Los Angeles Times

Mondo Times editors    Boulder, Colorado USA

Posted at 5:19pm on Friday, September 25th, 2009

The Los Angeles Times has a new editorial page editor, publisher Eddy Hartenstein announced in a memo dated September 17, 2009:

"I am pleased to announce the following changes in management responsibilities of our editorial pages.

Jim Newton, who has served as editor of the editorial pages for more than two years, is stepping down in order to finish up his biography of Dwight Eisenhower. Nick Goldberg, who has ably served as the section's deputy editor, will now become editor, overseeing the editorial board, as well as Op-Ed, Sunday Opinion, letters and our opinion coverage online. He will assume his new responsibilities on Monday, Sept. 28 and report to me.

Starting next week, Jim will scale back his duties. He will relinquish his management of Opinion but remain part of it, becoming editor-at-large, a new masthead position. In that capacity, he will advise on editorial matters, remain a member of the editorial board and will keep writing and editing for the editorial pages, both as an editorial writer and an Op-Ed contributor.

You all know Nick and Jim, so I'll be brief in recapping their credentials. Nick came to The Times in 2003 as Op-Ed editor and later expanded his duties to include Sunday Opinion as well. Last year, he was named deputy editor helping Jim to oversee the department. Before coming to The Times, Nick, a graduate of Harvard, spent many years at Newsday, where he covered the New York statehouse and the 1992 presidential campaign of Bill Clinton, among other assignments. He served as Middle East correspondent from 1995 to 1998. His work has been widely published in America's leading magazines.

Jim next week marks his 20th year at The Times, and over those decades has served as a reporter, bureau chief and editor, writing and shaping coverage from the Mission Viejo City Council to the LAPD to the administration of Mayor Riordan to the statehouse in Sacramento (and writing more than 900 A1 stories along the way). A Dartmouth alumnus, Jim began his career as clerk to James Reston, senior columnist for the New York Times. He also is the author of "Justice for All: Earl Warren and the Nation He Made.""

Mondo Times editors    Boulder, Colorado USA

Posted at 12:27am on Sunday, July 26th, 2009

Mike James is the new sports editor at the Los Angeles Times. He was the newspaper's deputy sports editor.

Mondo Times editors    Boulder, Colorado USA

Posted at 4:06pm on Tuesday, July 7th, 2009

The Los Angeles Times has promoted Randy Harvey from sports editor to associate editor, Meredith Artley from interactive executive editor to online managing editor, and Jon Thurber from obituary editor to print managing editor.

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?"

The full story:
http://www.tnr.com/politics/story.html?id=426c08c4-93ac-434b-b45c-a1f0b28013a3