LA Observed media http://www.laobserved.com/pages/media.php Media content on LA Observed. Copyright 2013 Wed, 19 Jun 2013 16:52:00 -0800 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=4.25 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Ex-LAT editor Sallie Hofmeister signs on with Sitrick Hofmeister is the latest former entertainment editor and reporter at the Los Angeles Times to try her hand at crisis PR with Sitrick And Company. She was at the LAT for 17 years, first as a business reporter covering media and Hollywood. She later became editor of the Business section, then the assistant managing editor overseeing coverage of entertainment. http://www.laobserved.com/archive/2013/06/ex-lat_editor_sallie_hofm.php http://www.laobserved.com/archive/2013/06/ex-lat_editor_sallie_hofm.php Media people Wed, 19 Jun 2013 12:54:05 -0800 Michael Hastings, 33, journalist dies in LA crash "We are shocked and devastated by the news that Michael Hastings is gone," says Ben Smith, the editor-in-chief of BuzzFeed. "Michael was a great, fearless journalist with an incredible instinct for the story, and a gift for finding ways to make his readers care about anything he covered from wars to politicians." http://www.laobserved.com/archive/2013/06/michael_hastings_33_journ.php http://www.laobserved.com/archive/2013/06/michael_hastings_33_journ.php Obituaries Tue, 18 Jun 2013 17:58:16 -0800 Deadline adds Lisa De Moraes, formerly of the Washington Post Nikki Finke certainly doesn't sound fired. Today she announced the hiring of new television columnist Lisa De Moraes, who spent about 15 years covering TV at the Washington Post. http://www.laobserved.com/archive/2013/06/deadline_adds_lisa_de_mor.php http://www.laobserved.com/archive/2013/06/deadline_adds_lisa_de_mor.php Hollywood Tue, 18 Jun 2013 15:42:32 -0800 KPCC adds six shows to nights and weekends, shifts others The revised lineup, brought about in part by the demise of NPR's "Talk of the Nation," will include a one-hour repackaging of that day's two-hour morning show, "Take Two." There will also be the NPR interview show, "Tell Me More," hosted by Michel Martin, on weeknights. http://www.laobserved.com/archive/2013/06/kpcc_adds_six_shows_to_ni.php http://www.laobserved.com/archive/2013/06/kpcc_adds_six_shows_to_ni.php Radio Tue, 18 Jun 2013 14:11:12 -0800 Fishbowl LA going dark after all these years Mediabistro is calling it a hiatus but says that "within the next few weeks, all existing FishbowlLA content will be folded into the FishbowlNY archives." Current editor Richard Horgan will move over to FishbowlNY "to cover the Hollywood trades, awards season and a broad range of national media stories." http://www.laobserved.com/archive/2013/06/fishbowl_la_going_dark_af.php http://www.laobserved.com/archive/2013/06/fishbowl_la_going_dark_af.php Blogosphere Tue, 18 Jun 2013 13:57:05 -0800 JJ Yore leaving 'Marketplace,' show he helped start * JJ Yore was a journalist on the creative team that created Marketplace in 1988, and was the executive producer until moving upstairs to VP/General Manager in 2011. Today the word got out in the Downtown Los Angeles offices that Yore will be leaving. http://www.laobserved.com/archive/2013/06/jj_yore_leaving_marketpla.php http://www.laobserved.com/archive/2013/06/jj_yore_leaving_marketpla.php Media people Mon, 17 Jun 2013 17:04:48 -0800 Tribune sale could be getting complicated The newspapers themselves, including the LAT, have been valued at up to $1 billion, but that doesn't include Tribune's financial ties to CareerBuilder and Classified Ventures, two big sources of revenue. http://www.laobserved.com/biz/2013/06/tribune_sale_could_b.php http://www.laobserved.com/biz/2013/06/tribune_sale_could_b.php Newspapers Thu, 13 Jun 2013 11:19:59 -0800 Chopper pilot Bob Tur says he is becoming a woman Bob Tur is one of the city's most recognized news helicopter pilot-reporters, from his coverage of the 2002 riots and the O.J. Simpson slow-speed chase. He told KNX NewsRadio that he is in the early stages of aggressive hormone replacement therapy to fully transform from male to female. http://www.laobserved.com/archive/2013/06/chopper_pilot_bob_tur_say.php http://www.laobserved.com/archive/2013/06/chopper_pilot_bob_tur_say.php Media people Wed, 12 Jun 2013 17:49:36 -0800 Times sitting on staff prize cash for Bell coverage - more than two years http://www.laobserved.com/archive/2013/06/times_sitting_on_reporter.php http://www.laobserved.com/archive/2013/06/times_sitting_on_reporter.php LAT Wed, 12 Jun 2013 17:20:11 -0800 Helen Brush Jenkins, early LA news photographer was 94 Helen Brush Jenkins shot photos for the original Los Angeles Daily News, the long-defunct newspaper whose memory the LA journalist Rip Rense has carefully kept alive. He advises that Jenkins died today in Chicago. More inside. http://www.laobserved.com/archive/2013/06/helen_brush_jenkins_early.php http://www.laobserved.com/archive/2013/06/helen_brush_jenkins_early.php Obituaries Wed, 12 Jun 2013 14:27:28 -0800