Los Angeles Times is a daily newspaper in Los Angeles, California, USA covering local news, sports, business, jobs, and community events. The newspaper is published seven days a week. The Los Angeles Times was first published on December 4, 1881. It is distributed throughout the western U.S. The newspaper was first published in the afternoon, using the name Los Angeles Daily Times. It soon went bankrupt, and was taken over by the paper's printer, the Mirror Company, which named Harrison Gray Otis as an editor. Otis made the paper a financial success and in 1884 he bought the newspaper and printing company to form the Times-Mirror Company. When Otis died in 1917, his son-in-law Harry Chandler became publisher of the Times. Harry Chandler was succeeded in 1944 by his son, Norman Chandler, who ran the paper during the rapid growth of post-war Los Angeles. In 1960, Otis Chandler became the fourth generation of family publishers. He made the Los Angeles Times one of the most respected American newspapers, along with the New York Times and Washington Post. He believed that the newsroom was "the heartbeat of the business," and increased the size and pay of the editorial staff and expanded its national and international reporting. In 1995 Otis Chandler gave up day-to-day control of the newspaper, and publisher Mark Willes, the former president of General Mills, took over. Willes was criticized for not understanding the newspaper business. Reporters and editors referred to him as "The Cereal Killer." In 2000, the Los Angeles Times and the rest of the Times Mirror Company was sold to the Tribune Company. With daily circulation of 723,181, Los Angeles Times is one of the largest circulation newspapers in the USA. Learn more at Mondo Newspapers, the worldwide newspaper directory. This newspaper is owned by Tribune Publishing. The web site is presented in the English language.
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David Lauter is the metro editor of the Los Angeles Times.
| Section editors: | | Book editor: | Janice Dawson | | Business editor: | Sallie Hofmeister | | Entertainment editor: | Lisa Fung | | Opinion editor: | Gary Speicker | | Sports editor: | Randy Harvey | | Travel editor: | Catharine Hamm |
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Average (28 votes)
Political Bias: Leans Left (28 votes)
Credibility: Moderate (24 votes)
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Eric Kallgren Boulder Colorado USA | Posted at 6:58pm on Friday, May 22nd, 2009 | A former reporter for the Los Angeles Times writes an "elegy for his dying paper." Joe Mathews from the March 4, 2009 issue of The New Republic:
"My relationship with my Los Angeles Times subscription is extremely contentious. Three times in the past six months, I have called up and cancelled the paper (you get an operator in Manila--much of the old circulation department has been outsourced), only to reconsider a few days later and restart my subscription.
When I don't take the Times, I feel guilty. I worked there for eight years. I still contribute pieces regularly. It's my hometown paper. But then I get the paper, read it, and start the day angry. There's nothing in the paper that enrages me. The articles are professionally done. No, my rage is from what I don't see, all the stories that aren't there any longer.
This is the daily tragedy of all the layoffs and buyouts and departures at U. S. newspapers and magazines. You can count up the journalists who have left the profession and are out of work, but much of the carnage of the ongoing media industry can't be measured or seen: corruption undiscovered, events not witnessed, tips about problems that never reach anyone's ears because those ears have left the newsroom. With fewer watchdogs, you get less barking. How can we know what we'll never know?"
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http://www.tnr.com/politics/story.html?id=426c08c4-93ac-434b-b45c-a1f0b28013a3
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Eric Kallgren Boulder, Colorado USA | Posted at 4:14pm on Monday, April 13th, 2009 | The LA Times is criticizing itself for running an ambiguously commercial front-page ad. From April 10, 2009:
"The Los Angeles Times came under criticism Thursday after it ran a front-page advertisement that resembled a news story.
The ad for the NBC drama "Southland" appeared in the left column, starting below the fold and above and beside a banner ad for the television show. The ad, which was labeled "advertisement" and carried the NBC peacock logo, was written from the perspective of a reporter on a ride-along with the show's main character, a Los Angeles police officer.
The Times appears to be the first major U.S. newspaper in modern times to have run a front-page ad in a format that could be mistaken for a news story, said Geneva Overholser, director of the School of Journalism at the USC Annenberg School for Communication.
Publisher Eddy Hartenstein said he decided to run the NBC ad despite newsroom objections because he was trying to ensure that The Times could continue to operate."
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http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-times10-2009apr10,0,1258830.story
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Mondo Times editors Boulder, Colorado USA | Posted at 3:00pm on Tuesday, March 3rd, 2009 | March 2, 2009: The Los Angeles Times has promoted Sallie Hofmeister to assistant managing editor, in charge of arts and entertainment coverage. Hofmeister was previously the business editor at the newspaper.
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Mondo Times editors Boulder, Colorado USA | Posted at 10:59pm on Saturday, January 31st, 2009 | On January 30, 2009, the Associated Press reported that the Los Angeles Times will cut 300 jobs:
"Amidst parent Tribune Co.'s struggle to emerge from bankruptcy protection, the Los Angeles Times said Friday it is cutting 300 positions and will shrink the number of daily sections to four from five.
The paper's publisher, Eddy Hartenstein, informed staff in a memo on Friday, explaining the cuts "are designed to help us deal with the economic realities of the day."
"Not a day goes by that we don't give our readers the latest news and analysis on the deepening troubles of the U.S. economy," Hartenstein wrote. "The same challenges that face the companies we report about also are affecting us."
The expected savings from the move were not announced.
Editor Russ Stanton said in a second memo that the cuts will include a 70-position reduction across the editorial department, or 11 percent, in the coming weeks.
Hartenstein said the paper will reduce the number of sections on March 2, folding the California section into the front section, which includes local, national and international news, while keeping Business, Sports and Calendar as daily fixtures.
The feature section lineup, including Health, Food, Home, Image, Travel and Arts & Books, will remain unchanged, he said."
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