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Topic Archive: Newspapers
I never know what to really make of this data, but Scarborough Research has released its 2008 Newspaper Audience Ratings Report. It aims to estimate,...
Posted May 9, 2008 01:31 AM
Yesterday's story in the Daily News about a Valley church that contributed money for the L.A. Archdiocese's sexual abuse settlement contained a line that made...
Posted May 1, 2008 11:29 AM
It wasn't just the Daily News that failed to come out in full this morning. All the Singleton papers except for the Breeze and Press-Telegram...
Posted May 1, 2008 10:42 AM
The toll of yesterday's newsroom cuts at the Orange County Register includes the sports editor and travel editor, a deputy editor and a design editor,...
Posted April 29, 2008 02:56 PM
Today's slash of 80-90 employees, or 5% of the staff, is the third round of layoffs in a year at the Register's parent. Declining advertising...
Posted April 28, 2008 05:28 PM
The trade paper unveiled "a wholesale overhaul of its iconic brand," and it goes beyond just the design. Here's how The Hollywood Reporter itself explains...
Posted April 28, 2008 09:13 AM
We're mentioned in the latest memo from Daily News online editor Ryan Garfat....
Posted April 23, 2008 11:44 PM
Gary Scott, formerly at the San Gabriel Valley Tribune and Daily Journal and now on the staff of Warren Olney's "Which Way, L.A.?" and "To...
Posted April 22, 2008 01:50 PM
From ex-editor Ron Kaye's new blog: In my mind, it's time for people to make a stand for what they believe in, to act like...
Posted April 17, 2008 11:24 PM
From AngryJournalist.com Angry Journalist #4033: Editor and Publisher reports that newspaper industry poohbahs gathered in Washington last night (April 14) for their annual conference. The...
Posted April 16, 2008 01:05 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...
Posted April 9, 2008 09:36 PM
Word out of the Los Angeles Daily Journal newsroom is that the legal paper lopped off its copy desk last night — the whole thing....
Posted April 9, 2008 11:29 AM
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...
Posted April 7, 2008 11:34 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...
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...
Posted April 4, 2008 06:20 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...
Posted April 4, 2008 04:49 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....
Posted April 3, 2008 04:24 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....
Posted April 3, 2008 02:31 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,...
Posted April 2, 2008 10:35 PM
From the South Bay Daily Breeze: Correction about concert I am grateful for the very kind words by letter writer Rosemarie Persek ("SP event was...
Posted March 26, 2008 01:12 AM
Borrowing a page from Frank Girardot in the San Gabriel Valley Tribune, adopted sister paper the Daily Breeze has launched its own crime scene blog....
Posted March 25, 2008 11:50 PM
Lee Abrams hasn't started yet, but writes another memo in which he gets all enthused thinking of original ideas...that newspaper and TV editors and website...
Posted March 25, 2008 02:16 PM
Two Long Beach city council members marched with Press-Telegram workers outside the beleaguered newspaper's offices yesterday. P-T, LB Report Also in Long Beach: Surgeons say...
Posted March 25, 2008 09:24 AM
Writing as an alum of the Long Beach Press-Telegram, author and journalist Dennis McDougal bemoans the paper's downgrade in a Sunday Opinion piece for the...
Posted March 23, 2008 10:31 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...
Posted March 19, 2008 11:57 PM
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...
Posted March 16, 2008 04:25 PM
Mark Cuban, the Dallas Mavericks owner and media-savvy blogger, writes that the rush by respected publishers to re-brand their content as coming from bloggers "is...
Posted March 13, 2008 04:32 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...
Posted March 13, 2008 09:21 AM
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...
Posted March 11, 2008 06:11 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...
Posted March 11, 2008 10:59 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...
Posted March 8, 2008 04:48 PM
Staffers at the San Gabriel Valley Tribune, already reeling from firings yesterday, have been told to show up today: "Please arrange your schedule to meet...
Posted March 7, 2008 10:46 AM
An editorial in today's Long Beach Press-Telegram admits to challenges ahead, but says some of the fears about the paper's future have been overblown. Excerpt:...
Posted March 7, 2008 09:25 AM
After losing four sports staffers last week at the Daily News, the sports editor who doubles as writer of the paper's successful Kings blog had...
Posted March 6, 2008 10:38 PM
Ten newsroom positions will be eliminated from Pasadena to Whittier "before the day is out," says ex-staffer Gary Scott at his blog. Other departments are...
Posted March 6, 2008 03:28 PM
Long Beach resident and LA Observed reader Ron Schweitzer sent a letter to the Press-Telegram explaining why the latest cuts there pushed him into becoming...
Posted March 6, 2008 12:27 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...
Posted March 6, 2008 12:10 PM
The Bay Guardian won its predatory pricing lawsuit against the SF Weekly, receiving about $15 million in trebled damages. Longtime BAG owner Bruce Brugmann had...
Posted March 5, 2008 05:52 PM
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....
Posted March 5, 2008 01:02 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...
Posted March 3, 2008 08:41 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...
Posted March 3, 2008 02:16 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...
Posted March 2, 2008 07:51 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...
Posted March 2, 2008 02:13 PM
The newspaper based in Monterey Park was hit with damages, penalties and interest in the class-action suit won by reporters and other staffers last year....
Posted March 2, 2008 01:53 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...
Posted February 29, 2008 02:59 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...
Posted February 29, 2008 12:35 PM
Staffers who contacted me say nine positions at the Singleton-owned Daily Breeze were eliminated today, including four reporters, a web editor and a newsroom receptionist...
Posted February 28, 2008 11:20 PM
Tonight on The Paper Trail, the blog by Daily News reporter and union steward Brent Hopkins: In the morning and again in the afternoon, Kerry...
Posted February 28, 2008 10:49 PM
I've been hearing today from graduates of the Daily News who are concerned about the scythe being taken to what remains of the paper where...
Posted February 28, 2008 04:58 PM
Everyone I talked with agrees. And the actual layoffs won't be announced until Friday. Editor Ron Kaye gathered everybody around this afternoon, said he was...
Posted February 27, 2008 10:33 PM
Amid signs that the severest cuts yet are coming this week at the Daily News, tonight's latest word to the newsroom staff from union steward...
Posted February 26, 2008 09:43 PM
Nick Schou* thinks so and posts some intriguing evidence from a Singleton paper up north — how about a joint Media News Staff byline that...
Posted February 26, 2008 11:06 AM
All newsrooms are skittish these days, but the atmosphere at the Daily News today sounds beyond morose. Staffers are gathering tomorrow night at the home...
Posted February 19, 2008 04:21 PM
L.A. Now has gone live on LA Times.com, with posts on the news and the region from the recently hired Veronique de Turenne (yes, that...
Posted February 14, 2008 12:53 AM
Terry Horne writes on the Orange County paper's blog that he's sorry so many readers are unhappy with recent changes in format and coverage, but...
Posted February 5, 2008 08:10 AM
La Opinión confirmed the paper will endorse a Democratic and Republican candidate in tomorrow's edition, CandidatoUSA reports. The endorsement, first in the paper's history for...
Posted February 1, 2008 04:59 PM
"Rewriting someone else's stories is one thing. Simply stealing them word for word is another," writes Lawrence Wilson, public editor of the San Gabriel Valley...
Posted January 31, 2008 08:39 AM
Manuel Bogran of Inglewood died when he was pinned between his car and a parked car while delivering the Daily Breeze near Hawthorne this morning....
Posted January 25, 2008 04:37 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...
Posted January 22, 2008 05:17 PM
I'm trying to keep a holiday schedule today to work on some website improvements, but there's also newspaper news from the Register in Orange County....
Posted January 21, 2008 11:43 AM
Back when there were newspaper wars between the L.A. Times and the Daily News (over the Valley), the Times and Register (over Orange County), and...
Posted January 17, 2008 11:22 AM
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...
Posted January 17, 2008 12:11 AM
Another round of layoffs hits in Orange County, on top of the cancelled Christmas party and gutted 401-k contributions. Nick Schou at the OC Weekly...
Posted January 8, 2008 02:55 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....
Posted January 4, 2008 11:59 AM
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 —...
Posted December 31, 2007 01:11 PM
Following the lead of sister paper the Daily News, the San Bernardino Sun and Inland Valley Daily-Bulletin got hold of the salaries of county workers...
Posted December 13, 2007 08:18 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...
Posted December 13, 2007 11:57 AM
The Signal in Santa Clarita on Wednesday published a column and accompanying editorial cartoon skewering the manipulation of faith and politics. After some readers complained...
Posted November 29, 2007 09:36 AM
After posting Wednesday's item about the newspaper that couldn't decide if it was the Los Angeles Sun or the Los Angeles Star, I heard from...
Posted November 2, 2007 12:09 AM
The Craigslist posting is looking for recent college grads and interns — code words for low to no pay. Worse, the ad can't decide if...
Posted October 31, 2007 09:05 PM
Rich Archibold, editor of the Long Beach Press-Telegram, announces the advent of the pages that his paper will now share with the Daily News in...
Posted October 30, 2007 12:09 AM
The paper has been reorganized a bit. Stock tables are out, and there are new common pages to be shared among other papers in the...
Posted October 29, 2007 12:22 AM
Editor's note from Ron Kaye at the Daily News website blames the delivery glitch partly on the Santa Clarita fire: To our readers: Due to...
Posted October 22, 2007 08:10 AM
Dean Singleton, the biggest owner of newspapers in the L.A. area, has sent his employees an eight-page status report on the health of the industry...
Posted October 18, 2007 09:25 AM
On the same day that the Daily News unveils a newly designed website, the comic strip Funky Winkerbean kills off main character Lisa Moore with...
Posted October 4, 2007 09:04 AM
Wendy McCaw finally took the witness stand to defend her reign of error over the Santa Barbara News Press. She contended that two veteran reporters...
Posted September 25, 2007 11:05 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...
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...
Posted September 11, 2007 11:21 AM
Talk about culture shock. The LA Weekly is leaving its longtime physical and spiritual home on Sunset Boulevard in the heart of Hollywood for a...
Posted September 10, 2007 01:21 AM
The National Labor Relations Board unanimously rejected a challenge by owners of the Santa Barbara News-Press and ruled that the union vote by newsroom staffers...
Posted August 19, 2007 08:56 AM
Rumors circulating in the L.A. Newspaper Group newsrooms talk of the papers and their staffs eventually being mashed into one universal operation with cookie-cutter front...
Posted August 15, 2007 11:12 PM
Now I see better why Rich Kane returned to the OC Weekly as managing editor. Two years ago, he predicted the newly launched OCSqueeze would...
Posted August 14, 2007 04:32 PM
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...
Posted August 9, 2007 05:59 PM
There's some chuckling going on in Singleton newsrooms over the front page of Tuesday's Wednesday's sports section in the San Gabriel Newspaper Group papers, San...
Posted August 9, 2007 11:07 AM
Anyone who has watched the regular KOCE reports from the Register newsroom in Orange County knows it's hard enough to get print schlubs to give...
Posted August 7, 2007 05:25 PM
The copy desk for the San Gabriel Valley Newspaper group in the LANG empire — that's the San Gabriel Valley Tribune, Pasadena Star-News and I...
Posted August 6, 2007 11:01 AM
The boss announces firings in the Orange County Register's "content center" and asks people not to compile lists of the departing. Memo below. Question: They...
Posted August 2, 2007 03:23 PM
Zone coverage of the Santa Clarita and Antelope Valley will be eliminated, with resulting job losses via buyouts. The MediaNews bean counters have managed to...
Posted July 31, 2007 11:38 PM
Editor Ron Kaye is still apologizing for cutting some comics beloved by the Daily News' declining (and apparently aging, based on their choice of comics)...
Posted July 28, 2007 11:24 PM
One of the writers at the San Pedro blog Life on the Edge details some of the withering away occurring at the South Bay Daily...
Posted July 25, 2007 01:10 PM
The cover of Sunday's Viewpoint section in the Daily News is a full-page color illustration showing a naked and grinning Antonio Villaraigosa, fig leaf strategically...
Posted July 22, 2007 10:57 PM
When will newspaper editors get it? If you cut comics, readers scream — always. Sometimes by the thousands, costing you more in goodwill and circulation...
Posted July 22, 2007 12:37 AM
The union-backed project employing eight former reporters at the Santa Barbara News-Press to cover local news didn't make it. The staff posted a note saying...
Posted July 18, 2007 08:41 AM
There's an agreement in principle for Rupert Murdoch to buy Dow Jones for $5 billion, but the Bancroft family's approval is still too close to...
Posted July 17, 2007 08:05 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...
Posted July 16, 2007 11:55 PM
Chris Weinkopf at the Daily News opinion blog gets Cardinal Roger Mahony on the phone. Sample: I pressed him further: What is he taking responsibility...
Posted July 16, 2007 03:59 PM
The Tribune begins them soon too, and there the memo trying to convince everybody that readers really want them comes from the publishing group president....
Posted July 16, 2007 02:41 PM
The new chain-ified print version of LA.com will run in the Daily News, Daily Breeze, Press Telegram and other papers in the group, says Laura...
Posted July 12, 2007 09:10 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...
Posted July 8, 2007 10:54 AM
Greg Hernandez writes the only mainstream media blog in town (that I know of) devoted to gay Hollywood. His Out in Hollywood on the Daily...
Posted July 2, 2007 12:25 PM
This week's LA Weekly letters page is more interesting than usual. Aside from the reader feedback there's a box announcing "an immediate opening for a...
Posted July 1, 2007 10:45 PM
The Nation's Jon Wiener commiserates this week over the LA Weekly becoming less international, lefty and political. It's the other media takeover story in Los...
Posted June 28, 2007 09:00 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...
Posted June 27, 2007 02:10 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...
Posted June 27, 2007 08:40 AM
A David Hockney color offset lithograph, Untitled (Two Apples and a Lemon), that was a free insert in the Herald Examiner decades ago sold at...
Posted June 26, 2007 10:47 AM
Remember all the free publicity that obscure weekly Pasadena Now got for saying it would out-source local reporting jobs to India? Well, now the paper...
Posted June 21, 2007 12:06 PM
The LA Weekly brought home seven first place ribbons from the Association of Alternative Newsweeklies awards — best cartoon, column, photography, special section, website design,...
Posted June 18, 2007 08:44 AM
Philip Anschutz could import his Examiner chain of local give-away newspapers to Los Angeles by the end of the year, according to Media Life, citing...
Posted June 13, 2007 08:38 AM
Ed Moss, the new publisher of the Daily News, arrives after spending just ten months at the Akron Beacon Journal — and slashing the workforce...
Posted June 11, 2007 09:03 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....
Posted June 11, 2007 01:17 PM
Back in 2005 the Inland Valley Daily Bulletin retracted a statement about former NFL star Bo Jackson and steroids. It wasn't enough. This weekend on...
Posted June 10, 2007 06:28 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...
Posted June 7, 2007 01:31 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...
Posted June 7, 2007 08:41 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...
Posted June 6, 2007 03:01 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...
Posted June 5, 2007 10:57 AM
Four Daily News reporters — Jason Kandel, Brent Hopkins, Rick Coca and Rachel Uranga — are contributing items to It's a Crime, with a Valley...
Posted May 23, 2007 08:40 AM
Nikki Finke, apparently a main generator of traffic to LA Weekly's website, seems a mite upset that today's issue credits David Poland's Movie City News...
Posted May 10, 2007 02:03 PM
Just to finish the thought from yesterday, Daily News circulation dropped 7.3% from a year ago to 146,000. That's not good news in the already...
Posted May 1, 2007 08:51 AM
Not only did L.A. Times circulation take another hit today — down more than four percent — but Editor & Publisher named N. Christian Anderson...
Posted April 30, 2007 12:48 PM
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...
Posted April 26, 2007 10:53 PM
The Wall Street Journal and USA Today will report slight bumps up in circulation next week, but the Orange County Register will be down more...
Posted April 25, 2007 10:40 AM
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...
Posted April 22, 2007 04:12 PM
Couple of minor organizational twists were introduced today at LATimes.com. On the foreign page, a gathering of notes and observations from correspondents mostly in Latin...
Posted April 9, 2007 07:37 PM
LA Voice.org discovered that the abandoned pressroom at the Daily Breeze building in Torrance is full of marijuana plants. Relax — they're the fake variety...
Posted April 4, 2007 12:34 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...
Posted April 2, 2007 08:08 AM
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...
Posted March 20, 2007 10:50 PM
Word out of Orange County is that newsroom staffers at the Register have signed a letter protesting the posting of anonymous comments on the paper's...
Posted March 14, 2007 08:40 AM
The National Labor Relations Board plans to take action against Wendy McCaw's Santa Barbara News-Press for illegally firing seven staffers who backed the newsroom union...
Posted March 13, 2007 11:32 PM
Coverage in the Orange County Register of April Branum giving birth — she weighs 420 pounds and didn't realize she was pregnant — became the...
Posted March 13, 2007 09:32 AM
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...
Posted February 26, 2007 02:42 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...
Posted February 23, 2007 11:53 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...
Posted February 21, 2007 05:44 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...
Posted February 17, 2007 09:12 AM
An internal memo at the Santa Barbara News-Press lays out owner Wendy McCaw's version that everything that has happened to her paper — the mass...
Posted February 13, 2007 02:04 PM
On the same day that the editor was given a better parking spot in the Times garage, Hoy was forced to run a "to our...
Posted February 12, 2007 11:57 PM
Still salmon in color, but tabloid in form and with shorter thumb suckers. Here's a photo at Eat the Press....
Posted February 12, 2007 11:37 AM
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...
Posted February 6, 2007 10:57 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...
Posted January 30, 2007 08:45 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...
Posted January 25, 2007 03:48 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...
Posted January 24, 2007 04:28 PM
The Washington Post's Frank Ahrens looks into a Southern California tale of a disgruntled newspaper family selling to private equity buyers and the cutbacks that...
Posted January 16, 2007 01:21 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...
Posted January 11, 2007 12:59 PM
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...
Posted January 10, 2007 08:43 PM
The Los Angeles Newspaper Group has posted an opening for an executive sports editor to oversee the sports coverage at all nine papers in Southern...
Posted January 10, 2007 12:06 PM
The newly re-designed and re-conceived Wall Street Journal got a thoughtful review from Mark Lacter on Wednesday at LA Biz Observed. Today it's Tim Rutten's...
Posted January 6, 2007 09:18 AM
Time magazine credits convicted Washington lobbyist Jack Abramoff with one of the quotes of the year: "God sent me 1,000 hints that he didn't want...
Posted January 2, 2007 03:03 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...
Posted December 17, 2006 12:40 AM
The website immediately slows down to molasses. Hearst's purchase includes the Palos Verdes Peninsula News, The Beach Reporter and More San Pedro. Dean Singleton's MediaNews...
Posted December 15, 2006 11:25 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...
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...
Posted December 13, 2006 01:57 PM
Staffers at the South Bay Daily Breeze were previously told to switch to a new, post-Copley ownership timecard as of Sunday. That directive has been...
Posted December 8, 2006 05:43 PM
The South Bay Daily Breeze will fetch just $25 million and end up in the hands of Dean Singleton's MediaNews Group via an indirect route,...
Posted December 7, 2006 05:35 PM
No, not that wall: the whims of owner Wendy McCaw and her boyfriend still influence news coverage at the Santa Barbara News-Press. But outside the...
Posted November 27, 2006 05:52 PM
Daily News owner MediaNews and six other newspaper publishing groups, including Hearst and Belo, announced a new partnership with Yahoo on Sunday. The papers and...
Posted November 20, 2006 12:35 AM
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...
Posted November 17, 2006 11:16 AM
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...
Posted November 14, 2006 11:36 PM
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...
Posted November 2, 2006 01:44 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...
Posted November 2, 2006 01:13 AM
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...
Posted November 1, 2006 05:40 PM
A source outside the Los Angeles Newspaper Group who has been reliable before says the Daily News suffered a scarier circulation plunge than even the...
Posted October 31, 2006 09:15 AM
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...
Posted October 30, 2006 02:26 PM
Among big-city newspapers, only the Miami Herald (8.8%) lost a bigger percentage of its daily readers than the Los Angeles Times (8%) in today's new...
Posted October 30, 2006 11:14 AM
Is La Opinión spinning its coverage of the scare letter sent to Orange County Latinos by Republican congressional candidate Tan Nguyen? Gustavo Arellano of the...
Posted October 23, 2006 02:33 AM
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...
Posted October 18, 2006 01:56 PM
Brent Hopkins at the Daily News union blog says there was another meeting yesterday between editor Ron Kaye and executives at the parent Los Angeles...
Posted October 12, 2006 01:26 PM
Going into the weekend here is some follow through on the Times and Daily News situations: LAT petition: In an email to the newsroom, Times...
Posted October 7, 2006 09:59 AM
At the same time that Dean Singleton's MediaNews is said to be one of two potential buyers closing in on Copley's South Bay Daily Breeze,...
Posted October 6, 2006 11:53 AM
On the left, last week's Pasadena Weekly Best Of cover. On the right, this week's LA Weekly Best Of cover. Some see at least a...
Posted October 6, 2006 08:56 AM
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...
Posted September 29, 2006 06:33 PM
Remaining staffers at Wendy McCaw's Santa Barbara News-Press voted 33-6 to join the Graphics Communications Conference of the Teamsters Union. McCaw immediately attacked the Teamsters,...
Posted September 28, 2006 12:49 AM
Rather than just fade away after it ceases printing on Friday, the Los Angeles Alternative plans to keep hope alive by publishing on the web....
Posted September 27, 2006 07:34 PM
Another Los Angeles weekly paper bites the dust. This week's L.A. Alternative will be the final issue. In print form anyway. The letter to writers...
Posted September 26, 2006 01:49 PM
La Opinión and the Huntington Library announced today that the newspaper's archives are moving to San Marino. Photographs, newspapers, memorabilia, awards and original documents from...
Posted September 13, 2006 01:12 PM
On the same day that Time Inc. announced it will try to sell eighteen magazines — including Popular Science, Field & Stream, Outdoor Life and...
Posted September 12, 2006 02:32 PM
Journalists at the Santa Barbara News-Press are holding another press conference outside the newspaper today, this time to complain that eleven staffers have been suspended...
Posted September 5, 2006 10:11 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...
Posted August 31, 2006 04:46 PM
Southland Publishing, which owns L.A. CityBeat, ValleyBeat, Pasadena Weekly and the Ventura County Reporter, acquired the relatively new Inland Empire Weekly. Publisher Jeremy Zachary, editor...
Posted August 30, 2006 05:30 PM
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...
Posted August 11, 2006 12:08 PM
The fifteen "InsideSoCal" staff blogs fed mostly out of the newsroom in Woodland Hills — and the absorption of LA.com — were just the beginning...
Posted August 10, 2006 12:11 PM
I was burrowing through the LA Observed archives and came across this Correction o' the Week from 2005 and thought it deserved renomination for the...
Posted August 3, 2006 12:50 PM
Each of the local billionaire media moguls-in-waiting — Eli Broad, David Geffen and Ron Burkle — sent separate letters to the Tribune Company board this...
Posted July 29, 2006 11:22 AM
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...
Posted July 25, 2006 04:25 PM
The OC Post launches Aug. 21 as a six-day, full-color home-delivered tabloid that will feature many of the stories and columns that run in the...
Posted July 25, 2006 12:44 PM
Sam Singer, the San Francisco PR attache for Wendy McCaw and the Santa Barbara News-Press, is described as "resigning" — and won't say why —...
Posted July 19, 2006 12:32 PM
On his Angry Poodle blog at the Santa Barbara Independent, Nick Welsh breaks the news that ex-News-Press columnist Barney Brantingham has been served with a...
Posted July 15, 2006 01:22 PM
From Associated Press and Yahoo in the post below....
Posted July 14, 2006 03:21 PM
At today's demonstration and rally outside the Santa Barbara News-Press offices, I'm told that most of the paper's reporters many newsroom staffers including several reporters...
Posted July 14, 2006 02:21 PM
It was a big news day around the Santa Barbara News-Press situation. Here is some of what I've confirmed tonight: Star investigative reporter Scott Hadly...
Posted July 13, 2006 10:16 PM
The News-Press has posted openings for reporters, design editor, business editor and assistant city editor on JournalismJobs.com. The biz editor needs two whole years of...
Posted July 13, 2006 12:07 PM
Top jobs are still open, but the acting publisher whose DUI case was ordered covered up promoted three editors from within and named a "contributing...
Posted July 11, 2006 09:59 AM
Steve Greenberg in the Ventura County Star nails the Santa Barbara News-Press situation. Link. Up on State Street, meanwhile, sports editor Gerry Spratt has also...
Posted July 8, 2006 02:59 PM
Heiress Wendy McCaw bought the Santa Barbara News-Press in 2000 and for the past few months has outraged her editors and reporters with demands that...
Posted July 6, 2006 02:40 PM
Copley Press Inc. of San Diego says it is "exploring strategic alternatives" that could include selling the Daily Breeze, Palos Verdes Peninsula News and The...
Posted June 29, 2006 02:24 PM
CityBeat and its parent company, Southland Publishing, are moving on up. Southland closed escrow on the gorgeous former Security-First National Bank of Los Angeles branch...
Posted June 21, 2006 01:05 PM
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...
Posted June 16, 2006 10:21 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...
Posted June 15, 2006 05:45 PM
Mariel Garza has moved her observations about riding the bus from her personal blog onto a sanctioned Daily News spot. Steve Rosenberg, a copy editor...
Posted June 15, 2006 02:10 PM
Dean Singleton's MediaNews Group gets the San Jose Mercury News and Contra Costa Times. In a complicated arrangement, Hearst buys the Monterey Herald (and the...
Posted April 26, 2006 03:53 PM
Editor Charles Crumpley has started reading highlights of the coming week's Los Angeles Business Journal. In the issue dated April 24 are stories on, among...
Posted April 21, 2006 08:01 PM
Perhaps there was something to the John Carroll effect. In the first year that the Pulitzer-board favorite is not editor of the Los Angeles Times,...
Posted April 17, 2006 12:37 PM
Human resources honchos at the Daily News don't have a grasp on how newsrooms work. They memoed the staff that a new time card would...
Posted April 11, 2006 01:04 AM
Looks as if the Daily News and its sister papers have quietly launched Hollywood Babble On, "where our film, music, TV and Hollywood critics dish...
Posted March 28, 2006 11:23 AM
La Opinión is touting an exclusive interview about immigration with President Bush. Senior correspondent Maribel Hastings conducted the interview this morning but the paper won't...
Posted March 27, 2006 02:17 PM
Redesign of the Bakersfield Californian is critiqued pro and con at Newsdesigners.com, and apparently has begun to move the needle on circulation....
Posted March 21, 2006 10:26 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....
Posted March 15, 2006 12:46 AM
This will get noticed over at the LA Weekly. Gawker says the new owners fired Village Voice acting editor-in-chief Doug Simmons, but are keeping Nick...
Posted March 14, 2006 11:30 AM
Village Voice Media maximum editor Michael Lacey talked to Boston's The Phoenix about what the New Times takeover will mean at the Village Voice—and, I...
Posted February 16, 2006 11:09 AM
Holdovers at all the Village Voice Media papers—LA Weekly included—received a friendly but not especially enlightening Sunday night greeting from their new keeper. From: Larkin,...
Posted January 29, 2006 11:29 PM
Attention LA and OC: New Times has begun the New York end of its takeover, installing a new publisher at the Village Voice. Michael Cohen...
Posted January 25, 2006 09:34 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...
Posted January 18, 2006 01:34 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...
Posted January 18, 2006 12:29 PM
Here's a letter to the editor in the latest Fortune magazine, posted on the website Online News Squared: Could Craigslist turn newspaper classifieds to ashes?...
Posted January 18, 2006 11:23 AM
A "large metro paper located on the West Coast" has retained the headhunting firm Black Leopard to find an editorial writer who fits certain criteria....
Posted January 16, 2006 05:50 PM
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...
Posted January 16, 2006 02:29 AM
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...
Posted January 12, 2006 02:24 AM
Execs at La Opinión sent over word that their owner, ImpreMedia, has acquired the #1 Spanish-language paper in the Bay Area, El Mensajero. Already the...
Posted December 16, 2005 03:46 PM
Scott Martelle writes that for staffers at the LA Weekly, the coming regime change "is like being eaten by a monster they thought they had...
Posted December 14, 2005 11:15 AM
Although I link every day to the front page of La Opinión (and have had a standing link to the paper's website since day one),...
Posted December 11, 2005 11:55 PM
The gambling issue. Sample lede: "Like so many young women before me, I had trekked to Las Vegas to hand out free T-shirts at a...
Posted December 8, 2005 12:05 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...
Posted December 6, 2005 03:48 PM
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...
Posted December 5, 2005 02:45 PM
LA Weekly Deputy Editor Joe Donnelly had a pleasant enough interview with Mike Lacey, the New Times co-founder who will soon be in charge of...
Posted December 5, 2005 11:33 AM
The Daily News feature staff has started a blog called Red Carpet. It apparently began a test run last month with Fred Shuster posting from...
Posted December 2, 2005 03:25 AM
LA Weekly Publisher Beth Sestanovich told the staff this morning that the Justice Department gave the okay for New Times to acquire Village Voice Media,...
Posted November 28, 2005 10:39 AM
Like all big newspapers, the Washington Post is stumbling toward an uncertain future, online and off. One of its online experiments is a blog page...
Posted November 27, 2005 06:51 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...
Posted November 18, 2005 06:14 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...
Posted November 14, 2005 02:29 PM
New Times editorial chief Michael Lacey flew into John Wayne yesterday and spent several hours with staffers at the OC Weekly, one of the Village...
Posted November 11, 2005 11:53 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...
Posted November 10, 2005 11:59 PM
Former L.A. Times editor and reporter Bob Baker posts at his Newsthinking website that newspaper journalists shouldn't accept their obsolescence quietly. Excerpt: If newspapers are...
Posted November 9, 2005 04:12 PM
San Francisco Bay Guardian editor/publisher Bruce B. Brugmann is kicking his campaign against the New Times-Village Voice merger into higher gear. His paper is in...
Posted November 9, 2005 12:42 AM
That was the average weekday circulation for the six months that ended September 30, according to Editor and Publisher. The report from the Audit Bureau...
Posted November 7, 2005 10:54 AM
The Press-Telegram has sold its downtown Long Beach home of eighty years and will move next summer into a fourteenth-floor newsroom at Arco Center on...
Posted November 6, 2005 11:21 AM
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...
Posted October 28, 2005 03:35 PM
Cathy Seipp, writing at the National Review Online, says that New Times founder and executive editor Michael Lacey has never been famous for his tact....
Posted October 27, 2005 01:56 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...
Posted October 27, 2005 01:58 AM
Former New Times Los Angeles reviewer Luke Y. Thompson is optimistic that the return of NT through the LA Weekly will be good. He even...
Posted October 26, 2005 01:33 PM
Today's Daily News blows out the front page to list the names of the 2,000 U.S. military dead in Iraq. Here's the main story; the...
Posted October 26, 2005 12:31 PM
Marc Cooper is the first LA Weekly staffer (he is News Features Editor) to let loose with detailed thoughts on the coming marriage of the...
Posted October 26, 2005 02:55 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...
Posted October 25, 2005 01:09 PM
♦ "We're going to try to keep an open mind until we can see what will happen...there are definitely a range of reactions and emotions," LA...
Posted October 25, 2005 02:09 AM
New Times is out with a press release today on its merger with Village Voice Media. Excerpt: "Together, New Times and Village Voice Media create...
Posted October 24, 2005 01:22 PM
Michael Sigman spent nearly two decades at the LA Weekly, departing as president and publisher in 2002 when management at Village Voice Media decided to...
Posted October 24, 2005 10:54 AM
The New Times chain of weekly papers is taking over the Village Voice, LA Weekly, OC Weekly and three other papers to form a group...
Posted October 23, 2005 09:07 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...
Posted October 18, 2005 02:51 PM
USC has in its archives some precious copies of a noteworthy Spanish-language newspaper in Yankee Los Angeles. El Clamor Público began publishing in 1855, five...
Posted October 17, 2005 07:09 PM
The Wall Street Journal will trim the width of its pages by about one column to save $18 million a year in newsprint costs. The...
Posted October 11, 2005 10:56 AM
Mick Farren at CityBeat writes what a lot of writers and editors in the swirl of local alt weeklies think about the prospect of New...
Posted October 6, 2005 10:15 AM
♦ Marc Weingarten reports in today's New York Times on a bitter lawsuit here in L.A. between singer Leonard Cohen and the manager he says looted...
Posted October 6, 2005 01:54 AM
♦ The school board picked up Supt. Roy Romer's option for another year. ♦ The state medical board opened an investigation of the St. Vincent's physicians who...
Posted September 28, 2005 12:59 AM
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...
Posted September 25, 2005 12:22 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,...
Posted September 21, 2005 12:55 AM
Marc Haefele's cover profile of Controller Laura Chick in the current L.A. Alternative Press ("Control Freak") explains why reporters love Chick and her audits of...
Posted September 19, 2005 01:55 PM
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...
Posted September 15, 2005 02:49 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...
Posted September 14, 2005 08:22 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...
Posted September 12, 2005 12:58 PM
In this case, the competition was to see which of the trades would be first to get a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame....
Posted September 6, 2005 03:09 AM
If you've been watching the video from New Orleans and wondering why the city wasn't better prepared, consider this intro to a five-part "special report"...
Posted August 31, 2005 11:51 AM
Village Voice Media, which owns the LA Weekly among other papers, and New Times are in serious talks about merging to create a new 18-paper...
Posted August 30, 2005 11:05 AM
Did the LA Weekly try to muscle in as the sole media purveyor at this weekend's Sunset Junction street festival? A "media muckups" piece in...
Posted August 24, 2005 09:36 PM
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,...
Posted August 23, 2005 08:32 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...
Posted August 14, 2005 12:54 PM
CityBeat runs a piece on the frustrations of small newspapers like, well, CityBeat, over the city's coming newsrack ordinance. Every newspaper dispenser on the street...
Posted August 11, 2005 01:37 AM
We have another new Editor in town. Ron Kaye, longtime Managing Editor at the Daily News, got the top job this afternoon. Every Daily News...
Posted August 9, 2005 08:15 PM
No, Danny Bakewell is not stepping down from his duties at the helm of the Los Angeles Sentinel. But he is retiring at the end...
Posted August 4, 2005 12:18 AM
While I was traveling today, my in-box was filling up with the stunner that Dean Singleton acquired The Detroit News, converted it to a morning...
Posted August 3, 2005 11:49 PM
It will start up in the next few months and likely focus on local politics, an exec of the L.A. Newspaper Group tells James Nash...
Posted July 24, 2005 06:52 PM
Los Angeles County will pay $40,000 to settle a lawsuit over DA Steve Cooley's over-exuberant search of the Metropolitan News-Enterprise offices back in 2002. The...
Posted July 19, 2005 02:30 AM
The Observer has a new website design, new blogs and a new plan. Starting in August, it'll cost you a buck to read each week's...
Posted July 8, 2005 05:12 PM
Editor Mark Lacter's back-page columns have been missing from the L.A. Business Journal for awhile, but this week he returns with a front-page chide (under...
Posted July 5, 2005 07:23 PM
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...
Posted July 5, 2005 11:28 AM
L.A. Business Journal editor Mark Lacter gives the details on long-time political reporter Howard Fine's shift onto some new beats. His email also says that...
Posted June 27, 2005 12:37 PM
The LA Weekly picked up four first-place AltWeekly Awards, the most of any paper. From the release: The Los Angeles paper won not only for...
Posted June 20, 2005 03:35 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...
Posted June 14, 2005 05:40 PM
Two months or so after assistant managing editor Jonathan Diamond left to work for City Attorney Rocky Delgadillo, the L.A. Business Journal has clarified the...
Posted May 24, 2005 10:51 AM
In addition to editor Katrina Dewey, whose resignation letter was posted on L.A. Observed last Friday, four other veteran staffers are about to leave the...
Posted May 24, 2005 12:51 AM
Last week the Ventura County Star got some press for shutting down the increasingly nasty comments being posted by the public on the paper's news...
Posted May 23, 2005 04:01 PM
We interrupt this blog-free day to pass along the news that Katrina Dewey is leaving as editor of the Los Angeles Daily Journal. Martin Berg,...
Posted May 20, 2005 12:18 PM
A feature story about the Chinese student body at San Marino High School has promoted an outcry by students and threats of violence against Pasadena...
Posted May 13, 2005 04:01 PM
It has been pointed out to me that the bimonthly VenicePaper is on the web now. The May/June issue has stories on the neighborhood council...
Posted May 12, 2005 09:20 PM
The National Enquirer has gone British for a new chief of the Los Angeles bureau. David Gardner, who had been West Coast editor of London’s...
Posted April 25, 2005 11:25 AM
The home web page of the Inland Valley Daily Bulletin carries this retraction: An apology to Bo Jackson A story we published online March 24...
Posted April 11, 2005 12:34 PM
Retired baseball and NFL player Bo Jackson sued the Inland Valley Daily Bulletin, sports editor Jim Mohr and MediaNews Group for defamation after the paper...
Posted April 8, 2005 12:11 AM
It's Pulitzer showdown day between the Times and OC Register: both have series up for the Public Service medal. The prizes start posting at noon...
Posted April 4, 2005 02:39 AM
Blame the lollipops. At least some Variety subscribers didn't get their morning fix until late Thursday. Apparently the promotional suckers wrapped in with the full-page...
Posted March 24, 2005 09:55 PM
Betty Pleasant is a contributing editor to the Los Angeles Wave and writes the paper's gossipy Soul Vine column, mostly about black community politics. In...
Posted March 18, 2005 12:31 PM
Things are pretty quiet around City Hall today, with most of the press and many of the political staffs engaged on the election. But out...
Posted March 8, 2005 04:02 PM
The first wave of supposed leaks from the Pulitzer judging swept through newsrooms today. Both the Times and the Register are buzzing that they're finalists...
Posted March 3, 2005 10:45 PM
Selden Ring was a bigtime Los Angeles-area property developer who happened to believe that investigative reporting was essential to the republic. The annual award his...
Posted February 22, 2005 05:11 PM
Daily News City Hall reporter James Nash is jumping to the L.A. Business Journal, where I'm told he will cover the local media. Matt Myerhoff...
Posted February 9, 2005 12:23 PM
Not a moment too soon, CityBeat has given up the white-type-on-black look that made its website so difficult to read. The new design is definitely...
Posted January 27, 2005 10:39 AM
Felix Sanchez of the Long Beach Press-Telegram got the memo and broke the story that Boeing will announce today it's going to stop building the...
Posted January 14, 2005 08:58 AM
Short items for a new week: WeHo mayor: BoifromTroy comments on West Hollywood mayor John Duran buying a share of Frontiers, which bills itself as...
Posted January 10, 2005 02:59 PM
In a front page story in the latest L.A. Business Journal, Howard Fine says internal campaign polls show Antonio Villaraigosa and Bernard Parks—the two council...
Posted January 3, 2005 04:41 PM
L.A.'s most important Denver-based player, Philip Anschutz, has filed trademark applications to reserve "The Examiner" as the name of newspapers in 69 cities. The Denver...
Posted December 21, 2004 10:12 AM
Both the L.A. Business Journal and LA Weekly are getting ready to unveil newsier websites. In the new issue, the Journal announces that over the...
Posted December 19, 2004 09:38 PM
The LA Weekly's Marc Cooper was quite disturbed by the Times coverage of the death of Gary Webb, the Sacramento reporter who shot himself last...
Posted December 16, 2004 10:07 AM
The editor-in-chief in 1989 when the Herald Examiner folded died this week of cancer at age 76. His career included stints as managing editor of...
Posted December 10, 2004 03:29 PM
They may not describe it as war, but the Beverly Hills papers are at the least having a public spat. After being called out by...
Posted December 9, 2004 05:29 PM
Tribune has a new idea for Hoy, the Spanish-language daily that was caught cooking the circulation numbers—and that here in L.A. isn't doing too well,...
Posted December 8, 2004 06:25 PM
The Beverly Hills Courier splashes a front page story this week attacking the city's decision to pay a higher rate for legal advertising in the...
Posted December 8, 2004 05:44 PM
* Updated with link to story and cover of Blume and Kaplan Tomorrow's Pasadena Weekly will go into detail on the firing of LA Weekly...
Posted December 8, 2004 01:36 PM
Its website says that Our Weekly will launch in January "dedicated to the African American communities in Los Angeles." Based on Western Avenue in South...
Posted December 3, 2004 09:02 AM
Given recent events in the LA Weekly newsroom, this is interesting: fired Weekly writer Howard Blume will sit in for regular Deadline L.A. host Barbara...
Posted December 2, 2004 11:19 AM