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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.""
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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.
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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.
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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?"
The full story:
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."
Read the full story:
http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-times10-2009apr10,0,1258830.story
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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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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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Eric Kallgren
Boulder, Colorado USA | Posted at 3:23pm on Wednesday, November 26th, 2008 | In the 'Off The Record' column of the New York Observer of November 25, 2008, John Koblin wrote about Sam Zell:
...a group of current and former L.A. Times staffers have filed a class action lawsuit against him for damaging the “reputation and business of the company.”
“The institutional integrity of the Los Angeles Times and other Tribune papers is being seriously damaged piece by piece,” the complaint reads in part, between claims about complicated corporate buyout issues that are probably what landed them in court in the first place. “Certain foreign bureaus and the Sunday opinion and book review sections of the largest newspaper in America’s second largest media market — the Los Angeles Times — have been closed down. Numerous veteran reporters have been terminated … The Los Angeles Times Magazine now reports to the business department rather than to the editorial department, a clear violation of journalistic ethics.”
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