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Los Angeles Times to Launch Paywall

John Johnson — Fri, 24 Feb 2012 16:07:57 CST

The Los Angeles Times is going behind a paywall next month, joining the ranks of the New York Times , the Wall Street Journal , and most recently, Gannett. (The latter's hasn't gone into effect yet.) The LAT "membership program" will eventually cost $1.99 a week when combined with the...

LA Times Wins Key Pulitzer

Polly Davis Doig — Mon, 18 Apr 2011 15:00:29 CDT

The Los Angeles Times took home the coveted public service Pulitzer Prize this afternoon for its exposé of widepsread corruption in the city of Bell, Calif. The piece eventually led to the arrests of eight city officials, including the city administrator, who was pulling down $800,000 a year. The...

Restaurant Photographs, Then Boots Critic

Matt Cantor — Thu, 23 Dec 2010 09:23:22 CST

A Los Angeles Times restaurant critic has been “unmasked” by a feisty restaurant boss, who snapped her picture while she waited for a table and then sent her packing, the Times reports. The restaurant posted S. Irene Virbila’s picture on its Tumblr blog , where it spread like wildfire to mixed...

How Frat Boy Hijinks Helped Screw the Tribune Co.

Mary Papenfuss — Wed, 06 Oct 2010 06:38:00 CDT

The shockingly sexist frat boy hijinks of top managers of the Tribune Company created an alienating workplace and "bankrupt culture" that helped send the financially troubled media firm into a tailspin, reports the New York Times . Just after radio exec Randy Michaels was hired by billionaire owner Sam Zell to...

TMZ Scoops World on Jackson Death

John Johnson — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 10:41:01 CDT

TMZ left its more savory rivals in the dust yesterday, reporting Michael Jackson’s cardiac arrest and death before any other media outlet, the Chicago Tribune reports. The AOL gossip website reported Jackson’s death at 2:44 local time, less than 20 minutes after the singer expired. But many outlets were...

Times to Ax 300 Jobs, Local News Section

Neal Colgrass — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 20:37:02 CST

Amid growing gloom in the newspaper business, the Los Angeles Times plans to lay off 300 workers and shelve its local news section, LA Observed reports. Foreign and national news will be downplayed to fit local stories into the front section, the publisher said in a memo today. Seventy newsroom...

Big Day a Windfall for Newspapers

Peter Fearon — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 04:02:16 CST

Newspapers expect a multi-million-dollar windfall in extra sales to people who want a keepsake of Inauguration Day, and publishers are gearing up to make the most of it, Bloomberg reports. The Washington Post is jacking up its price to $2, and the New York Times, USA Today and other publications...

The Bell Tolls for Journos

Kristina Loew — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 09:32:21 CST

With the flurry of firings and buyouts at the nation’s newspapers, "it certainly feels like the end of days," writes Julia Klein in Obit . But while much has been made of lofty topics such as "the fate of democracy" and "journalism's core civic and watchdog functions, not much attention has...

Tribune Company Files for Bankruptcy

Harry Kimball — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 14:09:25 CST

The Tribune Company filed today for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, due to mounting debt and an inability to pay interest in the floundering economy, the Wall Street Journal reports. Tribune’s profits declined 83% in the third quarter, making it difficult to finance $12 billion in debt. The company has employed...