Los Angeles Times staffers have not been blessed with the same good news that the New York Times newsroom received today.
As rumored, Russ Stanton, editor of The Los Angeles Times, announced this morning that 75 people are being laid off. It’s the third round of job cuts for the paper this Read More
As warned, The Los Angeles Times has completed its redesign.
And it is much less splashy than The Chicago Tribune’s was.
It’s a point that Lee Abrams, the chief innovation director for Tribune, mentioned in a memo to his staffers. "It will be quite a bit less dramatic than our other newspapers, Read More
It’s the L.A. Times’ first Democratic endorsement in a presidential election ever, and the paper’s first presidential endorsement since 1972.
We may one day look back on this presidential campaign in wonder. We may marvel that Obama’s critics called him an elitist, as if an Ivy League education were a source of embarrassment, Read More
Kevin Roderick at LA Observed got his hands on some of the images that Los Angeles Times is handing to focus groups on their proposed redesign.
One thing we noticed (and sort of like): The L.A. Times "staff writer" tagline below a reporter’s byline is done; it’ll be replaced by something that says, Read More
Can it get any worse for The Los Angeles Times?
In a year when the paper has cut far more editorial staffers than any paper in the country, it appears the’re not quite done yet.
Keven Roderick at LA Observed is reporting that more job cuts are on the way, and the number could Read More
Since The Los Angeles Times decided to lay off 135 people—100+ people for the second time this year—its PR brass has been trying to distract the media with other, happier news. Yesterday, with a nice link from Romenesko, the Times announced that it had its biggest Web-traffic month ever with 127 million page Read More
Shortly after a magnitude-5.8 earthquake hit Los Angeles this afternoon, the L.A. Times Web site went down. Managing editor John Arthur explained in an (obviously dashed off given the circumstances) email to staff: “our website server is staggering because of heavy volume. the page actually has been updated and may load for soe people. keep Read More
Sam Zell and Randy Michaels are about to end the Sunday Book Review at the L.A. Times and book reviews editors past are not pleased about it. Four former editors of the section—Sonja Bolle, Digby Diehl, Jack Miles and Steve Wasserman—wrote in a joint-letter to L.A. Observed complaining about the decision.
To be Read More
The new L.A. Times magazine–a name hasn’t been settled yet–plans to go the way of the New York Times’ T and WSJ Magazine: it’ll be a glossy luxury magazine. Last month, the newspaper’s then-publisher, David Hiller, forced the newsroom to surrender control of the magazine to the business side.
Even though Mr. Hiller Read More
Newly named Washington Post executive editor Marcus Brauchli’s wife, Maggie Farley, the United Nations reporter for the L.A. Times, says she quit right before the paper announced layoffs in order to "save a body." And, not surprisingly, she doesn’t care much for what’s happening to the paper. She tells L.A. Observed’s Kevin Roderick:
"I Read More
