilshire Boulevard landmarks. One Wilshire, once a prestigious office tower, was converted long ago into a... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted February 20, 2007 12:31 PM
Jerry Roberts, the top editor who resigned rather than doctor the news for Wendy McCaw at the News-Press, is asking for donations to help fight a $25 million arbitration claim... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted February 17, 2007 9:12 AM
Portfolio is calling Claire Hoffman a contributing editor, starting immediately. Hoffman's jump from the L.A. Times was reported last month, shortly after she danced briefly with the New York Times.... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted February 16, 2007 9:54 AM
Dean Baquet, erstwhile editor of the Los Angeles Times, talks about his future at the NYT Washington bureau and the state of newspapering in a Q-and-A at the Poynter Online... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted February 15, 2007 12:08 PM
Fishbowl LA co-editor Mayrav Saar has gotten a bit too graphic for some readers of her Orange County Register column — again. On Tuesday she wrote about bringing a photo... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted February 15, 2007 6:17 AM
National editor Suzanne Daley wishes the former L.A. staff correspondent well in a newsroom note posted at Romenesko: Charlie was part of the team that won the Pulitzer for the... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted February 14, 2007 12:33 PM
Vernon Loeb, wooed off the CIA beat at the Washington Post in 2004 to run the Times' investigative team in Metro, is returning to the Philadelphia Inquirer as Metro Editor.... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted February 13, 2007 10:36 AM
Marc Germain and KABC could not come to agreement on a new deal so the popular night-time talk show host has left. LA Radio.com says the network wants KABC to... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted February 13, 2007 10:30 AM
TV and magazine writer Michael Sonnenschein, the erstwhile Fishbowl LA blogger for the Mediabistro empire, is getting back in the game. He is sitting in as guest editor of the... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted February 7, 2007 3:55 PM
Ryan Knoll and Scott Schmidt, the Republican political and communication consultants behind RSC Partners, are the new landlords at LA Voice.org. Creator Mack Reed made it official tonight that he... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted February 6, 2007 11:55 PM
Convicted and sentenced former Fleishman-Hillard exec Doug Dowie has optioned a screenplay to Jonathan Sanger, a producer on The Elephant Man, The Producers and Vanilla Sky. "It's kind of an... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted February 6, 2007 10:55 PM
Dawn Hobbs, Barney McManigal, and Rob Kuznia had participated in a Friday rally in which current and former employees hung a banner from a bridge over U.S. 101 saying "Cancel... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted February 6, 2007 10:57 AM
We told you yesterday afternoon that Rebecca Schoenkopf became the third exit in a week from the OC Weekly, and said her farewell "Commie Girl" column would run today. Well... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted February 1, 2007 5:19 PM
The Texas-based political humorist and syndicated columnist died Wednesday in Austin after a long and sometimes public battle with cancer. Ivins' death was announced by the Texas Observer, where she... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted February 1, 2007 2:25 AM
The three white female victims of the Halloween beating in Long Beach testified tearfully in court today and asked that the black defendants, in jail since then, get the... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted January 31, 2007 4:41 PM
“It became clearer and clearer to me that The New York Times was the place where I belonged now,” ex-LAT editor Dean Baquet told the New York Observer. He said... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted January 31, 2007 10:17 AM
Village Voice Media executive editor Mike Lacey showed up yesterday at the OC Weekly offices and created some ruffled feelings. Lacey brought along VVM executive managing editor Christine Brennan and... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted January 30, 2007 8:45 PM
Doug Dowie insisted he was innocent in a three-minute speech to the court before sentencing. John Stodder gets 15 months. The Times web story doesn't say where they will serve... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted January 30, 2007 4:54 PM
Former LAT editor on high Dean Baquet is returning to the New York Times as Washington bureau chief. He'll also be an assistant managing editor and instantly a potential contender... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted January 30, 2007 10:28 AM
They run it by collective, call it make/shift — subtitle "feminism in motion" — and plan to launch in March. One of the Los Angeles-based regulars caught my eye: Times... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted January 29, 2007 1:50 PM
As a clicks-generating tactic, LATimes.com could do worse than having op-ed columnist Joel Stein chat live with visitors again. Last week's chat brought in a few readers and some attention.... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted January 29, 2007 1:02 PM
Mark Saylor is leaving the entertainment practice at Sitrick & Company to launch his own crisis PR firm, Saylor Company. Saylor, the former entertainment desk editor in the L.A. Times... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted January 28, 2007 10:54 PM
The former editor of the Santa Barbara News-Press will provide adult supervision for the UCSB student paper, the Daily Nexus. Roberts' various travails covered here.... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted January 25, 2007 6:34 PM
Local bloggers and web entrepreneurs placed well on the Forbes Web Celeb 25, called "the biggest, brightest and most influential people on the Internet [and]...famous primarily for creating or appearing... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted January 25, 2007 5:03 PM
Will Swaim, founding editor of the OC Weekly, told the staff today that he's leaving. He didn't specifically address the New Times ownership, but he's thought to have tired of... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted January 25, 2007 3:48 PM
L.A. Times editors are busily trying to come up with a new beat attractive enough to keep Business section rising star Claire Hoffman away from the New York Times. The... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted January 25, 2007 2:05 AM
I watched Channel 5's "Prime News" at 10 pm to see how long they would go with real news before veering away to report on this morning's star ceremony on... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted January 24, 2007 10:16 PM
Tom Plate has a singular L.A. media distinction. He was the editorial page editor at the Los Angeles Times toward the end of the Chandler ownership era and, previously, at... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted January 24, 2007 4:28 PM
LA Observed contributor Jacob Soboroff caught up with local TV news legend Stan Chambers in Hollywood at KTLA's 60th anniversary bash. Click on the pic to watch the short video... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted January 24, 2007 4:11 PM
Sheriff's deputies are "relatively sure" they have the guy who spilled mercury in the Pershing Square Metro station last month. Armando Bustamante Miranda, 27, was being held on an... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted January 23, 2007 4:43 PM
The PR industry anony-blog Strumpette is making fun today of Villaraigosa press deputy Matt Szabo. He came up in Steve Lopez's recent Los Angeles Times column on Hummer-driving transportation aide... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted January 23, 2007 1:46 PM
Sordid stuff out of the Santa Barbara News-Mess never stops. Now owner Wendy McCaw has hit her former editor Jerry Roberts with a claim for $25 million. Let's see, he... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted January 19, 2007 10:15 AM
Syndicated columnist Art Buchwald, who died last night, taped his own "obituary video" for the New York Times. It's up on the front page of their site and includes the... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted January 18, 2007 10:41 AM
Twice Updated: Eli Broad and Ron Burkle and the Chandlers are readying competing bids for all or part of the Tribune, Jim Rainey reports in the LAT He essentially confirms... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted January 17, 2007 5:56 PM
Eli Broad has opened up a bigger lead on David Geffen as LA Observed readers' most likely (or preferred?) buyer of the L.A. Times. Ron Burkle runs a distant third;... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted January 17, 2007 11:55 AM
Rick Orlov gives a sneak peek at tomorrow's Tipoff column in the Daily News to LA Observed video blogger Jacob Soboroff — psst, there's a good item about City Attorney... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted January 14, 2007 7:51 PM
Jerry Roberts' 2006 included leaving as editor of the Santa Barbara News-Press, gaining unwanted national media attention, paying lawyers to defend himself against Wendy McCaw and being operated on to... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted January 11, 2007 12:59 PM
Elinor Shields leaves the BBC to become managing editor of the Huffington Post, based in New York. She will oversee day-to-day editorial operations, including the site's expanding ambitions toward original... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted January 11, 2007 9:53 AM
Never a dull moment on the Wendy McCaw/Santa Barbara News-Press beat. Today the American Journalism Review posted its response to her lawyers' complaint about the recent AJR story on the... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted January 10, 2007 8:43 PM
Items of L.A. note from today's Slate.com: → The John Lennon FBI files that Jon Wiener (of UC Irvine, The Nation and KPFK) finally wrested out of government hands last... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted January 9, 2007 4:08 PM
The Associated Press bureau on Figueroa threw a party this afternoon for special correspondent Linda Deutsch, celebrating her 40 years with the wire service. She signed on in 1967 to... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted January 8, 2007 9:56 PM
Jay Levin founded the LA Weekly more than 25 years ago. Lately he has been busy trying to recruit staff and writers around Los Angeles for a new magazine: RealTalk... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted January 8, 2007 1:37 PM
Can't remember the last time we posted so much on the weekend, including Mark Lacter's exclusive memo from LAT publisher David Hiller on rethinking the Times website. The menu for... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted January 8, 2007 1:16 AM
Slate's Jack Shafer identifies the Los Angeles Times newsroom stars he says are vulnerable to poaching by other media outlets if the Tribune-induced fear and loathing doesn't settle down soon.... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted January 6, 2007 10:02 AM
Not everyone gets or appreciates Gustavo Arellano's satirical and increasingly popular ¡Ask a Mexican! column in OC Weekly. Now reading it can be dangerous to a person's livelihood, at least... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted January 5, 2007 2:51 PM
Noted, since it hasn't been included in the mentions here of Jim Lampley's arrest: "I am innocent of the charge of domestic abuse that has been leveled against me and... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted January 5, 2007 12:09 PM
Mayor Villaraigosa picks up another tribute from People en español, a strange phone call to Channel 2 about Jim Lampley's arrest, Pellicano's day in court and a flock of other... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted January 5, 2007 1:23 AM
Michael Goodwin was convicted of murdering his former business partner, Mickey Thompson, and the racing legend's wife in 1988. Prosecutors will not seek the death penalty. CBS2 Alleged details... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted January 4, 2007 3:50 PM
By last night's web stats run, more than 2,200 visitors had found their way to LA Observed by searching on Google for Stephanie Edwards. That's in just the first three... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted January 4, 2007 9:30 AM
Ax falls at Channel 2/9: veteran reporter Paul Dandridge has been taken off the bio page, though his blog remains — last updated in August. Newsroom sources say that Inland... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted January 3, 2007 5:20 PM
Judith Regan's upcoming fight for her honor with Rupert Murdoch's empire inspires the NYT's Sharon Waxman to muse on Hollywood court battles of yore: think Bette Davis meets Joan Crawford... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted January 2, 2007 4:36 PM
Karen Grigsby Bates, who interviewed me last year for NPR's "Day to Day," gets the Q-and-A treatment from Kate Coe at Mediabistro.com. Bates is an L.A. correspondent for the show... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted January 2, 2007 2:03 PM
Ron Fineman lost his battle with colon cancer today. The founder of the television news website Ron Fineman's On the Record was taken off his respirator Dec. 21 and told... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted December 30, 2006 6:52 PM
Former LA Weekly-ians Charles Rappleye and Tulsa Kinney have reappeared as publisher and editor, respectively, of Artillery, a new Los Angeles-based art magazine distributed mostly in galleries here and in... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted December 30, 2006 2:25 AM
The webmaster at PR industry blog Strumpette has posted a fake AP dispatch announcing that the blog's creator, the pseudonymous Amanda Chapel, suffered broken bones and a concussion in a... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted December 29, 2006 10:59 AM
Kim Masters writes at Slate that David Geffen is the wrong man to run the L.A. Times, taking issue with the position voiced earlier this month by Times Hollywood writers... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted December 29, 2006 10:06 AM
Shades of Brown in the LA Weekly was Daniel Hernandez's take on the relationship between the Times (his former employer) and its Latino staffers as well as the city's largest... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted December 28, 2006 11:30 PM
Judge Dzintra Janavs bitch slapped Mayor Villaraigosa over his LAUSD compromise, David Zahniser writes in the LA Weekly. Greg Stacy found out the hard way, after 600 weeks writing... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted December 28, 2006 6:02 PM
Rebecca Dana, a 2004 graduate of Yale, has been covering television for the New York Observer. At the New York Times she will carve out a new beat in the... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted December 28, 2006 11:30 AM
Stephanie Edwards tells the Pasadena Star-News that she took the hint and declined KTLA's offer to reprise her limited role in KTLA's Rose Parade coverage. According to Edwards, it was... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted December 28, 2006 10:45 AM
Mary Kaye Schilling, the former executive editor of Entertainment Weekly, gets the helm of the LAT's Calendar Weekend section. She used to be the magazine's Los Angeles bureau chief. Looks... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted December 27, 2006 4:52 PM
Longtime local news figure Ross Becker is leaving NBC4 and the on-hiatus daytime show he anchored, The Local Story, for an anchor slot at KTVX, the ABC-affiliated Channel 4... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted December 26, 2006 2:10 AM
KTLA's press release tries to make the upcoming coverage of the Rose Parade sound special: "Bob Eubanks and Michaela Pereira will be back as co-hosts of the Rose Parade....Grand Marshal... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted December 23, 2006 2:20 PM
John Balzar, one of the last ties to the L.A. Times' run as an exemplar of the literary newspaper journalism form, has given his notice and will move to Washington... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted December 22, 2006 2:26 PM
Not much of a hiatus today, it appears — but I promise to make up for it tomorrow. Peace in our time: the city and the Engineers and Architects Association... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted December 20, 2006 5:30 PM
Alissa Rubin, who just last September was given the Paris bureau chief slot for the L.A. Times, succumbed to the lure of the New York Times. She's going back to... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted December 20, 2006 2:10 PM
LARadio.com reports that Ron Fineman, the former TV reporter and producer whose On the Record is one of the original Los Angeles media websites, is near death at Henry Mayo... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted December 20, 2006 1:10 PM
Dean Baquet's defense of news values against the bean counters — and his November ouster from the LAT — has won him the New York Observer's fourth annual Media Mensch... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted December 20, 2006 9:30 AM
In July, Ryan A. Jimenez left the staff of the Geffen Playhouse to become press secretary for Maria Shriver in Sacramento. He abruptly departed that job last week, says the... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted December 20, 2006 1:06 AM
Catching up with the fallout from KFI shouter Bill Handel's tirade on Jamie White's morning show last Friday, LARadio.com says that Handel will sit out a one-week suspension when he... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted December 18, 2006 11:54 AM
An "offensive" phone call to a HarperCollins attorney on Friday preceded Judith Regan's sudden firing, Sunday's Los Angeles Times says citing two unnamed but "highly placed corporate sources." Regan was... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted December 17, 2006 3:32 PM
Saturday's Daily Breeze ran this photo of Dean Singleton addressing the staff, along with a main story about the day's big news in the South Bay. Including the Breeze within... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted December 17, 2006 12:40 AM
Judith Regan, publisher of the terminated O.J. Simpson book, was abruptly fired tonight by HarperCollins. The company announced the dismissal, “effective immediately,” in a news release issued about 7 p.m.... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted December 15, 2006 8:32 PM
Radio hype or actual anger allowed to get on their air? Never can tell with KFI. Morning angry man Bill Handel did not like that 98.7's Jamie White shooed his... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted December 15, 2006 11:39 AM
Harvey Levin, who covered the O.J. Simpson legal circus for CBS 2, has some observations over at TMZ.com on Brian (Kato) Kaelin, who lived in a guest house on Simpson's... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted December 15, 2006 12:42 AM
Hollywood Today calls itself a "newsmagazine, with attitude...we cover the world of entertainment in all its multimedia glory, from screens and stages large and small." The site has been active... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted December 15, 2006 12:29 AM
Hearst filed a legal document today that says it will buy the South Bay Daily Breeze from Copley, then sell the Breeze to Dean Singleton's MediaNews Group along with the... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted December 13, 2006 11:48 PM
Randy Alcorn, chief financial officer for the News-Press for 23 years, was escorted out of the building just before he could quit in exasperation with Wendy McCaw. Alcorn told his... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted December 13, 2006 1:57 PM
The author and screenwriter contributed a blog entry on Condoleezza Rice to the Huffington Post over the weekend that begins: I met Condoleezza Rice last weekend. She was much prettier... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted December 13, 2006 1:39 PM
L.A. journalist Mona Gable has stirred up a storm at the Huffington Post with a post reacting to her 16-year-old son receiving mail from the National Guard, the same week... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted December 12, 2006 11:34 PM
On today's New York Times op-ed page, USC Annenberg professor emeritus Murray Fromson for the first time discloses the source of his 1967 report for CBS that a top American... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted December 11, 2006 1:58 AM
They are refining the masthead titles at Variety. The winner seems to be Michael Speier (pictured), who has been named executive editor of news for Variety and Daily Variety. He... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted December 11, 2006 1:52 AM
There's already been an item today about David Geffen and the L.A. Times, but this is about his home on Carbon Beach in Malibu. The mogul goes to the Coastal... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted December 8, 2006 5:25 PM
There will be a new lineup of Los Angeles Times editors managing coverage of the next presidential race. The desk will be bicoastal: one editor in Washington, one here in... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted December 8, 2006 3:51 PM
Stromme died yesterday of cancer at the age of 59. She wrote the Echo Park novel Joe's Word and the Underground Gardener column for the old L.A. Alternative Press. Just... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted December 8, 2006 2:26 PM
Hollywood Reporter lays off five more, including executive editor Peter Pryor, Fishbowl LA and Nikki Finke say. Earlier in the week editorial director Howard Burns got the axe. (I'm... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted December 7, 2006 4:50 PM
Barbara Bogaev is out as co-host of the American Public Media program heard here on KPCC. It sounds as if a number of Los Angeles producers for "Weekend America" (and... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted December 5, 2006 6:08 PM
No, Michael Richards did not attend a celebrity roast for Whoopi Goldberg in blackface. Nor did he pour a bottle of Aunt Jemima syrup over Whoopi's head. That was satire... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted December 5, 2006 3:37 PM
New religion and higher education reporters, a philanthropy beat, a reporter for the South Bay and Long Beach and Jeff Rabin moves off the city ethics and developer influence beat.... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted December 5, 2006 10:14 AM
William Morris has sent along the press release on former Villaraigosa deputy Cecile Ablack, who we told you Friday was going Hollywood. The flackage — which notes that Chris Petrikin,... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted December 4, 2006 6:48 PM
Reports in the newsroom are that Howard Burns, editorial director of The Hollywood Reporter, will leave the job tomorrow. A call to him was transferred to spokeswoman Linda Miller, who... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted December 4, 2006 3:32 PM
Daily Trojan saga comes to a head: Jeremy Beecher, an ally of editor-in-exile Zach Fox, was elected editor for the spring, apparently with the understanding that he will run... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted December 1, 2006 4:45 PM
Eli Broad didn't talk specifics about his bid with Ron Burkle to buy the Los Angeles Times, but in a wide-ranging interview circulated today by the Associated Press he said... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted November 30, 2006 10:51 PM
Ellen Barry of the Los Angeles Times' New York bureau confirmed for The Media Mob that she is switching to the NYT. She'll start her New York Times career in... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted November 30, 2006 10:31 PM
The Daily News' Mariel Garza emails that she was more than a bit surprised to read LAPD watch commander Vincent Neglia suggest that she advised her students to be arrested... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted November 28, 2006 2:20 PM
In a column at Slate, Michael Kinsley remembers his shock when a Washington colleague put up a personal website for the first time. Now it all makes sense, he writes:... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted November 28, 2006 1:57 AM
The L.A. chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists has chosen its four "distinguished journalists" for the year. To be honored at a banquet in the spring are: * George... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted November 27, 2006 7:43 PM
Bebe Moore Campbell, a best-selling novelist "known for her empathetic treatment of the difficult, intertwined and occasionally surprising relationship between the races," has died at home in Los Angeles, the... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted November 27, 2006 6:21 PM
Inventing Lonelygirl15: Wired's December issue goes inside the Los Angeles apartment where the wildly popular web tale of Bree and Danny was hatched and taped. Writer Joshua Davis met creator... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted November 27, 2006 2:29 AM
Caitlin Flanagan told the New York Observer a year ago that "You’d never, never, never leave The New Yorker," but now she has. Flanagan has left the magazine's staff to... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted November 22, 2006 9:22 AM
Brian Stelter is 21, attends Towson University near Baltimore, and through his blog has the ear of just about everyone who matters in television news. Now he also has a... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted November 21, 2006 7:53 PM
Lennie LaGuire has clearly emerged as a favorite of Times features czar John Montorio. Fifteen months ago he put her in charge of Daily Calendar, with the awkward title of... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted November 21, 2006 3:53 PM
L.A. Times op-ed and Current editor Nick Goldberg e-mailed to elaborate on his terse response to historian Mike Davis in yesterday's post, and also to correct my notion that Davis... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted November 21, 2006 12:05 PM
The Daily News' new columnist, writer of the weekend piece about Mayor Villaraigosa's childhood and personal exaggerations, has been around Los Angeles journalism since he landed a column at the... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted November 21, 2006 2:07 AM
Rupert Murdoch pulls the plug on the Judith Regan book and the Fox TV special. "We are sorry for any pain that his has caused the families of Ron Goldman... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted November 20, 2006 12:59 PM
They bill Anthony Pellicano's scribbles as a Web exclusive guest column, but it's really a pick-up from a book of legal writing on the concept of reasonable doubt. The imprisoned... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted November 20, 2006 1:35 AM
Record temps: Thermometers rose over ninety in many parts of Los Angeles on Sunday. Channel 2 weatherman Johnny Mountain calls it "extreme heat," I just call it very nice for... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted November 19, 2006 9:32 PM
This month's American Journalism Review reconstructs the abrupt decline of the Santa Barbara News-Press under owner Wendy McCaw and her boyfriend, now calling himself the Baron Arthur von Wiesenberger but... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted November 17, 2006 11:16 AM
Columnist Mariel Garza's recent column about the LAPD prompted Chief William Bratton to reply on the department news and PR blog. Her column described the trouble Garza's Cal State Northridge... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted November 16, 2006 6:39 PM
Jason Calacanis made a ton of money selling Santa Monica-based Weblogs, Inc. to AOL and for the past year has been working there and running Netscape. Yesterday his mentor at... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted November 16, 2006 4:06 PM
New logo, typeface, departments and architecture to the magazine, which celebrates 45 years in December. It's the Power Issue, hitting newstands now with pieces by me on Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa,... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted November 15, 2006 2:15 PM
The Orange County Register has found its replacement for Mark Katches, who announced in September that he was leaving his post as Senior Team Leader/Watchdog Journalism — and leaving the... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted November 14, 2006 11:36 PM
If you want to be technical, The Knife is "a blog about restaurants favored by the entertainment industry. Monday through Thursday, The Knife is where to eat and drink in... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted November 14, 2006 1:05 PM
Locals did darn well in the first awarding of these journalism prizes. The banquet is tonight in Washington, D.C. Selected winners: * Dennis Romero, staff writer at Tu Ciudad, best... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted November 14, 2006 12:36 AM
Legendary Texas journalist Molly Ivins, in Editor & Publisher via Yahoo. What may ultimately happen, she believes, is that "we settle into some form of prestige papers, a bit like... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted November 13, 2006 4:18 PM
Bill Boyarsky, the newest LA Observed contributor, used to be city editor of the Los Angeles Times, wrote a local column called "The Spin" for many years, and created the... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted November 12, 2006 4:59 PM
Those sex charges against former FOX 11 reporter, KFI host and LAPD spokesman Rod Bernsen aren't going away. He was indicted Thursday on two federal felony counts of "abusive sexual... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted November 10, 2006 1:41 AM
The Times is all over the running story of its future. Along with a piece breaking the news that Tribune is offering KTLA to potential buyers, James Rainey reports that... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted November 10, 2006 12:58 AM
Former L.A Times and New York Times reporter Anita Busch, in an amendment this week to a civil suit, names onetime Hollywood power Michael Ovitz as one of the figures... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted November 9, 2006 10:12 PM
Longtime "60 Minutes" correspondent Ed Bradley died today of complications from leukemia. The first black White House correspondent for CBS News, he reported on the network's Sunday night news franchise... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted November 9, 2006 11:36 AM
Colen reviewed restaurants for Los Angeles magazine for 21 years during the era when the city and figures like Wolfgang Puck emerged as culinary forces. He also had been an... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted November 9, 2006 11:02 AM
Finally, some meaty if unattributed info out of the billionaires trying to buy the Los Angeles Times. LA Weekly columnist Nikki Finke has been sounding confident for months about her... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted November 9, 2006 5:20 AM
Here are the some of the best observations and news culled from the next-day coverage about the ouster of Dean Baquet as editor of the L.A. Times. Managing editors Doug... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted November 8, 2006 2:19 AM
Jamie Court, president of the Santa Monica-based Foundation For Taxpayer and Consumer Rights and a founder of ArnoldWatch.org, posts somewhat bizarrely that today's ouster of Dean Baquet "pulled a page... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted November 7, 2006 3:10 PM
Times publisher David Hiller just emailed the newsroom his version of this afternoon's events. Basically, he wanted his guy: From: Hiller, David Sent: Tuesday, November 07, 2006 2:40 PM Subject:... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted November 7, 2006 2:48 PM
Updated repeatedly with new information Times editor Dean Baquet "is stepping down under pressure from Tribune Company," the Wall Street Journal says in an online story citing "people familiar with... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted November 7, 2006 1:35 PM
David Willis returns this week to his day job as a reporter in the BBC bureau in Los Angeles, after a six-month sabbatical to try his hand at Hollywood. He... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted November 6, 2006 11:23 AM
Sharon Stone's appearance last week at the International Women's Media Foundation banquet in Beverly Hills. Stone presented the group's Courage in Journalism award to the mother of Christian Science Monitor... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted November 6, 2006 10:27 AM
Looks like Lloyd Grove isn't coming to the L.A. Times. A Liz Smith item in the New York Post says the gossip columnist has landed at Vanity Fair. The... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted November 5, 2006 5:19 PM
Jasper Johns' "Flag" hangs over a fireplace in Eli Broad's Brentwood home, we learn in Bob Colacello's profile of the art collector and would-be Los Angeles media mogul in the... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted November 3, 2006 4:27 PM
Friday's Times carries the obit on the paper's long-time and respected classical music reviewer, Daniel Cariaga, who died on Wednesday at age 71. His life path was not typical of... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted November 3, 2006 12:39 AM
The editor's office at the LA Weekly sent over this letter from Mike Lacey, executive editor of Village Voice Media, taking issue with my coverage (and with ex-Weeklyite Harold Meyerson)... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted November 2, 2006 1:44 PM
This is the Jackson Pollock painting that David Geffen has reportedly sold for $140 million — should I say that again? $140 million — to Mexican financier David Martinez. It's... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted November 2, 2006 12:18 PM
Yesterday's upheaval at the LA Weekly — first detailed here — sent observers of the paper and staffers buzzing into the night about what the future holds. At the afternoon... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted November 2, 2006 1:13 AM
Daniel Cariaga was the longtime classical music reviewer for the Los Angeles Times Calendar section. A note sent to the staff this afternoon said that he had been hospitalized with... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted November 1, 2006 6:58 PM
News editor Alan Mittelstaedt is out and controversial columnist Jill Stewart is coming in to edit local news coverage. Mittelstaedt pushed the recent story on Miguel Contreras's death and has... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted November 1, 2006 5:40 PM
Publisher Tracy Rafter (as rumored) is one of the 21 positions to be eliminated, along with three department heads and four editorial employees. They're calling it part of a restructuring... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted October 30, 2006 3:23 PM
The unraveling of the Santa Barbara News-Press continues. The paper has fired 21-year veteran reporter Melinda Burns, one of the few journalists to stay on after the Wendy McCaw meltdown,... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted October 30, 2006 2:26 PM
Sheigh Crabtree has left The Hollywood Reporter's entertainment technology beat to try her hand at other things, one of them being the new How'd They Do That column in the... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted October 30, 2006 12:35 PM
Franklin Avenue's Mike and Maria turn up on HGTV's "What is My House Worth?" LAist wants Lakers and Clippers bloggers. Dawn at Griffith Observatory. Crazy Wendy at the Santa... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted October 26, 2006 6:08 PM
The number of college graduates who read the L.A. Times is closer to the 42% that Times columnist Tim Rutten claimed in his churlish snappish response, not the 19% that... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted October 26, 2006 2:53 PM
LA Weekly news editor Alan Mittelstaedt was mentioned only obliquely in departed columnist Harold Meyerson's email blast last night. Mittelstaedt writes the new L.A. Sniper column, which Meyerson called a... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted October 26, 2006 10:24 AM
I didn't set out to post two Harold Meyerson items in a row, or three LA Weekly items. News is unpredictable, though, and they are all related. Meyerson, the newly... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted October 25, 2006 11:55 PM
John Andrews is leaving as West Coast editor and bureau chief here of The Economist. He's heading home after a career with the magazine that has taken him to posts... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted October 24, 2006 12:34 PM
Dan Baum goes along for the ride with L.A.'s star Spanish-language radio deejay, Renán Almendárez Coello, for last week's New Yorker (with audio at the magazine's website.) Almendárez’s morning show,... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted October 24, 2006 9:59 AM
Ross Becker's "fluid format" half-hour news show "The Local Story" ran most of the summer on KNBC, then dropped back into a new life as a web-only production. Well, after... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted October 23, 2006 2:45 PM
Otis Chandler's classic car collection brought more than $36 million at Saturday's auction. Video screens showed bids in dollars, British pounds, euros, Swiss francs and Japanese yen. The Screen... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted October 22, 2006 11:55 AM
Los Angeles magazine's RJ Smith takes notice of David Zahniser's run of noteworthy stories in the LA Weekly (and previously in the Daily Breeze) and pronounces him the top beat... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted October 20, 2006 1:05 AM
As I thought in today's Morning Buzz, the Z File is a new column label in the LA Weekly for David Zahniser. Also new in today's issue is L.A. Sniper,... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted October 19, 2006 10:09 AM
Jacob Soboroff just got a new HD video camera and went over to the Cornfield state park downtown yesterday to try it out. Walking the grounds he saw Huell Howser,... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted October 18, 2006 5:39 PM
Former L.A. Times reporter Soraya Sarhaddi Nelson has been reporting on Sacramento and politics for the Orange County Register for the last little while, but she may need to pick... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted October 18, 2006 1:56 PM
Is the ex-New York Daily News gossip columnist about to pop up as the long-awaited in-house gossip for the L.A. Times? I don't know, but intriguing stars are aligned. Grove... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted October 16, 2006 10:16 PM
Bill Marimow had been the editor of the Baltimore Sun and in 2004 was brought in to head National Public Radio's news operation, with the idea that he would give... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted October 13, 2006 12:15 PM
PEN Center USA, based here, announced its annual awards for books, journalism, poetry and drama by writers living in the West. In addition to the winners below, the finalists in... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted October 12, 2006 6:11 PM
Former Fox 11 reporter and KFI talk host Rod Bernsen appeared in federal court today and was ordered released on $850,000 bail. He has a November 13 court date for... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted October 10, 2006 5:59 PM
Catherine Elsworth, the Daily Telegraph's woman in L.A., has relocated to New York for a few weeks in part to "remind myself what proper city living is all about." She... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted October 10, 2006 3:05 PM
A newsroom source says the staff will be gathered shortly to be told that The Hollywood Reporter publisher Tony Uphoff is out and will be replaced by someone from Billboard.... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted October 10, 2006 2:03 PM
Former Fox 11 reporter and KFI fill-in host (as well as retired LAPD sergeant) Rod Bernsen will be charged in federal court Tuesday in connection with "an investigation into alleged... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted October 9, 2006 8:56 PM
George Clooney's photo spread in the November issue of Vanity Fair was shot in the garden of the late newspaper matriarch Dorothy Chandler's home, Los Tiempos, at Fifth and Lorraine... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted October 9, 2006 4:55 PM
If Los Angeles has a media gulch it's the stretch of Wilshire Boulevard from the old Carnation headquarters — where the Hollywood Reporter and Billboard are located — west into... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted October 9, 2006 12:05 PM
In Sunday's LAT, West magazine staff writer Lynell George revisits the large swath of traditional Los Angeles neighborhoods that came to be lumped together as South-Central after they turned African... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted October 8, 2006 1:41 PM
"Being a TV host is the least of what I do," the Crenshaw district-based media force tells Patrick Goldstein in Sunday's LAT Calendar. The smooth-talking 42-year-old journalist and social activist... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted October 2, 2006 10:25 AM
There's a flurry of new jobs and ex-jobs the last couple of days. (See Friday.) The latest involve a couple of alums of the Wall Street Journal's Los Angeles bureau.... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted October 1, 2006 2:26 PM
Time to catch up on some media moves. Already told you this week about the demise of the Los Angeles Alternative, Harold Meyerson leaving the LA Weekly, and Tony Castro... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted September 29, 2006 6:33 PM
Today's New York Times carries a man-in-the-news on LAT publisher Jeffrey Johnson, who "seemed to many Los Angeles Times employees to transform himself as dramatically as Clark Kent does when... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted September 28, 2006 11:41 AM
Harold Meyerson, the LA Weekly fixture [* keep reading...] who was editor of The American Prospect in 2001-2, is coming back as acting executive editor of TAP. Incumbent Michael Tomasky... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted September 27, 2006 2:16 PM
Ralph Story was a big deal on local television in the 1960s and 70s. He was the features reporter for "The Big News" on Channel 2 when the hour-long news... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted September 26, 2006 10:29 PM
Variety Weekend is also calling it quits. The inside pages tried to draw in readers and advertisers with lifestyle coverage of and for the Hollywood entertainment community: passions and diversions... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted September 26, 2006 3:27 PM
It must be let's talk about L.A. month at the blog of the 92nd Street Y in Manhattan. Last week Sydney Pollack answered questions from Andrew Krucoff, now it's Arianna... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted September 25, 2006 9:11 AM
Mark Katches, Senior Team Leader/Watchdog Journalism for the Orange County Register — talk to them about the titles, not me — leaves Oct. 31 to be assistant managing editor for... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted September 16, 2006 12:33 PM
Celebrity gossip Marc Malkin is taking his act from The Insider to E! Online. He will write the daily Planet Gossip column to launch in October and co-host a weekly... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted September 14, 2006 12:24 PM
Yes, I'm tired of Black Dahlia hype already too. But this is different. As part of a BD package in this week's L.A. Independent, editor Tony Castro runs the accompanying... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted September 13, 2006 10:33 PM
Along with the changes made by NPR at "News and Notes" reported here yesterday, Nicole Childers becomes Executive Producer and the show takes on more of a multimedia flavor. Memo... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted September 13, 2006 9:56 AM
Eighteen members of the big and notorious 18th Street Gang were indicted on federal charges of "selling" streets in Koreatown and the MacArthur Park district to drug dealers. The ring... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted September 12, 2006 3:05 PM
The guest list for Sunday's NBC4 Newsconference might seem like a non sequitur, but there is a theme to it: "courage, fearlessness and leadership" for the fifth anniversary of the... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted September 8, 2006 2:28 PM
Forget the odd looking baby. Vanity Fair's October issue has the doubled-in-size VF 100, successor to the annual New Establishment roster. Rupert Murdoch tops the list, followed by Google founders... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted September 8, 2006 9:18 AM
Don't ever engage Times reporter Kurt Streeter in a friendly tennis match. He trained as a teenager with 14-year-old Andre Agassi, and made the future champion cry. He writes in... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted September 6, 2006 1:45 AM
A New Republic piece critical of the County Human Relations Commission for honoring Maher Hathout of the Muslim Public Affairs Council has fueled opposition from the American Jewish Committee,... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted September 5, 2006 5:45 PM
Arianna Huffington's new book, On Becoming Fearless...in Love, Work and Life, has morphed instantly into a new feature section at the Huffington Post: "...devoted to promoting fearlessness in all aspects... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted September 5, 2006 10:54 AM
Nita Lelyveld gets the nod, replacing Washington-bound editor John Hoeffel. She became an editor in Metro last year. Yes, she is the offspring of retired New York Times executive editor... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted September 5, 2006 2:30 AM
Robert Christgau, whose own website uses the descriptor Dean of American rock critics, was fired in a putsch of Village Voice staffers. He has covered the music scene since 1967... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted August 31, 2006 4:46 PM
T. Christian Miller of the Los Angeles Times Washington bureau shows up on the blog at the Huffington Post with an entry about the subject of his new book, Blood... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted August 31, 2006 12:44 PM
Kirk Douglas says that Let's Face It will be the last of his nine books. The announcement at Publishers Lunch calls it a "humorous and poignant examination of moments in... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted August 30, 2006 8:48 AM
TVNewswer caught CBS giving Katie Couric a little help to look thinner. Compare her first official network photo at this year's TV upfronts from May (left) and the slimmer version... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted August 29, 2006 11:26 PM
It was forty years ago this month that Peter Bart wrote a positive story in the New York Times about a young Hollywood producer, Robert Evans. Bart later went to... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted August 29, 2006 6:45 PM
The young reporter (he's 25) who left the Los Angeles Times this year for the LA Weekly (and did a well-received profile of Gustavo Arellano and took heat for his... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted August 28, 2006 2:29 PM
Don Woutat doesn't stay long in any job at the Los Angeles Times. But he really didn't stay long as the Times' new correspondent in Las Vegas. He was announced... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted August 28, 2006 1:48 PM
Adam Carolla sidekick and occasional L.A. Times contributor Teresa Strasser elaborates in her Jewish Journal Singles column about a recent stormy break-up — which I guess makes her single again,... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted August 25, 2006 11:52 AM
David LoCicero covered the Korean War, shot sports for Associated Press and worked at the Herald Examiner for 7½ years until 1973. He retired in 1983 as chief photographer for... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted August 23, 2006 4:16 PM
Raphael died in her sleep last Saturday in a hospice in Palm Desert, following what Todd Everett calls "a long and excruciating illness." She was a contributor in the early... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted August 18, 2006 10:59 AM
The Nguoi Viet Daily News in Orange County is the largest Vietnamese daily newspaper in the nation. Do started the paper in his Garden Grove garage as a four-page weekly... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted August 18, 2006 7:15 AM
After several weeks as resident guests, and some time before that as anonymous visiting bloggers, Mayrav Saar and Kate Coe are official at Fishbowl LA. Mayrav is a former Orange... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted August 17, 2006 12:23 PM
In my Politics piece this month for Los Angeles magazine, while talking about South L.A. black politics post-Yvonne Burke I observe that reporters typically resist assignments at the county Hall... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted August 16, 2006 1:23 PM
Senior editor Monika Bauerlein and deputy editor Clara Jeffery will take over the San Francisco-based magazine. City Pages has details via Romenesko.... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted August 16, 2006 10:57 AM
David Blum takes over at the Village Voice Sept. 12. He is a New York media veteran. Blum began at the Wall Street Journal in 1979, jumped to Esquire then... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted August 14, 2006 1:03 PM
Actor-screenwriter Dan Futterman will play the part of Daniel Pearl in the upcoming movie based on Mariane Pearl's book, according to the Washington Post's Reliable Source column. When it became... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted August 14, 2006 11:29 AM
Nine of the journalists who resigned from the Santa Barbara News-Press rather than go along with the questionable decrees of owner Wendy McCaw will receive an Ethics in Journalism tribute... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted August 11, 2006 12:08 PM
Charles Johnson of the Los Angeles-based war blog Little Green Footballs and co-founder of Pajamas Media got most of the praise due the blogosphere for uncovering the fake documents about... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted August 9, 2006 11:46 AM
Newsy day over at Mark Lacter's daily business blog. He posted on the troubling questions over Pixar's stock options, Wonder Bread's product placement in Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted August 8, 2006 9:24 PM
The topic of Gary Webb and his treatment within the journalism world remains divisive. People I respect fall on both sides: that he was a courageous investigative digger who got... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted August 8, 2006 1:46 PM
The Los Angeles Daily Journal columnist died over the weekend after an eight-year battle with prostate cancer. He had previously worked as a feature writer at the Los Angeles Times.... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted August 7, 2006 10:56 AM
Jack Miles' essay asking if Lebanon is Israel's Iraq — and whether the war on Hezbollah is a miscalculation that might leave Israel worse off — would not be so... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted August 4, 2006 2:20 PM
Until Mel Gibson's real arrest report leaked out, Steve Whitmore was not the most visible of law enforcement media handlers. Cindy Beavers with the San Bernardino County sheriff's and that... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted August 2, 2006 11:11 PM
First thing Amy Wilentz did when she moved to Los Angeles with her husband, Nick Goldberg — op-ed editor at the LAT — was to write a book about California... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted August 2, 2006 9:43 AM
Author Mariane Pearl describes getting behind the wheel in the NYT's New York Observed column [editor's note: harrumph] last Sunday. It's what prompted her to start driving that got my... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted July 27, 2006 9:44 PM
Former CityBeat columnist Erik Himmelsbach has taken his Valley Boy persona to the blogopshere. In his second post, he talks about the book he is writing about legendary Los Angeles... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted July 26, 2006 11:04 PM
The KCRW host returns to court August 15 to be sentenced on a cocaine possession charge, the only prosecution to come out of his June 6 arrest on suspicion of... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted July 25, 2006 5:00 PM
Santa Barbara News-Press owner and co-publisher Wendy McCaw delivered another missive to readers today claiming that she's the victim in the explosion of upset over her journalism ethics. She says... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted July 25, 2006 4:25 PM
William Dean Singleton, owner of the Daily News and several other local papers through his MediaNews Group, will take over as chairman of Associated Press next May. Does this mean... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted July 20, 2006 12:04 PM
The Hollywood Reporter's Ray Richmond generously blogs for newbies his ten unwritten rules for getting along at the Television Critics Association's group grope in Pasadena without offending your competitors, colleagues... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted July 19, 2006 9:28 AM
Furillo was the sports editor of the late Herald Examiner, wrote his column "The Steam Room" there for many years, and served a couple of stints as a radio sports... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted July 18, 2006 5:46 PM
Things seem kind of cozy down in the second city. The newly elected mayor of Long Beach, Bob Foster, will be "officially sworn in" today by the columnist for the... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted July 18, 2006 9:26 AM
She has been the editor in charge of entertainment coverage for the Los Angeles Times business section since last year, after returning from Los Angeles magazine in 2004. She will... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted July 17, 2006 3:18 PM
Bob Tur of Los Angeles News Service sued YouTube in federal court for letting users post copyrighted video, including his often-aired aerial footage of trucker Reginald Denny being beaten senseless... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted July 17, 2006 2:15 PM
In addition to running alt weekly ads that brag she's the dopest attorney in Los Angeles, criminal defense lawyer Allison Margolin has taken up blogging on the site of the... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted July 16, 2006 3:46 PM
Well maybe you will, but it's an interview with the indefatigable, if media shy, Romenesko himself in Hyperlink magazine at Northwestern’s Medill School of Journalism. He's 52 and lives in... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted July 13, 2006 6:55 PM
Orange County Register reporter Valeria Godines is in the midst of a courageous five-part series disclosing her personal battle with bipolar disorder. Brainstorm opens on the day in 2004 when... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted July 11, 2006 4:21 PM
Lawyer Helen Zukin is City Attorney Rocky Delgadillo's newest appointee to the City Ethics Commission. Zukin, a temporary judge in the Los Angeles County Superior Court system, previously chaired the... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted July 10, 2006 4:12 PM
Channel 4 unveils "The Local Story: Summer Edition" at 3 pm., with L.A. news veteran Ross Becker anchoring. Toni Guinyard, formerly of KCET's "Life & Times" and KCAL, is the... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted July 10, 2006 11:35 AM
Two of the contributors at Blogging.la are getting married this weekend — and not to each other.... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted July 5, 2006 11:23 AM
When LA Weekly lifestyle editor and Style Council blogger Linda Immediato lost her Venice home suddenly, she looked around and came up empty. No place she could afford would let... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted July 5, 2006 3:32 AM
Daily Telegraph correspondent Catherine Elsworth returned to her post in West Hollywood from a trip home to the U.K. with a serious jones for David Beckham and England's World Cup... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted June 29, 2006 3:25 PM
Yesterday's Morning Buzz mentioned FishbowlLA's search for a staffer to replace the "guest blogger" who has been holding the fort. Later in the day, this week's guest blogger, one of... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted June 29, 2006 9:45 AM
Yesterday's almost entirely positive media story on Nikki Finke gets another day in the news, thanks to her insistence that the piece by Jon Friedman of Marketwatch was "misogynist" and... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted June 29, 2006 9:40 AM
The Daily News' Mariel Garza blogs about the physical effects of trading her car for the bus this month. I have two blisters on my left foot -- one on... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted June 29, 2006 9:36 AM
Marketwatch media columnist Jon Friedman got columnist-blogger Nikki Finke to come out to lunchdinner with him in Santa Monica and calls her "a rarity at a time when many entertainment... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted June 28, 2006 12:43 PM
Marilyn W. Thompson becomes the national investigative editor, based in Washington, on September 1. She is currently editor and vice president of the Lexington (Ky.) Herald-Leader and had been assistant... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted June 28, 2006 11:33 AM
KCRW music host Chris Douridas will NOT be charged with kidnapping or a sex crime in connection with his arrest on suspicion of drugging a 14-year-old girl at Santa Monica's... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted June 26, 2006 3:35 PM
Following the news in this morning's Wall Street Journal (and in the Morning Buzz), Rafat Ali makes announcements about his deal for financing at paidContent.org. The site based here covers... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted June 26, 2006 11:42 AM
Last night at the Biltmore the L.A. Press Club bestowed its awards for the year. Selected winners: Journalists of the Year: Barbara Demick, Los Angeles Times Anat Rubin, Los Angeles... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted June 25, 2006 11:45 AM
• It took a shot from a Taser to end a pursuit and traffic-snarling standoff on the westbound San Bernardino Freeway in Baldwin Park. • Michael Kinsley will join the... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted June 23, 2006 4:56 PM
Two items: Josiah Beeman, the former aide to San Francisco politicians and Ambassador to New Zealand and Western Samoa for President Clinton, died at age 70. He ran three Jerry... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted June 23, 2006 3:39 PM
On KPCC right now, Patt Morrison has on Times Washington bureau chief Doyle McManus talking about their paper's decision to run this story disclosing secret U.S. government tracking of banking... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted June 23, 2006 2:13 PM
Noam Levey was ensconced as a City Hall reporter for the Los Angeles Times until becoming an item with Leslie Pollner of Councilwoman Wendy Greuel's staff. Last October he moved... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted June 22, 2006 12:22 PM
Author, Emmy nominee and longtime LAT columnist Al Martinez is giving his literary archive to the Huntington Library. The library will fete him Thursday at 7:30 pm when he will... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted June 21, 2006 11:49 AM
The OC Weekly's Gustavo Arellano has caught a media wave with his Q-and-A column. There was the book deal, now an appearance on Comedy Central. He blogs that "Colbert is... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted June 21, 2006 11:23 AM
Well I lied; my desk is anything but clear. Here are some final news notes from the day though. Have a good weekend: • The Times replies to this morning's... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted June 16, 2006 3:53 PM
The longtime producer of Lakers broadcasts became a household name in Los Angeles through mentions on the air by Chick Hearn. She has been let go, but the two sports... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted June 16, 2006 11:34 AM
Britney Spears (of the Malibu Spears-Federlines) has shown interest in having her baby in Namibia too, so she can "avoid the media glare" just like Brad and Angelina.... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted June 16, 2006 11:14 AM
MSNBC is getting a divorce from the Connie Chung-Maury Povich team. The Saturday chat experiment "Weekends with Connie and Maury" didn't work out and will come to a merciful end... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted June 16, 2006 10:52 AM
Gawker hears a bit more detail about what soured Erik Wemple on the job of running the Village Voice under Mike Lacey and the New Timesniks. Yesterday, you might remember,... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted June 16, 2006 10:21 AM
After two weeks of riding the MTA, Daily News columnist and editorial writer Mariel Garza blogs that she drove her car. "I need to drive for work," I told myself.... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted June 16, 2006 9:46 AM
Not that folks at the LA Weekly should be alarmed or anything, but once Erik Wemple got to the Village Voice he decided he didn't want to be editor after... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted June 15, 2006 5:45 PM
I've lost count of how many departures from the Los Angeles Business Journal have been recorded on LA Observed. The latest turnover should get more attention than most. Andy Fixmer,... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted June 13, 2006 10:11 PM
• Warren Olney devotes tonight's "Which Way, L.A.?" on KCRW to the South Central Community Gardens evictions. Guests include Daniel Hernandez of the LA Weekly, Robert Gottlieb of Occidental College,... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted June 13, 2006 4:56 PM
Kate Aurthur has been writing for Calendar, Vanity Fair, Slate and the New York Times. Her father Robert Alan Aurthur was a producer and writer of All that Jazz and... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted June 8, 2006 1:18 PM
The Livingston Awards for Young Journalists bestow $10,000 each on three journos under age 35, judged by a panel that includes Dean Baquet of the Los Angeles Times, Tom Brokaw... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted June 6, 2006 11:56 AM
Some of you may remember the New Year's thread when KTLA dumped longtime Rose Parade host Stephanie Edwards out in the rain and gave Michaela Pereira her old seat in... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted June 5, 2006 11:16 PM
Add Mariel Garza to the corps of Daily News staffers who are switching to the MTA. Her plan, disclosed on her blog, is to leave her car parked for the... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted June 1, 2006 9:22 PM
If you had a character in your novel or screenplay who is a female journalist in multi-cultural, coastal SoCal, tell me you wouldn't want to call her Gidget Fuentes. But... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted May 31, 2006 12:21 AM
Convicted editor-turned-Fleishman-Hillard executive Doug Dowie called no defense witnesses in his trial, but he sat down at the Pacific Dining Car for an exclusive interview with two of his former... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted May 30, 2006 3:28 AM
Daily News reporter Brent Hopkins garages his Mustang and rides the MTA for work two days a week, writes about it and gets his picture in today's paper (I assume)... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted May 30, 2006 3:02 AM
Nice LAT obituary today on the entrepreneur who painted the giant Felix Chevrolet sign downtown and who also came up with the KFC bucket and the Winchell's Donut and Denny's... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted May 26, 2006 2:23 AM
Not since the days of Jerry Dunphy has Channel 2's news topped the local ratings, but the station says that the new book out today fixes all that. From the... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted May 25, 2006 2:55 PM
An always helpful LA Observed correspondent was digging around on the LA Weekly website and stumbled upon this chronicle of the many writers and editors who have passed through the... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted May 23, 2006 12:57 AM
Guess it was true about Michael Hiltzik landing in Sports when the defrocked Los Angeles Times columnist-blogger returned from suspension. He wrote the Sunday feature on Clipper Elton Brand's "checkered... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted May 22, 2006 2:19 AM
♦ "There is no exact moment when the cultural epicenter of the country shifted from New York to Los Angeles," Manohla Dargis writes in the NYT, "just a series of... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted May 21, 2006 8:45 PM
As a sidebar to Time magazine's 100 people who shape our world, LAT op-ed columnist Joel Stein was given a spot on the Time website to post the Joel 100:... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted May 11, 2006 1:51 AM
Arianna Huffington told magazine editors in New York today that the Huffington Post makes money and within two months will spin off a sister site devoted to political satire. Even... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted May 9, 2006 10:09 AM
Does Anthony Pellicano want to bump off his former crony Alexander Proctor? The feds say yes. Dowie loses a round in court (but not that round), a City Hall communications... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted May 9, 2006 1:28 AM
♦ Answer: Mayor Villaraigosa, Sheriff Baca, Lakers owner Jerry Buss, Dodgers owner Frank McCourt, Magic Johnson, Natalie Cole, Johnny Grant and Councilman Tom LaBonge. Question: Who shows up when Channel... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted May 8, 2006 3:16 PM
Patric Kuh, the food critic at Los Angeles magazine, won for best magazine restaurant review or critique at the James Beard Foundation journalism awards in New York announced last night.... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted May 8, 2006 12:48 PM
Watching Antonio squirm—Dowie and Stodder too, and Dodgers fans, and the art experts at Cal State Northridge who OK'd some suspect Chinese antiquities. Plus a big win for the Mighty... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted May 4, 2006 1:51 AM
♦ Ken Bernstein, director of preservation issues for the Los Angeles Conservancy, moves to the city planning department as its first director of historic resources. (Press release) ♦ Laurie Pike,... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted May 3, 2006 5:36 PM
After nine years in print, the guidebook LA Bizarro "retains a devout cult following among the perverse and overly informed in Los Angeles," says Los Anjealous. The blog interviews co-author... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted May 3, 2006 9:35 AM
What, you might ask, does Arianna Huffington have in common with George W. Bush, Pope Benedict, Hugo Chavez and Matt Drudge? They are all among Time magazine's "100 people whose... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted May 2, 2006 2:24 AM
There's an extra-long Morning Buzz chock full of good stuff after you turn the page, catching up to the weekend. Of course the news of the day in Los Angeles... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted May 1, 2006 1:15 AM
Michael Hiltzik came up, of course, during my interview of Los Angeles Times Editor Dean Baquet on Sunday at the Times Festival of Books. He beat me to the punch,... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted May 1, 2006 1:07 AM
♦ L.A. Alternative covers the internal split over Monday's two immigration rallies. ♦ Daily News managing editor Melissa Lalum gave birth yesterday to a baby boy, Kelly Daniel Quinn. ♦... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted April 28, 2006 4:50 PM
No hug for Villaraigosa's school plan, social engineering at Hollywood and Vine, ten percent raise for cops, Fred Muir on the stand and journalists plan to meet tonight in Spanish.... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted April 27, 2006 2:13 AM
Best-selling mystery author Michael Connelly has pulled together a collection of articles from his days as a crime reporter for the Los Angeles Times and in Florida. Crime Beat: A... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted April 26, 2006 10:15 AM
David Jackson is leaving the KCAL-9 news after tomorrow, says Ron Fineman's On the Record, citing sources: "One source says they are told that this was Jackson's decision, exercising an... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted April 25, 2006 12:07 PM
Unhappy U.S. prosecutors, very happy (and affluent) L.A. firefighters and the Hiltzik story goes national—plus items on Villaraigosa, Dov Charney, Reggie Bush, Julia Louis-Dreyfus and much more. Click on the... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted April 24, 2006 2:02 AM
When Gay Talese reported his famous 1966 Esquire story "Frank Sinatra Has a Cold," his Beverly Hills hotel and restaurant tabs became legendary. Things have changed some. This week he's... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted April 23, 2006 11:56 PM
♦ Michael Hiltzik's previous gaffe involving invasion of colleagues' email privacy when he was stationed in the Times' Moscow bureau is now making the rounds of conservative bloggers delighted by... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted April 21, 2006 4:12 PM
Media reaction to the Hiltzik blog disclosure, a city budget with money for more cops, some awards, some obits and General Zinni is in town. Much more after the jump...... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted April 20, 2006 11:50 PM
Budget day for the mayor, bad news in the LAT for Cardinal Mahony, the LA Weekly profiles half of Los Angeles and Dean Singleton closes in on three Norcal newspapers.... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted April 20, 2006 1:49 AM
♦ Longtime L.A. radio reporter and anchor Hettie Lynne Hurtes is joining KPCC as mid-day anchor. Her film credits include roles in Terminator and Throw Momma from the Train. ♦... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted April 19, 2006 6:49 PM
The photo shows longtime Los Angeles journalist Frank Swertlow, on the case for People outside the Tom Cruise home recently—as reported at Gawker. The New York gossip site explains: "Sent... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted April 19, 2006 10:03 AM
For Times of London correspondent Chris Ayres, the term "management of Los Angeles International Airport" evokes a picture of William H. Macy pushing pencils in a cubicle. The airport's image... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted April 17, 2006 2:04 AM
The New Yorker's Caitlin Flanagan and her new book also get the treatment from Ella Taylor in this week's LA Weekly. Even women who can’t stand what Flanagan has to... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted April 14, 2006 12:10 AM
♦ Everyone following the Dodgers knows that reserve Cody Ross is primed to get the axe any hour now. So today he gets a start and slams a grand-slam homer—followed... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted April 13, 2006 4:59 PM
A light serving today since I'm driving back to L.A. from upstate, but you should turn the page anyway for some Devin Brown news, some media tidbits and a clutch... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted April 13, 2006 1:51 AM
Caitlin Flanagan perhaps "owes her success largely to a misogynistic media that loves a catfight...[but she] has so masterfully created a persona that it virtually guarantees literary celebrity," says the... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted April 12, 2006 11:01 PM
Antonio plans to impose a trash fee as the build-up to The Big Speech continues...Monique Moret names names in the Fleishman-Hillard trial: recognizable names...plus racism in the LAFD, black market... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted April 12, 2006 1:56 AM
RJ Smith wrote about rock music for the Village Voice and Spin before landing at the LA Weekly and, now, at Los Angeles magazine—where he is a senior editor and... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted April 11, 2006 11:28 PM
Light posting this weekend, but first... ♦ Michael Sonnenschein exits as co-editor of FishbowlLA. He bids farewell on the blog, and Claude Brodesser gives marching orders for the new regime.... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted April 7, 2006 5:57 PM
Downtown's largest property owner gets his name in the media again—this time coming into the sights of LA Weekly investigative reporter Jeffrey Anderson for razing a new, possibly toxic purchase... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted April 6, 2006 12:18 PM
It's official now that Kim Murphy is moving to the London bureau of the Los Angeles Times, replacing the newly departed John Daniszewski. Memo follows:... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted April 6, 2006 11:48 AM
According to the BBC's David Willis, Claude the security guard at the gate of The Prospect Studios in Hollywood was nice to the right casting director enough times for it... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted April 6, 2006 2:59 AM
Former Los Angeles Times staff writer Evan Maxwell left daily journalism two decades ago to fashion a successful career as a romance novelist with his wife Ann Maxwell. Now living... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted April 6, 2006 2:55 AM
Selective news judgment on Derek Lowe...mysterious illness of a local congresswoman...the mayor and the Chinese vice premier...plus yet another Hollywood media blog, an L.A. blog award, a bloggy romance and... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted April 6, 2006 2:42 AM
Some Pellicano news, the start of the Dowie-Stodder trial, a new blogger on the City Council and of course so much more—including a farewell in the Daily News newsroom, a... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted April 5, 2006 2:02 AM
For some Americans upset over illegal immigration it really is about respect for the law. And for some it's really about brown people (or a byline that suggests ethnicity.) Daily... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted April 5, 2006 12:07 AM
♦ David Poland of Movie City News takes 1,400 words to explain why his column The Hot Button is going down to three days a week. It's all about the... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted April 4, 2006 5:56 PM
♦ Deputy City Controller Ruben Gonzalez is leaving Laura Chick's staff after four years to be a vice president at Englander and Associates, the lobbying firm headed by Harvey Englander. Gonzalez... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted April 3, 2006 6:33 PM
Word on the street is that Seth Lubove is leaving the Los Angeles bureau of Forbes (after a lengthy stint there) to take over as L.A. bureau chief for Bloomberg... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted April 3, 2006 10:10 AM
♦ As expected, Mayor Villaraigosa did recommend Cecilia Estolano to be CEO of the Community Redvelopment Agency. Villaraigosa's CRA commissioners have to approve her, but they could just mail that in.... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted March 31, 2006 5:47 PM
♦ Deputy Maria Cecilia Rosa's death was homicide, not an accident, with robbery the apparent motive. The Sheriff's Department says her gun had not been fired. ♦ About one hundred Westchester High... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted March 29, 2006 1:39 PM
Former boxing champion James Butler, who fought as “The Harlem Hammer,” pleaded guilty to voluntary manslaughter and arson Monday in the 2004 bludgeoning death of freelance sportswriter Sam Kellerman. Butler... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted March 27, 2006 6:14 PM
♦ Former West Basin Municipal Water District board member R. Keith McDonald, convicted on ten felony counts of corruption, has asked to delay prison so he can care for his ailing... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted March 24, 2006 5:50 PM
Andy Spahn, the head of corporate affairs at DreamWorks and political consigliere to Messrs. Geffen, Spielberg and Katzenberg, is heading out on his own. Well, he won't exactly be alone.... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted March 24, 2006 2:45 AM
Santa Monica's other side of the tracks...getting serious about L.A.'s homeless...retraction city at the Daily News...plus the Undie Run, some new Ansel Adams photos, blogging my USC panel and a... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted March 24, 2006 2:41 AM
Gustavo Arellano at the OC Weekly's blog gets in the face of "Chicano yaktivists" (his term) who are attacking Daniel Hernandez of the sister LA Weekly for his hard-hitting story... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted March 22, 2006 1:23 AM
Turn the page for items on Dean Singleton's California strategy, Sheriff Baca's Compton strategy, a Saudi prince gets booed at Town Hall Los Angeles, celebrities at the fashion shows and... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted March 22, 2006 12:58 AM
Orange County Register columnist Mayrav Saar writes in the paper today about what she gets from posting at Big Action!, a group blog whose writers include Leslie Gornstein (E! Online's... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted March 21, 2006 10:12 AM
♦ New indictment coming in Pellicano case in early April, prosecutor says. ♦ Funny how the fate of Knight-Ridder's Northern California newspapers could be settled by either Ron Burkle or fellow L.A.... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted March 20, 2006 3:19 PM
I just caught up to the official KTLA blogs written by four of the station's top news anchors. In theory they represent an admirable step in connecting the talking heads... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted March 20, 2006 12:03 PM
Anthony Pellicano will go into court today and ask for an expedited trial, possibly foregoing the use of a federal public defender, journalist Ross Johnson reports. Family members tell Johnson... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted March 20, 2006 1:48 AM
Turn the page for Orlov's return...how Heidi Fleiss got bugged and screwed...a new lead Tinseltown Spywitness...Huffington's mea culpa...political theater downtown...and the return of Fashion Week. Those items and a lot... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted March 20, 2006 1:38 AM
♦ Rep. Maxine Waters' and her husband's presence at the SEIU's endorsement interviews in January has candidates in an uproar and got the attention of the FBI, the Los Angeles Wave... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted March 17, 2006 3:31 PM
Just as I was posting the last item on KPCC, the station sent word that Times columnist Patt Morrison is the new host of "Talk of the City." Kitty Felde... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted March 17, 2006 12:57 PM
Orange County Register reporter Larry Welborn was 25 when he covered a woman's suspicious death in 1974 and never believed the official ruling of suicide. He gathered string off and... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted March 17, 2006 12:26 PM
Because it feels like a notesy kind of day... The Cultural Heritage Commission will recommend to the City Council that the Derby in Los Feliz be declared a historic-cultural monument.... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted March 16, 2006 3:15 PM
In addition to the Los Angeles magazine profile by Jesse Katz, National Magazine Awards finalists of local note include three pieces of criticism on the subject of parenting that Sandra... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted March 16, 2006 1:40 PM
Dan Laidman, who became the new guy in the Daily News' City Hall bureau just last summer, is jumping to Copley News Service to fill the shoes of David Zahniser.... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted March 16, 2006 12:11 PM
Seeing old friends in federal court...fining Pierce O'Donnell and Martin Ludlow...Giving Steve Cooley a pass...Arnold and Sirhan...Tear-downs in Century City...and Larry King gets no respect again. Those items and quite... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted March 15, 2006 2:20 AM
There may not yet be a Los Angeles Examiner in the fledgling Philip Anschutz newspaper empire, but there is a dedicated L.A. page on Examiner.com. The website lets you choose... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted March 15, 2006 12:46 AM
The L.A. chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists has abandoned downtown's Figueroa Hotel as the venue for its monthly schmoozefest. They are trying out the Cat & Fiddle on... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted March 14, 2006 4:00 PM
Pellicano turns up on tapes cutting deals with tabloid reporters... there may be a Singleton in the future of Norcal newspapers...Jay Leno does the mea culpa...the blogger king of Santa... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted March 14, 2006 2:06 AM
Linking Brad Grey to Pellicano through Linda Doucett...two heads for Universal?...those stinking badges for friends of Lee Baca...seeing purple along Wilshire Boulevard...Robert Altman's new heart...your NCAA brackets...and borrowing a familiar... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted March 13, 2006 1:45 AM
People have been asking what ever happened with the arrest of KCRW's Chris Douridas. Monday's Los Angeles Times reports the DA hasn't decided whether to charge Douridas, pending the results... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted March 12, 2006 9:26 PM
⇒ Scientists at JPL were happy to hear a signal from the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter following a successful entry into orbit. Added: Susan at 2020 Hindsight live-blogged the entry procedure... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted March 10, 2006 5:16 PM
David Willis is the BBC's West Coast correspondent, based here. He has reported on several continents, and returned to L.A. in 2004 after completing a fellowship at Oxford. For six... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted March 10, 2006 1:04 PM
KPCC has named Kitty Felde a Special Correspondent: "In that new role, Felde will be responsible for in-depth reporting and special coverage of a wide variety of issues in southern... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted March 9, 2006 1:43 PM
Laura Chick locks and loads to talk about schools...the mayor gets ready to name a transportation chief...Daniel Hernandez on secret talks to save the South L.A. farm...Ludlow pleads after being... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted March 9, 2006 1:49 AM
Runoff for school board...more strangeness around the Ferrari Enzo crash...Rob Reiner's campaign chief steps out of the limelight...L.A.'s blogging pet czar blasts the Animal Defense League...while Cardinal Mahony seeks a... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted March 8, 2006 1:37 AM
City News Service is reporting that Sam Chu Lin, a former CBS News correspondent who reported most recently for Fox 11, died Sunday in Burbank. Chu Lin began reporting in... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted March 6, 2006 10:26 PM
Better late than never—here is the internal memo from KFWB News Director Andy Ludlum: From: Andy Ludlum Subject: Exciting News!!! I have some exciting news...you'll see several of your colleagues... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted March 6, 2006 5:26 PM
First reviews of the Oscars and Jon Stewart: not good. Also, Arnie Berghoff's diabetes roast gets some scrutiny, the Times finds waste in the local bioterrorism budget, Villaraigosa promises to... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted March 6, 2006 1:54 AM
The LA Weekly has created another new blog, "Nikki Finke's Deadline Hollywood Daily." The kickoff post announces that she will be live-blogging the Oscars on Sunday: Come for the Cynicism... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted March 4, 2006 12:48 AM
The Times moved quickly to fill the job vacated recently by Alice Short. But now they need a new media editor: To: The Staff From: John Montorio, Associate Editor Lennie... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted March 2, 2006 5:14 PM
During the opening of "Talk of the City" on KPCC at 2 pm, Kitty Felde urged listeners to stick around to the end: "As promised, we will have a very... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted March 2, 2006 3:04 PM
One thing is clear from Bill Plaschke's LAT column today where Dodgers pitcher Derek Lowe finally talks about his personal turmoil last season: the beat writers at Dodger Stadium missed... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted March 2, 2006 1:52 PM
Tomorrow is the last Talk of the City on KPCC with Kitty Felde as the live host. She was removed by program director Craig Curtis and has been offered a... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted March 1, 2006 7:55 PM
Dennis McDougal, author of Privileged Son: Otis Chandler and the Rise and Fall of the LA Times Dynasty, gave a lecture on his subject and former publisher at the Los... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted February 28, 2006 8:50 PM
People care about this stuff and write in. Today several readers noticed that the Times got two names wrong in the Eddie Nalbandian obituary in this morning's paper. The early... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted February 28, 2006 10:17 AM
Why the Los Angeles Times may be getting some new window blinds, blog reaction to the death of Otis Chandler, Channel 5's anchors accept a free night at a swanky... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted February 28, 2006 1:14 AM
⇒ USC Annenberg awarded the Selden Ring investigative reporting prize to the Washington Post for stories on Washington lobbyist Jack Abramoff. Copley News Service reporters Marcus A. Stern and Jerry... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted February 27, 2006 2:34 PM
What is it the last couple of days? Add actor Dennis Weaver to the list of newly passed. Also, John Rabe did a piece today on KPCC about Eddie (Zachary... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted February 27, 2006 1:34 PM
A piece in today's LAT Calendar asks why author Kate Braverman isn't more famous in Los Angeles, her hometown. She is more than happy to fill in Anne-Marie O'Connor on... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted February 24, 2006 10:23 AM
Full plate for a Friday morning: Plaschke rips the silver from Sasha Cohen's neck, Steve Cooley's least favorite Mexican fugitive is nabbed, the Writers Guild invites Cheryl Rhoden to stay... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted February 24, 2006 1:45 AM
Orange County Register investigative editor Mark Katches emailed his staff yesterday about losing one of his prized reporters to the Los Angeles Times: "As staff departures go, this one is... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted February 23, 2006 9:11 AM
Maria Elena Durazo watch begins, the Z Man appears in the LA Weekly, "Ask a Mexican" cracks Column One, questions about Ed Boks—all this and an old murder in Alhambra... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted February 23, 2006 9:03 AM
Another near-miss at LAX, Vin Scully signs on for three more years (but that's probably it), chiding Erin Aubry Kaplan on race, the editor of the LAT's Home section moves... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted February 22, 2006 2:40 AM
⇒ Terry Christensen appeared in federal court to plead not guilty to charges implicating him in illegal wiretapping of Kirk Kerkorian's wife by Anthony Pellicano. Christensen also resigned from the... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted February 21, 2006 6:37 PM
Josh Getlin, New York bureau chief for the Los Angeles Times, is moving over to the Calendar staff to cover the publishing beat. He will remain bureau chief, while mixing... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted February 21, 2006 5:10 PM
Would you believe Jackie Goldberg for school superintendent? Rampant talk of that, plus good press for Alan Rothenberg, the mystery ooze of Olive Street takes a toll, a fresh crop... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted February 21, 2006 1:47 AM
Ray Richmond quit his Hollywood Reporter column in December to jump to E! Entertainment Television as director of corporate and trade publicity. Tomorrow he jumps back to THR. He 'splains... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted February 20, 2006 5:49 PM
Murder sprees in Venice (maybe) and the gangland of Panorama City-North Hills...How Darry Sragow came to hire former Roy Romer advisor Glenn Gritzner at Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal is the... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted February 20, 2006 2:43 PM
Today's Daily Journal (no link) features a front-page piece on John Stodder, the indicted former Fleishman-Hillard executive turned blogger who I began telling you about last month. Erin Park reports:... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted February 17, 2006 12:47 PM
John Broder is returning to the Washington bureau of the New York Times, and will be replaced as Los Angeles bureau chief this summer by Jennifer Steinhauer. "One of the... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted February 17, 2006 10:47 AM
Michael Kinsley was dismissed as editor material for The Atlantic last summer, and he acknowledges in today's New York Observer that he has never been offered the job. But the... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted February 15, 2006 1:13 PM
Maybe it's been around awhile, I just didn't know of takemypicture.com. Not much information about the photographer— well none really—but Leonard's gallery of Los Angeles photos dates back to the... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted February 15, 2006 11:22 AM
Loyalty to Jill Murphy may have finally been Barry Munitz's undoing, the police commission waffles, going after Deaton, bomb on the 210 and another batch of morning media notes—all after... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted February 14, 2006 12:45 AM
Three lead items out of the largest local bureaucracy in the nation, none of them good news...plus Hiltzik lashes Keith Brackpool, no retraction for the UFW, the best and worst... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted February 13, 2006 2:20 AM
New ones are added to the tail end through the weekend.... ⇒ Robert Parry, who frequently contributed when LA Observed took comments, returned last month from Iraq duty as a... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted February 12, 2006 1:11 AM
Rodger Jacobs has a profile in Xbiz of Eric Edwards, said to have acted in adult films from the 1960s to the 1990s and recently both homeless with a thirteen-year-old... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted February 10, 2006 1:10 PM
When last we spoke of Desiree Horton, the former Channel 5 pilot who blogs at The Adventures of Chopper Chick!, she had requested that fans send Hooters t-shirts to her... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted February 10, 2006 1:59 AM
An exclusive on the new boss at "California Connected," a $15 million payday for three LAPD cops, Rocky's legal memo to the police commission and more Barry Munitz farewells—plus the... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted February 10, 2006 1:20 AM
Chris Ayres, who interprets Los Angeles for the Brits back home as the correspondent here for the Times of London, now blogs about it on the paper's website. So L.A.... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted February 9, 2006 11:48 AM
Los Angeles billionaire A. Jerrold Perenchio is apparently ready to put Univision Communications up for sale and cash out, the New York Times reports based on unnamed sources. Perenchio is... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted February 8, 2006 1:53 PM
Tom Teicholz is impressed by the museum on PCH. Meanwhile, Tyler Green gets a look at the Getty piece in today's Vanity Fair and blogs: 'Summation of Los Angeles Times... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted February 8, 2006 11:43 AM
John Stodder blogs about a time when Elliot Mintz flacked for John and Yoko, not Paris, and was one of the hip voices on the late, still-missed FM station KPPC.... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted February 8, 2006 11:04 AM
Bill Marimow, the former editor of the Baltimore Sun and a protege of departed L.A. Times editor John Carroll, got the nod today as Vice President for News at National... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted February 8, 2006 10:20 AM
Vanity Fair's Hollywood issue out Tuesday has more than Scarlett and Keira nude on the cover (though that's a pretty decent jump-start on newsstand sales.) There's a Vicki Ward piece... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted February 7, 2006 9:22 PM
⇒ Truthdig.com's Blair Golson contends that Times editor Dean Baquet would not meet with representatives of the United Farm Workers union to hear their challenges to the paper's recent investigative... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted February 6, 2006 5:14 PM
Eyewitness News goes hi-def, James Frey has a few words for the LAT, the Downtown News loses patience with Villaraigosa and a former mayor goes in for a tuneup—plus a... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted February 6, 2006 2:31 AM
⇒ Times columnist Gregory Rodriguez writes that the Democrats would have reached more Latino voters had Antonio Villaraigosa given the English-language State of the Union response: "the ethnic politics behind... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted February 5, 2006 12:30 PM
Jack Weiss makes his ambition more or less official, Anthony Pellicano comes back to town, the Ambassador gets a proper send-off, Channel 13 News adds a comic, more bad news... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted February 3, 2006 8:56 AM
David Zahniser, the Copley News Service reporter in City Hall whose work appears mostly in the Daily Breeze, is jumping to the LA Weekly. He presumably fills the spot opened... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted February 2, 2006 12:41 PM
Looks like there's finally a new head of LACMA, Tom LaBonge finally makes it in Column One, County Health finally comes clean about the hepatitis A outbreak, Nikki Finke finally... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted February 2, 2006 2:32 AM
Updated with new entries at the bottom ⇒ Copies of the first West magazine issue were seen at the Times' Travel Show over the weekend. The cover piece in the... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted February 1, 2006 2:35 AM
Chief Bratton makes a finding in the Devin Brown killing, Guerdon Stuckey gets an offer, Richard Meruelo didn't lay a million on the Center for Law in the Public Interest,... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted January 31, 2006 2:15 AM
Ron Fineman.com has always had a bit of a thing about sexually provocative TV news shows and reporters, especially Channel 13 and Lauren Sanchez. The pay site now claims it... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted January 31, 2006 12:43 AM
Talk about awkward timing. Miriam Pawel, the reporter on this month's L.A. Times' series about the United Farm Workers union, applied for the employee buyout back in November and was... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted January 31, 2006 12:22 AM
John Antczak, Steve Kindred, Julia Seifer and David Zahniser will receive the Los Angeles chapter's Distinguished Journalist award at a banquet later this year. Karlene Goller will take home the... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted January 30, 2006 1:31 PM
⇒ The Daily News' Beth Barrett investigated complaints that the Tribune Company's philanthropic foundation counted about $3 million donated by Los Angeles charities as part of its own fundraising. ⇒... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted January 29, 2006 9:53 PM
Since the last time I looked, CBS 2/KCAL 9 has added The Reporter's Blog by veteran Paul Dandridge and In the Field by news photographer Bryan Frank. Dandridge is using... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted January 28, 2006 1:21 AM
In the February issue of Los Angeles magazine, RJ Smith examines Pajamas Media to ask whether it is a fledgling media phenomenon or a blip with $3.5 million in seed... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted January 27, 2006 10:25 PM
Antonio maps out his war plan for conquering the school board, Rocky takes it on the chin (twice), gang war in Watts and every Oscar-eligible film of 2005—plus Byron Miranda,... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted January 27, 2006 2:54 AM
Joel Stein will be on Oprah at 3 pm on Channel 7, but not to talk about his own controversy of the moment. The LAT op-ed columnist is one of... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted January 26, 2006 2:48 PM
⇒ Three Los Angeles-based blogs—perennial number one Boing Boing, plus The Huffington Post and Crooks and Liars—are in Technorati's Top 10 based on link popularity. ⇒ Remember the USC cheerleader... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted January 26, 2006 11:51 AM
This is the anniversary of the Metrolink disaster near Glassell Park. Unrelated, we think, fictionating non-fictionist James Frey will guest on Oprah to address the literary hubbub he has created.... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted January 26, 2006 1:36 AM
I've already noted the LAT's addition of Rob Greene and Matt Welch (his job is actually assistant editorial page editor.) Today Andrés Martinez posted his memo to the staff and... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted January 24, 2006 11:24 AM
Joel Stein's going to get letters [finally?—ed.] for writing that its wussy to "support the troops" if you oppose the war. Also if you fly a yellow ribbon. And don't... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted January 24, 2006 2:25 AM
Recent buyouts and transfers pretty much cleaned out the religion desk at the L.A Times. To fill the void, veteran state desk reporter Louis Sahagun is moving to the religion... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted January 23, 2006 10:44 PM
A new week begins with happy birthday greetings to the mayor, a glitch at KPCC, the Defamer-in-chief in Vanity Fair and a dustup between Cathy Seipp and a New York... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted January 23, 2006 3:09 AM
Some goodies from here and there. Late adds will go at the bottom. ⇒ Former LAT syndicated columnist Norah Vincent's book on going undercover in the male world, Self-Made Man:... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted January 22, 2006 2:25 AM
Larry Davis, one of the L.A. Times' top photographers until he left on a buyout in 1995, killed himself in Seattle yesterday. His wife had died of cancer two years... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted January 20, 2006 11:37 PM
You can end the week with a Wall Street Journal look at Dave Dreier, a thousand Valleyites out of work, possible trouble for Ron Deaton at DWP, a new Times... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted January 20, 2006 1:59 AM
826LA, the Venice writing and tutoring center where Mayor Villaraigosa pitched in as a guest editor, has cooked up a new program with the Lakers to help high school students... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted January 19, 2006 3:49 PM
The mayor draws a crowd in Sherman Oaks, the UCLA controversy, bunch of reporter moves at the Times and Long Beach cops still can't find their shotguns...that and much more... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted January 19, 2006 4:21 AM
The Guardian wasn't the only U.K. paper to staff the execution of Clarence Ray Allen. The Telegraph also took a story from its Los Angeles correspondent, Catherine Elsworth, who juggled... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted January 18, 2006 1:34 PM
Theater writer Don Shirley took the L.A. Times buyout and will debut a new column next week in CityBeat and ValleyBeat. "I'm excited about opening a new arena for local... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted January 18, 2006 12:29 PM
Steve Grace is retiring as president of Channel 36, the citywide educational access channel, and is being succeeded by new general manager Carla Carlini. She is the the News Manager... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted January 18, 2006 11:13 AM
City Controller Laura Chick is profiled on tonight's Life & Times on KCET at 6:30. Longtime LAT pop music editor and critic Robert Hilburn, who is stepping down this month,... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted January 18, 2006 10:39 AM
In the morning news rodeo, op-ed newcomer Erin Aubry Kaplan dumps on Herb Wesson, what the Golden Globes could do to slow immigration, why you won't see many A380's at... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted January 18, 2006 1:32 AM
Marjorie Miller, the L.A. Times editor in charge of the foreign staff, announced a new deputy this afternoon. It's David Lauter, confirming the speculation we heard last week. Miller's memo... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted January 17, 2006 6:10 PM
After 47 years and thousands of bylines, retiring Times staff writer Eric Malnic sent the following email to his Metro colleagues and left the Spring Street newsroom to a standing... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted January 17, 2006 9:25 AM
Smelly beaches in the South Bay, no new Wal-Mart in the Valley, horny females on Channel 2 and the winners of the Golden Globes—plus where Alex Padilla will eat breakfast... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted January 17, 2006 2:21 AM
The House that Jack Kent Cooke Built might be no more, air rights are hot again downtown (and so is Richard Meruelo), Tad Friend expounds on Los Angeles car chases...plus... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted January 16, 2006 3:43 AM
Last week's post about the Pasadena Weekly story by former Reader writer Nigey Lennon prompted some unusually detailed responses. One email picked up on Lennon's statement that she couldn't get... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted January 16, 2006 2:29 AM
Updated all weekend, with the newest at the bottom: ⇒ KCRW music host Chris Douridas is free on $1 million bail after being arrested Jan. 6 on suspicion that he... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted January 14, 2006 11:25 AM
Miriam Pawel, the reporter on this week's L.A. Times' series on the United Farm Workers union, will be on KPFK's Deadline L.A. Saturday at noon at 90.7 FM. Barbara Osborn... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted January 13, 2006 1:59 PM
This year's Los Angeles Times Book Festival at UCLA will be April 29-30—no repeat of last year's awkward overlap with Passover, which cost the festival some authors and probably some... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted January 12, 2006 6:18 PM
Today's LA Weekly cover story by Paul Cullum reconstructs what happened near Wilshire and Bundy in 2001 when screenwriter Eric Red plowed his Jeep Cherokee into a stopped Honda, careened... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted January 12, 2006 5:50 PM
Interesting piece on local alt-weekly lore in today's Pasadena Weekly. Nigey Lennon, who spent a decade writing for the old L.A. Reader along with her ex-husband Lionel Rolfe, writes that... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted January 12, 2006 2:24 AM
CBS2 anchor Kent Shocknek blogs a little something on the station website almost every day. Earlier this week he had some fun with the governor's motorcycle accident. It's usually light... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted January 11, 2006 6:11 PM
Chris Ayres, Los Angeles correspondent for the Times of London, returned from the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas and wrote a piece harshing on the fake image and the... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted January 11, 2006 5:55 PM
Another Pellicano case guilty plea, Arnold's illegal problem, Patterico and Hiltzik go mainstream, DA Cooley wants to reform three strikes—plus the end of the UFW series, Michael Eisner, Mack Reed,... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted January 11, 2006 1:24 AM
Former Channel 5 pilot/traffic reporter Desiree Horton lives in Chatsworth and has a blog: The Adventures of Chopper Chick! She posts about flying on traffic reports and car chases for... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted January 10, 2006 9:45 PM
The UFW urges emails to the editor of the L.A. Times, Chick and Romer cozy up, one less obstacle for New Times and a stalwart of the Los Angeles Rams... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted January 10, 2006 1:30 AM
Turn the page for the fill-in on Gov. Schwarzenegger's fat lip, the latest on the Times' UFW investigation, Eric Garcetti week at the city council, Sheriff Baca's defense of Compton,... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted January 9, 2006 2:11 AM
⇒ Geoffrey Mohan, an editor on the L.A. Times California desk, moves to assistant foreign editor. He was previously Latin America bureau chief for Newsday. The Times also posted an... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted January 6, 2006 5:25 PM
Today's LAT editorial page delivers on its Rose Bowl wager to say something nice about Texas: "Any state that gave us Lance Armstrong, Lyle Lovett and Larry McMurtry can't be... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted January 6, 2006 1:47 AM
Patt Morrison takes sides with Stephanie Edwards on the LAT op-ed page and proposes an equitable solution at next year's Rose Parade: Stephanie in the warm booth with Heath Ledger,... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted January 5, 2006 1:12 AM
We're number two! USC lost the Rose Bowl and the national championship to Texas 41-38. Thirty-two of those points came in the last quarter. Today's front pagesNew York Times See/Read... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted January 5, 2006 1:04 AM
Stephanie Edwards emailed the Times' Scott Collins [Scott Collins wrote the story but I'm told that Edwards emailed Susan King] to scoff at the suggestion of bad blood between her... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted January 3, 2006 11:29 PM
Welcome back to work. Since it's been awhile, I'm letting it run long... Today's front pagesNew York Times See/Read Washington Post See/ReadLA Times See/ReadDaily News See/ReadDaily Breeze See/ReadPress-Telegram See/Read Register... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted January 3, 2006 3:02 AM
If they are not there already, later today I'll be adding these noteworthy new participants in the L.A. blogosphere. Bill Bradley is the California political analyst with the mostest Schwarzenegger... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted January 3, 2006 1:52 AM
Yes it rained—and hard—on the Rose Parade, but KTLA figured out a way around the tension in the booth between longtime hosts Bob Eubanks and Stephanie Edwards. They demoted Edwards... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted January 2, 2006 11:52 AM
Newest adds at the bottom... ⇒ KNX 1070 reporter Michael Linder's website details his background as a KTLA reporter, creator of "America's Most Wanted" and "The Jesse Jackson Show" and... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted December 30, 2005 1:44 AM
⇒ New managing editor at the Long Beach Press-Telegram: it's John Futch. Also, Jason Gewirtz becomes city editor for business and John Canalis moves to the editorial/opinion pages. ⇒ A... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted December 29, 2005 11:31 AM
⇒ Only in L.A. quote of the day: "Just 2,200 square feet—it's practically an apartment" — Screenwriter Naomi Foner, mother of Maggie and Jake Gyllenhaal, complaining in the LAT that... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted December 28, 2005 11:53 AM
⇒ City Controller Laura Chick turned up the heat today on schools Supt. Roy Romer, making a public records act request for all federal, state, county, and internal audits of... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted December 27, 2005 4:21 PM
⇒ Robert Rector, associate editor of the Pasadena Star-News, is leaving Jan. 13. He will write a twice-a-week column for the San Gabriel Valley News Group papers. He held a... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted December 21, 2005 3:13 PM
As many expected, LAT op-ed editor Nick Goldberg today also got responsibility for the Sunday Current section. The staffs of each will be merged and Goldberg receives a couple of... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted December 20, 2005 9:11 PM
Colleagues of longtime LAT film reviewer Kevin Thomas have been unhappy that he was nudged to take the buyout and upset that after four decades the paper did not plan... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted December 20, 2005 8:42 PM
More than 2,000 people (LAT; AP says "hundreds") viewed the body of executed murderer Tookie Williams Monday at a mortuary on South Vermont. Jesse Jackson, Louis Farrakhan and Snoop Dog... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted December 20, 2005 1:27 AM
Former LAT reporter Ken Garcia explains in his new column in the Phil Anschutz-owned San Francisco Examiner why he left the cross-town Chronicle, where he also had been a columnist:... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted December 19, 2005 10:52 AM
⇒ The Daily News' Beth Barrett takes off from last week's nugget (and follow-up) about City Council time off to compare the L.A. council's pay and perks to other cities.... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted December 18, 2005 11:04 PM
⇒ Retired NFL defensive lineman Darrell Russell and a former Trojan teammate at USC, Michael Paul Bastianelli, died early today after a high-speed car crash on La Cienega near Pico.... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted December 15, 2005 3:43 PM
HBO is planning a half-hour comedy based on the life of, well, Ruth Reichl. She is the editor of Gourmet who used to be the restaurant critic in disguise for... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted December 13, 2005 1:56 PM
New media reporter Anne Riley-Katz's LABJ piece on Robert Scheer's venture Truthdig.com focuses less on the deposed L.A. Times columnist and more on co-founder and publisher Zuade Kaufman. With good... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted December 12, 2005 1:54 AM
Tookie Williams has asked for a stay of execution by the state Supreme Court. No word yet. (* Also: Gov. Schwarzenegger won't divulge his ruling on clemency until Monday, his... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted December 11, 2005 3:42 PM
Lisa Guerrero used to be a sports reporter for KCBS and KTTV here, then for the "Regional Sports Report" on Fox Sports West. She was also a regular on Fox's... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted December 9, 2005 4:07 PM
The LA Weekly's (possibly) longest-serving editorial staffer, Mary Katherine Aldin, has been there more than twenty years and remembers when "Jay and Joie were running the Weekly out of his... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted December 7, 2005 3:14 PM
UC Irvine historian Jon Wiener has been suing the government under the Freedom of Information Act since 1983 for complete access to the voluminous John Lennon FBI files. J. Edgar... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted December 7, 2005 1:15 PM
No sooner did the Hollywood Reporter gets its annual Power 100 of most important women into print than Publisher and Editor-in-chief Robert Dowling announced he is leaving at the end... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted December 6, 2005 3:48 PM
Los Angeles has posted the top stories from the December issue, including Steve Oney's feature on Defamer Mark Lisanti and the rise of online gossip. The most influential and intimidating... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted December 6, 2005 10:38 AM
Village Voice editor Don Forst resigned effective December 31, leaving ahead of the New Times takeover of his paper (along with the LA Weekly and OC Weekly.) "A number of... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted December 5, 2005 2:45 PM
Todd Purdum, the former Los Angeles bureau chief for the New York Times who also has covered the White House, will depart the paper's Washington bureau at the end of... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted December 2, 2005 12:27 PM
Longtime LAT writer Al Martinez uses today's column to report that he survived the buyout and layoff putsch, and to commiserate with those who lost jobs at the Times and... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted December 2, 2005 2:28 AM
LA Observed took note last year when Joie Davidow, co-founder of LA Weekly and the late LA Style, went Roman part-time. Laurie at LA.com points out that she now runs... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted November 26, 2005 11:58 AM
In the December issue of The Atlantic, Hanna Rosin is the latest writer to take a look at the Jesus-ization of Hollywood. They sit in a semicircle on the homey... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted November 25, 2005 11:39 PM
Robert Scheer's syndicated column, dropped last week by the Times, will appear from now on in the L.A. Alternative. The paper, formerly known as the L.A. Alternative Press, has been... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted November 18, 2005 6:14 PM
Robert Scheer will not be heard on today's Left, Right & Center on KCRW. But ScheerNation shouldn't get all protesty and throw up a picket line on Pico. He is... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted November 18, 2005 12:53 PM
♦ Yeah, curator Marion True shouldn't have taken that $400,000 loan from two wealthy art collectors right after the Getty acquired their collection. Today's front pages New York Times See/Read Washington... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted November 17, 2005 2:19 AM
It was only last January that ex-Channel 5 anchor Sharon Tay landed a hosting gig at MSNBC. Well, TVNewswer reports today that MSNBC At the Movies and the "MSNBC Hot... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted November 15, 2005 5:44 PM
Gary Dretzka of Movie City News knew Brenda You, the L.A. writer who apparently committed suicide over the weekend, and adds some needed texture to her story in an unpublished... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted November 15, 2005 3:18 PM
Gawker posts this regarding the weekend death of Brenda You, a freelance writer who had the unusual profile of having been a Playboy model, a protege of Bonnie Fuller at... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted November 14, 2005 9:40 PM
The Denver Business Journal says that billionaire Phil Anschutz is on the short list of potential buyers of the 32 Knight Ridder newspapers. For anyone who still thinks that Anschutz... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted November 14, 2005 2:29 PM
Catching up with a longer-than-usual helping of Monday morsels... ♦ The Times' powerful package on conservator scams was three years in the making: among other things, a prime example of the... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted November 14, 2005 5:37 AM
The L.A. Alternative Press is going weekly and taking a new name: the L.A. Alternative. The first issue will hit Friday, Dec. 4, according to a release that landed today:... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted November 10, 2005 11:59 PM
The editorial cartoonist that liberals love to hate, Michael Ramirez, is not part of the new Times op-ed lineup announced today by Editor of the Editorial Pages Andrés Martinez. You... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted November 10, 2005 10:17 PM
The venerable and recently retired Variety columnist began posting yesterday and says that Michael Hiltzik's blog in the L.A. Times inspired him to take the plunge. "I'll avoid the obvious,... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted November 10, 2005 9:46 AM
Marc Cooper writes in the LA Weekly that the axing of Robert Scheer's syndicated op-ed column amounts to another bad circulation-draining move by the Los Angeles Times: To mediate its... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted November 10, 2005 2:46 AM
Here's an update to my exclusive post last Friday on the end of Robert Scheer's column on the L.A. Times op-ed page: He went on KPCC's "Airtalk with Larry Mantle"... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted November 8, 2005 4:32 PM
♦ Mayor Villaraigosa will vote today in his new neighborhood in Hancock Park-adjacent, not back in Mount Washington. Meanwhile, don't expect any L.A. Times exit poll data. Too expensive this time... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted November 8, 2005 1:27 AM
Reporter Matt Myerhoff is leaving the L.A. Business Journal to be communications director for Councilman Greig Smith...Lots of newsroom buzz at the Daily News about the futures of Business Editor... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted November 4, 2005 11:57 PM
Lots of chatter in local media circles these days about the syndicated L.A. Times columnist and KCRW commentator from the left. First, it appears that Scheer is about to lose... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted November 4, 2005 4:43 PM
Former LAT Editor John Carroll has been invited to spend a semester at the Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy at Harvard. There's a good chance... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted October 31, 2005 11:08 AM
Yes, some tweaks to the look and the front pages box. The latter drove the former. The box now has separate links to view the actual front pages (where available)... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted October 31, 2005 2:52 AM
Pajamas Media has inked Judith Miller as keynote speaker for its Nov. 16 launch in New York (according to Roger Simon) and added Austin Bay to the editorial board...L.A. Times... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted October 28, 2005 11:43 PM
The L.A. journalist revealed her secret today at her blog, Cathy's World: Because sure, breast cancer is no fun; I’ve had friends who’ve died of it. But it also has... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted October 28, 2005 6:36 PM
Mark Lacter has been the editor of the L.A. Business Journal for almost nine years, with a two-year break (ending in 2001) as a senior editor at Forbes. He told... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted October 28, 2005 3:35 PM
Today's front pages New York Times LA Times Daily News LB Press-Telegram OC Register IV Daily Bulletin La OpiniónMore local newsVariety Hollywood Reporter CBS-2NBC-4 ABC-7 Fox-11KPCC SoBay Daily BreezePasadena Star... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted October 27, 2005 1:58 AM
The LA Weekly lately has promoted the timeliness of its website, quickly posting news and observations before the paper comes out. Not so on the topic of the paper's soon-to-be-new... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted October 25, 2005 1:09 PM
In his latest LA Notebook, Times of London correspondent Chris Ayres tells U.K. readers that he has decided to become a Los Angeles bicycle rider, despite his loathing of that... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted October 25, 2005 12:46 PM
Managing Editor Tony Palazzo is leaving the Los Angeles Business Journal for an editing job in the L.A. bureau of Bloomberg News. And the new media reporter is Anne Riley-Katz,... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted October 18, 2005 2:51 PM
♦ Variety is ending the VLife experiment. Last issue is Feb. 1. I believe Mike at FishbowlLA was first up with the news. ♦ Daily Breeze music writer Corey Levitan announced that... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted October 16, 2005 8:30 PM
Jennifer York, KTLA's airborne reporter for thirteen years until 2004, has an honored place in the lore passed down to the new recruits around the spacious LAObserved suites. She... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted October 14, 2005 11:52 PM
Matt Szabo met Knight Ridder reporter Dion Nissenbaum during Richard Riordan's 2003 campaign for governor. Szabo was a campaign spokesman, and Nissenbaum covered the race for the San Jose Mercury.... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted October 13, 2005 4:20 PM
♦ Robert Iger and Steve Jobs make nice, and will start making ABC shows available on the new video Ipod. ♦ Add a new pro to the ranks of local bloggers about... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted October 13, 2005 2:15 AM
♦ Tonight is Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa's walk-on role on the George Lopez sitcom on ABC. Daniel Hernandez in the LAT analyzes the bilingual press conferences and other evidences of "the Latino... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted October 12, 2005 1:56 AM
Former Los Angeles Magazine editor Michael Caruso is leaving as editor of Men's Journal after two years. He declined to renew his contract because of unhappiness with Wenner Media's management... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted October 11, 2005 11:03 AM
Tad Friend, writer of the New Yorker's occasional "Letter from California" feature, once again explains his m.o. in an interview with the San Francisco Chronicle. Yes, he flies out from... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted October 10, 2005 9:55 AM
Since Columbus Day is not one of our two dozen company-paid holidays here at LAObserved LLC... ♦ The Supreme Court hears oral arguments this week in Garcetti v. Ceballos, the case... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted October 10, 2005 1:45 AM
Follow-ups, catch-ups and clearing off the desk for Columbus Day... ♦ Sunday's L.A. Times fronts a Steve Lopez column about his violin-playing street person, Nathaniel Anthony Ayers, taking in the stage... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted October 9, 2005 1:15 PM
♦ Mayor Villaraigosa nearly filled the Tom Bradley Room on the top of the City Hall tower with media there to hear him recite the accomplishments of his first 98 days... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted October 7, 2005 2:58 AM
In addition to last night's items on the Times stories by Ken Auletta and the Wall Street Journal, here are some other things you might want to know about: ♦ Getty... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted October 3, 2005 2:41 AM
Kim Day got the offer she couldn't refuse to leave as head of LAX personally from Mayor Villaraigosa's in-house counsel Thomas Saenz and deputy chief of staff Marcus Allen, according... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted October 1, 2005 10:43 PM
Some of the female voices who shaped L.A. music radio will be on hand at the Knitting Factory tonight to talk about the good old days and the scary new... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted September 27, 2005 12:13 PM
♦ St. Vincent's did a liver transplant on a Saudi national who was #52 on the waiting list, collecting $339,000 from the Saudi Arabian embassy and screwing a patient at UCLA... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted September 27, 2005 1:26 AM
♦ Rachel Uranga reports in the Daily News on the phenomenon of L.A. immigrants skipping English to learn whatever is spoken in their neighborhood: "Peruvian immigrant Miguel Aliaga always knew that... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted September 26, 2005 1:34 AM
US Weekly's WORLDWIDE EXCLUSIVE NEWS BULLETIN on the wedding of Demi Moore and Ashton Kutcher runs three paragraphs and carries eight credit lines for "exclusive reporting." People confirms the news... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted September 25, 2005 6:22 PM
The Online News Association has posted the awards finalists selected by a panel of judges (myself included) that met this weekend at USC. The annual Online Journalism Awards, administered by... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted September 25, 2005 12:22 PM
Pink's, the famous hot dog stand on La Brea near Melrose, has added the Patt Morrison Baja Veggie Dog to the menu. Gloria Pink sends word that the Times columnist,... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted September 24, 2005 11:51 PM
Light day on the blog. I'll be at USC judging the Online News Association awards for this year. ♦ I know a true con man never stops conning, but this is... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted September 23, 2005 1:14 AM
Let's hope L.A. smells better today... ♦ Today's LA Weekly declares war on air pollution with a thirty-page special package that looks closely at the threat posed by ultrafine particles and... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted September 22, 2005 1:28 AM
Mickey Kaus still can't get the LAT to let him de-subscribe...Anthony York at the Capitol Weekly, and The Roundup, report on Gov. Schwarzenegger excluding the Times from a series of... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted September 21, 2005 2:18 PM
Robert Parry, who is serving with the Army in Iraq, has been following the stench comments and offers to solve the mystery: Hey Kevin... I think I know what that... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted September 21, 2005 1:45 PM
Happy Wednesday... ♦ DWP workers got the big raises they were demanding: up to 28% over five years. The Council voted 10-3 to go along. DN, LAT ♦ Bill Burke withdraws from... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted September 21, 2005 12:55 AM
A sampling of starters for the day... ♦ Simon Wiesenthal died in Vienna at age 96, the center on Pico Boulevard announced. Standing ovations in every temple in L.A. on Friday... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted September 20, 2005 1:54 AM
The Business, which airs in about thirty minutes from now on KCRW (every Monday at 2:30 pm), is going national. It will be sent to affiliates of National Public Radio... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted September 19, 2005 1:59 PM
♦ In today's New York Times, Dennis McDougal reports that the Writers Guild is sitting on millions of dollars owed to writers it can't find—no-names like Tom Clancy, Mira Nair and... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted September 19, 2005 12:53 AM
So you have a new magazine about legal eagles and you want them to read it. What do you do first? How about a special issue proclaiming the 500 best... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted September 15, 2005 2:49 AM
Looks like Gov. Schwarzenegger announces Friday that he will run for reelection, the Times says. Also, La Opinión says its reporter was denied entry to the governor's recent community meeting... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted September 15, 2005 1:26 AM
That's always interesting, whether you agree with him or not. Jeff Weiss of the San Fernando Valley Business Journal sits down this issue for a Q-and-A with the new editor... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted September 14, 2005 8:22 PM
Expect an announcement today from Times publisher Jeff Johnson that Michael Kinsley has been formally replaced as Editorial and Opinion Editor. The editorial page, Op-Ed and Current will report to... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted September 13, 2005 2:58 AM
Nick Madigan, who recently left a contract gig with the New York Times L.A. bureau to become the media reporter for the Baltimore Sun, will join the KCRW afternoon lineup... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted September 12, 2005 8:15 PM
On your City Hall press corps lineup card, delete Ryan Oliver from the L.A. Daily Journal. He's going to the criminal courts beat. Add Erin Park, who used to staff... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted September 12, 2005 5:33 PM
Turnover seems to be fairly constant in the small L.A. Business Journal newsroom, by most accounts a challenging place to work. The latest movement involves James Nash, hired out of... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted September 12, 2005 12:58 PM
Remember when tabloid publisher David Pecker claimed his rags didn't go easy on candidate Schwarzenegger just because they were in business together? Turns out he also "didn't" try to hush... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted September 12, 2005 1:30 AM
Call it as you see it. In her LA Weekly column about the highs and lows of Katrina coverage, Nikki Finke wrote of Fox News' Bill O'Reilly: FNC's Bill O'Reilly,... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted September 9, 2005 11:34 AM
Southern California writers dominate the books section in the current issue of The Nation. In fact, they write the whole thing. David L. Ulin, recently named Book Editor of the... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted September 8, 2005 11:59 AM
Screenwriter Tom Benedek shoots his own unproduced scripts—literally, with a .45-caliber pistol—and mounts them as art. His exhibition "Shot by the Writer - Works on Paper: 1982-2004" opens this month... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted September 7, 2005 2:15 AM
Gail Diane Cox used to be the Los Angeles bureau chief for the National Law Journal. She also had worked for KPFK, and was living in Forest Falls in the... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted September 7, 2005 1:47 AM
The Times' Robin Abcarian sends Variety's Army Archerd into columnist retirement with a piece in today's Calendar. It opens during the Friday lunch scene on the patio at Spago. Robert... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted September 6, 2005 10:28 AM
Summer isn't really over, it just feels that way. Some Katrina links: Los Angeles blacks feel New Orleans' pain...LAist found a server at Swingers who did her part... la.foodblogging on... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted September 6, 2005 2:45 AM
Some appetizers: Marc Cooper of the LA Weekly and the Nation will be the guest host on KCRW's Left, Right and Center, today at 2:30 and 7 p.m. It's his... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted September 2, 2005 1:04 AM
Dodger Thoughts blogger Jon Weisman got up this morning and realized that the Milton Bradley incident nicely summarizes why he quit being a sportswriter at the Daily News and went... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted August 31, 2005 1:18 PM
A little morning briefing... Brian Cullen, the suspected killer of model Iryna Singerman, was found dead in a Tijuana motel room. Authorities say he killed himself with a bullet to... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted August 31, 2005 2:18 AM
The reporter noted for her Michael Jackson coverage emailed a fan club that she was dropped by Court TV last week. Here's an excerpt of the message, which is posted... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted August 29, 2005 11:05 AM
KCAL and KTTV each won nine local Emmy Awards on Saturday night. Among the top honors, KCBS won for best daytime newscast ("CBS2 News" at 6 a.m.) and best daily... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted August 29, 2005 1:22 AM
* Late adds pinned to the end... This one is a week old, but I don't care. Enjoy the L.A. River as you've probably not appreciated it before, through a... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted August 27, 2005 2:24 PM
That's Daily News sports columnist Tom Hoffarth in the photo, taking a parachute jump with an instructor at Lake Perris. It's front and center on the DN website this morning.... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted August 25, 2005 2:43 AM
The New York Times' most gonzo Los Angeles correspondent hasn't had a byline in the paper since April 14, prompting colleagues, rivals and competitors to wonder: where he at? Turns... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted August 24, 2005 5:13 PM
David Kipen, the Malibu-dwelling book critic for the San Francisco Chronicle, is the new Director of Literature at the National Endowment for the Arts. Here's how the release explains it:... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted August 24, 2005 1:36 PM
The Michael Kinsley-to-Atlantic Monthly rumors are raised then dismissed in today's New York Observer. He had breakfast in Seattle with the magazine's owner, David Bradley, who is busily recruiting an... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted August 24, 2005 11:41 AM
The former ABC News reporter who worked closely with Chief William Bratton in New York and followed him to the LAPD is leaving for Washington. Miller, who has been the... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted August 24, 2005 1:36 AM
Melissa Lalum was named today as the new managing editor of the Daily News. A nice round of applause greeted her introduction in the newsroom, I'm told. Lalum has been... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted August 23, 2005 8:32 PM
I confess I haven't been monitoring all of the media buzz, so the first name I've seen given to the Menace of Machado Lake comes from Dan Glaister, L.A. correspondent... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted August 19, 2005 11:40 AM
Gawker has the memo: Elizabeth Leonard, the deputy bureau chief in the Wilshire Boulevard offices of People magazine, has been quickly promoted to West Coast Bureau Chief. The only mention... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted August 18, 2005 6:19 PM
Amy Argetsinger, who has been out here on temporary assignment in the Washington Post L.A. bureau, was named today as one of the paper's two Reliable Source writers. She tells... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted August 17, 2005 3:38 PM
Time magazine's cover this week unveils its take on the "25 Most Influential Hispanics in America." Locals meriting mini-bios include Antonio Villaraigosa, of course (looking uncharacteristically sullen in the photograph),... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted August 16, 2005 12:45 AM
Go figure: Two-plus years of L.A. Observed with no references to People magazine West Coast Bureau Chief Todd Gold, then two mentions in less than twenty-four hours. Here's the first,... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted August 15, 2005 11:12 PM
Friends and family of the late Times media and food critic David Shaw celebrated his life Sunday at Stephen S. Wise Temple. Times film critic Kenneth Turan led the event,... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted August 15, 2005 9:39 PM
Sounds like there are a ton of insider references in Hollywood Hussein, the new novel by Ken Baker, West Coast editor for Us Weekly. Monday's Page Six says that the... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted August 14, 2005 11:25 PM
* Newest at the bottom Will Campbell blogs revealingly about the anticipation of meeting his estranged 15-year-daughter for the first time in five years. She happened to pick a Chili's... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted August 14, 2005 12:54 PM
The last radio station to be located in Hollywood leaves Friday at 11:05 p.m., Bob Pool says in the LAT. All the high-profile ankling from The Firm, the once-hot Hollywood... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted August 11, 2005 1:32 AM
Still catching up to the backlog... CityBeat's current "Real. Best. LA" theme issue is the largest yet at 108 pages. Fun tidbits include the revelation that some King Tut treasures... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted August 9, 2005 1:41 AM
KFI's Eric Leonard reported Wednesday afternoon that the LAPD's John Miller has been offered an FBI job. Miller was on vacation and unavailable to comment, but a department spokesman later... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted August 4, 2005 12:00 AM
Not just a semi-vacation week, but a travel day too. The New York Times catches up on David Shaw, General Motors and the Getty probe. Author and former LAT Book... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted August 3, 2005 12:35 AM
David Shaw won the Pulitzer prize for his media reporting in the L.A. Times. He died tonight of complications from a brain tumor that was first discovered in May. His... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted August 1, 2005 9:47 PM
This is going to be a light mid-summer week for me. But here's something to get you started. The hoary old Olympic Auditorium—excuse me, the Grand Olympic—has been sold to... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted August 1, 2005 1:50 AM
Getting an early start on the weekend. It is summer, you know—and I've already posted ten times today. As new shorts are added, they will be appended to the bottom.... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted July 29, 2005 5:19 PM
* Newest additions at the bottom... Now that's a book party venue. Simon & Schuster threw Sunday's launch reception for Thomas Greanias' Raising Atlantis on the front lawn of the... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted July 24, 2005 6:21 PM
This week's light posting has been due to me being out and around on assignment. It's likely to continue today. Late shorties will be tacked on to the tail end.... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted July 22, 2005 12:39 AM
The Daily News lost Sports Editor Michael Anastasi to the Salt Lake Tribune not too long ago and now is losing another his successor. Doug Jacobs is leaving to be... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted July 18, 2005 4:15 PM
Late entries are tacked on to the end... Wonkette Ana Marie Cox comes to town Tuesday to chat at 7 p.m. with Mickey Kaus at the Central Library. It's part... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted July 15, 2005 3:37 PM
Geez, you try to skate by for a few hours and stuff starts to pile up in the in-box... Former Burbank mayor and current city councilwoman Stacey Jo Murphy was... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted July 14, 2005 5:43 PM
About calling 911, hospital ERs and extreme pain.... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted July 8, 2005 12:56 AM
Any late-comers will go at the bottom, as usual. Gustavo Arellano rates the new crop of Latino-oriented glossies in the OC Weekly. He gives Bello the edge over Tu Ciudad,... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted July 5, 2005 11:28 AM
In response to Ken Reich's blog rant last week about the low turnout of Times people at a Little Tokyo event for the Frank del Olmo Legacy Lecture Series, the... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted June 28, 2005 2:04 AM
When they weren't invited some years ago to join Steve Wasserman's Institute for the Humanities (which some members call The Geniuses), journos Mickey Kaus and Ann Louise Bardach countered by... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted June 26, 2005 9:14 PM
Big ink for KCRW's Nic Harcourt in the NYT Magazine, where Jaime Wolf anoints him "The Star Maker of the Semipopular"...The NYT also does a feature on Christians in Hollywood... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted June 26, 2005 12:25 PM
Hollywood freelancer (for the New York Times and others) Ross Johnson has fallen into the blogging web. And for his first meaty entry at The Ross Files, he names names... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted June 23, 2005 10:23 AM
Nikki Finke says in the LA Weekly that Anita Busch, the former Hollywood Reporter editor and writer for the LAT and NYT who was threatened over pursuing a story on... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted June 22, 2005 11:42 PM
Mondays are always so busy... This news won't help the layoff jitters sweeping the LAT's newsrooms this week. Tribune Company stock was downgraded Monday to "neutral" from "buy" by brokerage... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted June 20, 2005 8:08 PM
Change is coming to the third floor press rooms. At the City News Service desk, Art Marroquin is coming up from San Diego to take over for Erin Park, who... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted June 20, 2005 2:50 AM
It has been a while now, but some might remember when then-Times reporter Anita Busch was threatened in 2002 over a story she was pursuing on actor Steven Seagal and... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted June 17, 2005 5:52 PM
Mayor-elect Antonio Villaraigosa took the official oath privately in his office, with Corina and children Antonio Jr. and Natalia Fe attending. It doesn't take effect until July 1, of course.... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted June 17, 2005 2:11 AM
Times feature writer Roy Rivenburg is going legit, transferring to the Metro staff in Orange County. Writes Style editor Rich Nordwind, in a memo to the staff today: "The O.C.... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted June 14, 2005 5:40 PM
Howard Kurtz's column this week in the Washington Post visits with Stephanie Miller, the L.A.-based host for Air America, the talk radio-for-liberals service. As recently as 2000, Miller hosted a... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted June 14, 2005 12:14 AM
* Never fails. Something new comes in every time I post one of these shorts lists. Fresh shorties at the bottom. The Times live-blogged the runup to the Michael Jackson... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted June 13, 2005 3:59 PM
The quote is how Tijuana journalist Jesus Blancornelas began his remarks last night at the 47th annual Southern California Journalism Awards. He accepted the L.A. Press Club's Daniel Pearl award... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted June 12, 2005 12:58 AM
It has been one of those shorty kind of days... The westbound lanes of the Century Freeway were shut down for two hours this afternoon to investigate another shooting. The... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted June 9, 2005 5:11 PM
In this week's Downtown News, Jay Berman looks back at the story of legendary Los Angeles lawyer Joseph Scott. He arrived in town in 1893 and practiced law here for... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted June 6, 2005 2:40 PM
The 47th annual Southern California Journalism Awards have come on as a sponsor of L.A. Observed. That wouldn't necessarily merit an item on the blog, but there's a story percolating... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted June 6, 2005 12:16 PM
Over at the Huffington Post, former L.A. television news anchor (now actress, production exec and blogger) Bree Walker takes a shot at ex-husband (and likewise ex-anchor) Jim Lampley. Maybe. It... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted June 5, 2005 12:37 AM
An evolving post, with the newest items at the bottom: If true, this will open up some movement in local politics. According to email from a senior staffer at City... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted June 4, 2005 5:08 PM
Bob Hertzberg, chairman of the Villaraigosa transition team, will be on KPCC's Talk of the City Friday at 2 p.m. with guest host Jon Beaupre. Mayor-elect Villaraigosa has signed on... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted June 2, 2005 5:55 PM
Sean Bonner at blogging.la discovers a parking meter scam run by street people in the toy district downtown. Tim McGarry, a frequent commenter on L.A. blogs (and here when I... $