Los Angeles Times
Los Angeles Times is a USA newspaper covering National News.
The Los Angeles Times was first published on December 4, 1881. It is distributed throughout the western United States.
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.
This newspaper is owned by Tribune Publishing.
Los Angeles Times is one of the largest circulation newspapers in the USA. Learn more at Mondo Newspapers, the worldwide newspaper directory.
The web site is presented in the English language.
Los Angeles Times Ratings | Content:
Average (30 votes)
Political Bias: Leans Left (30 votes)
Credibility: Moderate (26 votes)
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News, Reviews & Comments | Comments to date: 26. The most recent comments are below.
Mondo Times editors Boulder Colorado USA | Posted at 9:58am on Monday, March 15th, 2010 | Citizen Journalist Goes from New Media Star to Old News
The Los Angeles Times reported on March 13, 2010:
"What does it mean to be the most famous citizen journalist in the world? Mayhill Fowler has discovered it can be a rough ride.
Fowler uncovered Barack Obama's biggest stumble in campaign 2008, turning her into a star. She was pursued as a new-media seer, jetting off to journalism conferences and sending her digital tape recorder for exhibit at the Newseum in Washington D.C.
Yet many mainstream journalists disdained her as a poseur. Her former editors, after the campaign ended, unfriended her on Facebook and moved on. Nobody is much interested now in paying her to pursue her new craft.
But Fowler still tells me: "I fell in love with journalism. I feel like I'm not alive if I'm not doing it."
The homemaker and unpublished novelist who rocked a presidential campaign -- revealing what candidate Obama thought about poor, "bitter" voters -- could be the poster child for citizen journalism."
The full story:
http://www.latimes.com/news/columnists/la-et-onthemedia13-2010mar13,0,4030076.column
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Mondo Times editors Boulder Colorado USA | Posted at 6:46am on Thursday, March 11th, 2010 | Bay Area News Project Aiming High, Despite Small Staff
The Los Angeles Times reported on March 10, 2010:
"A wealthy philanthropist has kicked in $5 million in seed money. A top management consultant has come up with a business plan. A renowned university will lend not only its students but research help. And the budding endeavor has a chief executive who will pull down $400,000 a year and one of the world's most prestigious newspapers ready to give its future news offerings a home.
When the Bay Area News Project launches its website in late spring or early summer, it will be just the latest -- and perhaps the most ambitious -- nonprofit venture among a string of similar start-ups. Now all it must do is figure out how to provide coverage for a nine-county region, starting with only 15 employees.
Mainstream news operations have been stripped of journalism in recent years as outlets have hemorrhaged at least half of their reporters. But the San Francisco Chronicle, which has a news staff of 165, still dwarfs the newcomers."
The full story:
http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/news/la-et-onthemedia10-2010mar10,0,2411166.column
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Mondo Times editors Boulder Colorado USA | Posted at 11:36am on Saturday, February 27th, 2010 | Tsunami Warning Lifted for Ecuador's Galapagos Islands
The Los Angeles Times/Reuters reported on February 27, 2010:
"Residents and tourists on Ecuador's Galapagos islands moved to high ground Saturday after a massive earthquake in Chile generated tsunami warnings along South America's Pacific coast.
Witnesses on the islands said that waves in the area were unusually strong, but the government of Ecuador lifted a tsunami warning that had been issued for the Galapagos.
"As a preventive measure, there has been an evacuation (of people to high ground)," Edwin Pinto, an official at Ecuador's Oceanographic Institute, told reporters.
The evacuees were expected to remain away from low areas of the islands through Saturday afternoon, officials said."
The full story:
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/laplaza/2010/02/chile-earthquake-ecuador-galapagos-islands.html
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Mondo Times editors Boulder Colorado USA | Posted at 11:21am on Saturday, February 27th, 2010 | Tsunami Advisory Issued for Southern California
The Los Angeles Times reported on February 27, 2010:
"The tsunami advisory issued for the California coast predicts wave fluctuations of up to two feet, but officials said most people won't notice the difference.
According to a bulletin from the National Weather Service, the fluctuation will last about 30 minutes beginning after 12 p.m. in San Diego and La Jolla then moving north. The warning covers San Pedro at about 12:15 p.m., Santa Monica at 12:25 p.m. and Santa Barbara at 12:31 p.m.
The massive earthquake that struck near the coast of central Chile has prompted the advisory. Forecasters said widespread inundation is not expected, and officials don't believe there is a major threat of damage.
The NWS urged residents to stay away from the ocean through the early afternoon as a precaution, though forecasters stressed they don't expect damage. "Wave fluctuation" of 2 feet or less is possible at Santa Monica Pier around 12:25 p.m."
The full story:
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow/2010/02/preparations-urged-amid-tsumani-advisory-for-california.html
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