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September 7, 2008

The Sunday LA Times has a new addition--well, an old addition reinvented, sort of. It's LA, the new Los Angeles Times Magazine, but it's only available in print. In the age of the internets, a print-only publication (parented by a print publication that has had to face the age of the internets and--stop the presses!--do something about it) is a risky enterprise. Eating L.A.'s Pat Saperstein reviews the new mag on her blog today, and......

Continue Reading "Notice Something New in With Your Sunday Times?"

January 20, 2008

Twenty-four months, three LA Times editors gone, one reason: budget cuts. Jim O' Shea, editor of the LA Times was fired by Times Publisher David Hiller for failing to carry out $4 million in budget cuts at the paper. Apparently, Hiller wanted the money cut during the presidential campaign, a time when newspapers' budgets usually spike. This is the third editor to be fired over two years over the same budgetary issue. Do we......

Continue Reading "Fired & Forced Out: LA Times Editor, Jim O'Shea"

September 19, 2007

Just got an e-mail from NYTimes.com confirming the end of the two-year-old TimesSelect subscription experiment. Our friends in New York are thrilled about this and so are we. All the content fit to publish should be freely available. The e-mail isn't exactly a Steve Jobs-esque love letter, leaving us to wonder whether or not there will be rebates for those who recently plunked down $50 for the right to indulge in the opinions of Maureen......

Continue Reading "Arr! Pirates Take Back the Times"

March 22, 2007

At the LA Times building this morning, we were invited to speak to a group of arts organizations on Web 2.0, which, of course, includes blogging (this was not a Times sponsored event, rather they gave the use of their community room). It was fun and dandy and lots of people were still getting accustomed to the world of blogging. However, we found it funny and odd that internet access in the building was hard......

Continue Reading "Trying to Live Blog at the LA Times Building"

August 3, 2006

Blogebrity Editor Kyle Bunch sends in this tip that The Onion will bloom in LA next week in over 1,000 locations. Currently their website says that today is the day that the nation's best satire newspaper should hit the streets but, you know, the Internet's tubes are sometimes incorrect. We'll be keeping our eyes peeled for any sightings of the actual rag out there on street corners, but if you find them before we......

Continue Reading "Area Man Spots Finest Newspaper Ever Coming to Area"

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