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Campaign manager Douglas Jeffe, who died in a tragic accident last week, combined skill, intelligence, compassion and humor in a career that made him respected by friends and foes and placed him in ...
Read the memo: The new LAT owner says buying the paper was deeply personal and he calls himself a longtime admirer of the Times journalists.
Lewis D'Vorkin is out -- who didn't see that coming? -- and Jim Kirk, last year's interim editor of the LA Times from Chicago, is being rushed back to stop the madness.
"Hmm. Seems like there’s something different about the newsroom today," LA Times national reporter Matt Pearce tweeted. Our occasional roundup of news and notes. As always, between posts you can keep ...
The Los Angeles serial murder mystery known as the Grim Sleeper was basically cracked by an LA Weekly reporter, Christine Pelisek. The folks at LA Weekly were informed on Wednesday that the venerable ...
Tronc today pushed out Los Angeles Times editor-publisher Davan Maharaj (right) and replaced him as interim editor with Jim Kirk, the former editor of the Chicago Sun-Times. Managing editor Marc ...
Lynne Westmore Bloom, an artist who died Friday night at home in Encinitas, is best known for the work of guerrilla public art she created in 1966. Then known as Lynne Seemayer, she left her ...
Filthy McNasty owned two well-remembered music clubs in the Los Angeles area. His Filthy McNasty's on Sunset Strip occupied the spot where the Viper Room is now. After leaving the Strip, McNasty ran ...
Oscar reporters had to demand access to the ceremony after corporate suits took the LAT's passes. Also: could Davan Maharaj add publisher to his title?
Traditional mainstream news outlets are trying various models of following their readers to the web, and grappling with how to reorient the news staff to think web first and 24/7. The news hub idea ...
An LA Times newsroom pod. With dozens of veteran Los Angeles Times journalists cleaning out their desks this week, the magnitude of the experience leaving the building is coming home to people, inside ...