The ''Los Angeles Times'' (abbreviated as ''LA Times'') is a
daily newspaper
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that started publishing in
Los Angeles
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Pulitzer Prizes
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. It is owned by
Patrick Soon-Shiong
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and published by the
Times Mirror Company
The Times Mirror Company was an American newspaper and print media publisher from 1884 until 2000.
History
It had its roots in the Mirror Printing and Binding House, a commercial printing company founded in 1873, and the ''Los Angeles Times'' ...
. The newspaper’s coverage emphasizes California and especially Southern California stories.
In the 19th century, the paper developed a reputation for civic
boosterism
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and opposition to
labor unions
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, the latter of which led to the bombing of its headquarters in 1910. The paper's profile grew substantially in the 1960s under publisher
Otis Chandler
Otis Chandler (November 23, 1927 – February 27, 2006) was the publisher of the ''Los Angeles Times'' between 1960 and 1980, leading a large expansion of the newspaper and its ambitions. He was the fourth and final member of the Chandler fami ...
, who adopted a more national focus. In recent decades the paper's readership has declined, and it has been beset by a series of ownership changes, staff reductions, and other controversies. In January 2018, the paper's staff voted to
unionize
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The ''Times'' was first published on December 4, 1881, as the ''Los Angeles Daily Times'', under the direction of Nathan Cole Jr. and Thomas Gardiner. It was first printed at the ''Mirror'' printing plant, owned by Jesse Yarnell and T. J. Caystile. Unable to pay the printing bill, Cole and Gardiner turned the paper over to the Mirror Company. In the meantime, S. J. Mathes had joined the firm, and it was at his insistence that the ''Times'' continued publication. In July 1882, Harrison Gray Otis moved from Santa Barbara to become the paper's editor."Mirror Acorn, 'Times' Oak," ''Los Angeles Times,'' October 23, 1923, page II-1 ''Access to this link requires the use of a library card.'' Otis made the ''Times'' a financial success.
Historian
Kevin Starr
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wrote that Otis was a businessman "capable of manipulating the entire apparatus of politics and public opinion for his own enrichment". Otis's editorial policy was based on civic
boosterism
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, extolling the virtues of
Los Angeles
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Clarence Darrow
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to represent the brothers, who eventually pleaded guilty.
Otis fastened a bronze eagle on top of a high
frieze
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of the new ''Times'' headquarters building designed by
Gordon Kaufmann
Gordon Bernie Kaufmann (19 March 1888 – 1 March 1949) was an English-born American architect mostly known for his work on the Hoover Dam.
Early life
On 19 March 1888, Kaufmann was born in Forest Hill, London, England.
Education
K ...
, proclaiming anew the credo written by his wife, Eliza: "Stand Fast, Stand Firm, Stand Sure, Stand True".Clarence Darrow: Biography and Much More from Answers.com at www.answers.com
Chandler era
After Otis's death in 1917, his son-in-law,
Harry Chandler
Harry Chandler (May 17, 1864 – September 23, 1944) was an American newspaper publisher and investor who became owner of the largest real estate empire in the U.S.
Early life
Harry Chandler was born in Landaff, New Hampshire, the eldest of four ...
, took control as publisher of the ''Times''. Harry Chandler was succeeded in 1944 by his son,
Norman Chandler
Norman Chandler (September 14, 1899 – October 20, 1973) was the publisher of the ''Los Angeles Times'' from 1945 to 1960.
Personal
Norman Chandler was born in Los Angeles on September 14, 1899, one of eight children of Harry Chandler and Ma ...
, who ran the paper during the rapid growth of post-war Los Angeles. Norman's wife, Dorothy Buffum Chandler, became active in civic affairs and led the effort to build the Los Angeles Music Center, whose main concert hall was named the
Dorothy Chandler Pavilion
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in her honor. Family members are buried at the
Hollywood Forever Cemetery
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near
Paramount Studios
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. The site also includes a memorial to the Times Building bombing victims.
In 1935, the newspaper moved to a new, landmark Art Deco building, the
Los Angeles Times Building
Times Mirror Square is a complex of buildings on the block bounded by Spring, Broadway, First and Second streets in the Civic Center district of Downtown Los Angeles. It was headquarters of the ''Los Angeles Times'' until 2018. It is curren ...
, to which the newspaper would add other facilities until taking up the entire city block between Spring, Broadway, First and Second streets, which came to be known as
Times Mirror Square
Times Mirror Square is a complex of buildings on the block bounded by Spring, Broadway, First and Second streets in the Civic Center district of Downtown Los Angeles. It was headquarters of the ''Los Angeles Times'' until 2018. It is currentl ...
and would house the paper until 2018.
Harry Chandler
Harry Chandler (May 17, 1864 – September 23, 1944) was an American newspaper publisher and investor who became owner of the largest real estate empire in the U.S.
Early life
Harry Chandler was born in Landaff, New Hampshire, the eldest of four ...
, then the president and general manager of Times-Mirror Co., declared the Los Angeles Times Building a "monument to the progress of our city and Southern California".
The fourth generation of family publishers,
Otis Chandler
Otis Chandler (November 23, 1927 – February 27, 2006) was the publisher of the ''Los Angeles Times'' between 1960 and 1980, leading a large expansion of the newspaper and its ambitions. He was the fourth and final member of the Chandler fami ...
, held that position from 1960 to 1980. Otis Chandler sought legitimacy and recognition for his family's paper, often forgotten in the power centers of the Northeastern United States due to its geographic and cultural distance. He sought to remake the paper in the model of the nation's most respected newspapers, such as ''
The New York Times
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'' and ''
The Washington Post
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''. Believing that the newsroom was "the heartbeat of the business", Otis Chandler increased the size and pay of the reporting staff and expanded its national and international reporting. In 1962, the paper joined with ''The Washington Post'' to form the
Los Angeles Times–Washington Post News Service
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to syndicate articles from both papers for other news organizations. He also toned down the unyielding conservatism that had characterized the paper over the years, adopting a much more centrist editorial stance.
During the 1960s, the paper won four Pulitzer Prizes, more than its previous nine decades combined.
Writing in 2013 about the pattern of newspaper ownership by founding families, ''Times'' reporter Michael Hiltzik said that:
The first generations bought or founded their local paper for profits and also social and political influence (which often brought more profits). Their children enjoyed both profits and influence, but as the families grew larger, the later generations found that only one or two branches got the power, and everyone else got a share of the money. Eventually the coupon-clipping branches realized that they could make more money investing in something other than newspapers. Under their pressure the companies went public, or split apart, or disappeared. That's the pattern followed over more than a century by the ''Los Angeles Times'' under the Chandler family.
The paper's early history and subsequent transformation was chronicled in an unauthorized history, ''Thinking Big'' (1977, ), and was one of four organizations profiled by
David Halberstam
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in '' The Powers That Be'' (1979, ; 2000 reprint ). It has also been the whole or partial subject of nearly thirty dissertations in communications or social science in the past four decades.
Former ''Times'' buildings
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#1935–2018,
Times Mirror Square
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, the block bounded by First, Second, Spring streets and
Broadway
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The ''Los Angeles Times'' was beset in the first decade of the 21st century by a change in ownership, a bankruptcy, a rapid succession of editors, reductions in staff, decreases in paid circulation, the need to increase its Web presence, and a series of controversies.
The newspaper moved to a new headquarters building in El Segundo, near Los Angeles International Airport, in July 2018.
Ownership
In 2000,
Times Mirror Company
The Times Mirror Company was an American newspaper and print media publisher from 1884 until 2000.
History
It had its roots in the Mirror Printing and Binding House, a commercial printing company founded in 1873, and the ''Los Angeles Times'' ...
, publisher of the ''Los Angeles Times'', was purchased by the
Tribune Company
Tribune Media Company, also known as Tribune Company, was an American multimedia conglomerate headquartered in Chicago, Illinois.
Through Tribune Broadcasting, Tribune Media was one of the largest television broadcasting companies, owning 39 ...
of
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, placing the paper in co-ownership with the then WB-affiliated (now CW-affiliated) KTLA, which Tribune acquired in 1985.
On April 2, 2007, the Tribune Company announced its acceptance of real estate entrepreneur
Sam Zell
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's offer to buy the ''
Chicago Tribune
The ''Chicago Tribune'' is a daily newspaper based in Chicago, Illinois, United States, owned by Tribune Publishing. Founded in 1847, and formerly self-styled as the "World's Greatest Newspaper" (a slogan for which WGN radio and television a ...
'', the ''Los Angeles Times'', and all other company assets. Zell announced that he would sell the Chicago Cubs baseball club. He put up for sale the company's 25 percent interest in
Comcast SportsNet
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Chicago. Until shareholder approval was received, Los Angeles billionaires
Ron Burkle
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and
Eli Broad
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had the right to submit a higher bid, in which case Zell would have received a $25 million buyout fee.
In December 2008, the Tribune Company filed for bankruptcy protection. The bankruptcy was a result of declining advertising revenue and a debt load of $12.9 billion, much of it incurred when the paper was taken private by Zell.
On February 7, 2018, Tribune Publishing (formerly Tronc Inc.), agreed to sell the ''Los Angeles Times'' along with other southern California properties (''
The San Diego Union-Tribune
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Its name derives from a 1992 merger between the two major daily newspapers at the time, ''The San Diego Union'' and ...
Patrick Soon-Shiong
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. This purchase by Soon-Shiong through his Nant Capital investment fund was for $500 million, as well as the assumption of $90 million in pension liabilities. The sale to Soon-Shiong closed on June 16, 2018.
Editorial changes and staff reductions
In 2000, John Carroll, former editor of the '' Baltimore Sun'', was brought in to restore the luster of the newspaper. During his reign at the ''Times'', he eliminated more than 200 jobs, but despite an operating profit margin of 20 percent, the Tribune executives were unsatisfied with returns, and by 2005 Carroll had left the newspaper. His successor,
Dean Baquet
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, refused to impose the additional cutbacks mandated by the Tribune Company.
Baquet was the first African-American to hold this type of editorial position at a top-tier daily. During Baquet and Carroll's time at the paper, it won 13 Pulitzer Prizes, more than any other paper except ''The New York Times''. However, Baquet was removed from the editorship for not meeting the demands of the Tribune Group—as was publisher Jeffrey Johnson—and was replaced by James O'Shea of the ''Chicago Tribune''. O'Shea himself left in January 2008 after a budget dispute with publisher David Hiller.
The paper's content and design style were overhauled several times in attempts to increase circulation. In 2000, a major change reorganized the news sections (related news was put closer together) and changed the "Local" section to the "California" section with more extensive coverage. Another major change in 2005 saw the Sunday "Opinion" section retitled the Sunday "Current" section, with a radical change in its presentation and featured columnists. There were regular
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s with Tribune-owned television station KTLA to bring evening-news viewers into the ''Times'' fold.
The paper reported on July 3, 2008, that it planned to cut 250 jobs by Labor Day and reduce the number of published pages by 15 percent. That included about 17 percent of the news staff, as part of the newly private media company's mandate to reduce costs. "We've tried to get ahead of all the change that's occurring in the business and get to an organization and size that will be sustainable", Hiller said. In January 2009, the ''Times'' eliminated the separate California/Metro section, folding it into the front section of the newspaper. The ''Times'' also announced seventy job cuts in news and editorial or a 10 percent cut in payroll.
In September 2015, Austin Beutner, the publisher and chief executive, was replaced by Timothy E. Ryan. On October 5, 2015, the
Poynter Institute
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reported that "At least 50' editorial positions will be culled from the ''Los Angeles Times''" through a buyout. On this subject, the ''Los Angeles Times'' reported with foresight: "For the 'funemployed,' unemployment is welcome." Nancy Cleeland, who took O'Shea's buyout offer, did so because of "frustration with the paper's coverage of working people and organized labor" (the beat that earned her Pulitzer). She speculated that the paper's revenue shortfall could be reversed by expanding coverage of economic justice topics, which she believed were increasingly relevant to
Southern California
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; she cited the paper's attempted hiring of a "celebrity justice reporter" as an example of the wrong approach.
On August 21, 2017,
Ross Levinsohn
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, then aged 54, was named publisher and CEO, replacing Davan Maharaj, who had been both publisher and editor. On June 16, 2018, the same day the sale to Patrick Soon-Shiong closed,
Norman Pearlstine
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Early life and education ...
was named executive editor.
On May 3, 2021, the newspaper announced that it had selected Kevin Merida to be the new executive editor. Merida is a senior vice president at
ESPN
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and leads The Undefeated, a site focused on sports, race, and culture. Previously, he was the first Black managing editor at The Washington Post.
Circulation
The ''Times'' has suffered continued decline in distribution. Reasons offered for the circulation drop included a price increase and a rise in the proportion of readers preferring to read the online version instead of the print version. Editor Jim O'Shea, in an internal memo announcing a May 2007, mostly voluntary,
reduction in force
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, characterized the decrease in circulation as an "industry-wide problem" which the paper had to counter by "growing rapidly on-line", "break ngnews on the Web and explain ngand analyz ngit in our newspaper."
The ''Times'' closed its San Fernando Valley printing plant in early 2006, leaving press operations to the Olympic plant and to
Orange County
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. Also that year the paper announced its circulation had fallen to 851,532, down 5.4 percent from 2005. The ''Times''s loss of circulation was the largest of the top ten newspapers in the U.S. Some observers believed that the drop was due to the retirement of circulation director Bert Tiffany. Still, others thought the decline was a side effect of a succession of short-lived editors who were appointed by publisher Mark Willes after publisher
Otis Chandler
Otis Chandler (November 23, 1927 – February 27, 2006) was the publisher of the ''Los Angeles Times'' between 1960 and 1980, leading a large expansion of the newspaper and its ambitions. He was the fourth and final member of the Chandler fami ...
relinquished day-to-day control in 1995. Willes, the former president of
General Mills
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, was criticized for his lack of understanding of the newspaper business, and was derisively referred to by reporters and editors as ''The Cereal Killer''.
The ''Times''s reported daily circulation in October 2010 was 600,449, down from a peak of 1,225,189 daily and 1,514,096 Sunday in April 1990.
Internet presence and free weeklies
In December 2006, a team of ''Times'' reporters delivered management with a critique of the paper's online news efforts known as the
Spring Street Project
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. The report, which condemned the ''Times'' as a "web-stupid" organization, was followed by a shakeup in management of the paper's website, www.latimes.com ', and a rebuke of print staffers who were described as treating "change as a threat."
On July 10, 2007, ''Times'' launched a local
Metromix
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History ...
site targeting live entertainment for young adults. A free weekly tabloid print edition of Metromix Los Angeles followed in February 2008; the publication was the newspaper's first stand-alone print weekly. In 2009, the ''Times'' shut down Metromix and replaced it with ''Brand X'', a
blog site
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and free weekly tabloid targeting young, social networking readers. ''Brand X'' launched in March 2009; the ''Brand X'' tabloid ceased publication in June 2011 and the website was shut down the following month.
In May 2018, the ''Times'' blocked access to its online edition from most of Europe because of the European Union's General Data Protection Regulation.
Other controversies
It was revealed in 1999 that a revenue-sharing arrangement was in place between the ''Times'' and Staples Center in the preparation of a 168-page magazine about the opening of the sports arena. The magazine's editors and writers were not informed of the agreement, which breached the Chinese wall that traditionally has separated advertising from journalistic functions at American newspapers. Publisher Mark Willes also had not prevented advertisers from pressuring reporters in other sections of the newspaper to write stories favorable to their point of view.
Michael Kinsley
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Early life and e ...
was hired as the Opinion and Editorial ( op-ed) Editor in April 2004 to help improve the quality of the opinion pieces. His role was controversial, for he forced writers to take a more decisive stance on issues. In 2005, he created a Wikitorial, the first
Wiki
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by a major news organization. Although it failed, readers could combine forces to produce their own editorial pieces. It was shut down after being besieged with inappropriate material. He resigned later that year.
The ''Times'' drew fire for a last-minute story before the
2003 California recall election
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alleging that
gubernatorial
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candidate Arnold Schwarzenegger groped scores of women during his movie career. Columnist Jill Stewart wrote on the ''American Reporter'' website that the ''Times'' did not do a story on allegations that former Governor Gray Davis had verbally and physically abused women in his office, and that the Schwarzenegger story relied on a number of anonymous sources. Further, she said, four of the six alleged victims were not named. She also said that in the case of the Davis allegations, the ''Times'' decided against printing the Davis story because of its reliance on anonymous sources. The
American Society of Newspaper Editors
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said that the ''Times'' lost more than 10,000 subscribers because of the negative publicity surrounding the Schwarzenegger article.
On November 12, 2005, new op-ed editor Andrés Martinez announced the dismissal of liberal op-ed columnist
Robert Scheer
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and conservative editorial cartoonist Michael Ramirez.
The ''Times'' also came under controversy for its decision to drop the weekday edition of the ''
Garfield
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'' comic strip in 2005, in favor of a hipper comic strip '' Brevity'', while retaining it in the Sunday edition. ''Garfield'' was dropped altogether shortly thereafter.
Following the Republican Party's defeat in the 2006 mid-term elections, an Opinion piece by Joshua Muravchik, a leading
neoconservative
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and a resident scholar at the conservative
American Enterprise Institute
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, published on November 19, 2006, was titled 'Bomb Iran'. The article shocked some readers, with its hawkish comments in support of more unilateral action by the United States, this time against Iran.
On March 22, 2007, editorial page editor Andrés Martinez resigned following an alleged scandal centering on his girlfriend's professional relationship with a Hollywood producer who had been asked to guest-edit a section in the newspaper. In an open letter written upon leaving the paper, Martinez criticized the publication for allowing the Chinese wall between the news and editorial departments to be weakened, accusing news staffers of lobbying the opinion desk.
In November 2017, Walt Disney Studios blacklisted the ''Times'' from attending press screenings of its films, in retaliation for September 2017 reportage by the paper on
Disney
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's political influence in the Anaheim area. The company considered the coverage to be "biased and inaccurate". As a sign of condemnation and solidarity, a number of major publications and writers, including ''The New York Times'', ''
Boston Globe
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'' critic
Ty Burr
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, ''
Washington Post
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'' blogger Alyssa Rosenberg, and the websites ''
The A.V. Club
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'' and ''
Flavorwire
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'', announced that they would boycott press screenings of future Disney films. The
National Society of Film Critics
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New York Film Critics Circle
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, and
Boston Society of Film Critics
The Boston Society of Film Critics (BSFC) is an organization of film reviewers from Boston, Massachusetts in the United States.
History
The BSFC was formed in 1981 to make “Boston’s unique critical perspective heard on a national and internati ...
jointly announced that Disney's films would be ineligible for their respective year-end awards unless the decision was reversed, condemning the decision as being "antithetical to the principles of a free press and
etting
Etting (; ; Lorraine Franconian: ''Ettinge'') is a commune in the Moselle department of the Grand Est administrative region in north-eastern France.
The village belongs to the Pays de Bitche.
See also
* Communes of the Moselle department
The ...
a dangerous precedent in a time of already heightened hostility towards journalists". On November 7, 2017, Disney reversed its decision, stating that the company "had productive discussions with the newly installed leadership at the ''Los Angeles Times'' regarding our specific concerns".
Pulitzer Prizes
Through 2014 the ''Times'' had won 41 Pulitzer Prizes, including four in editorial cartooning, and one each in spot news reporting for the 1965 Watts Riots and the
1992 Los Angeles riots
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.
* The ''Los Angeles Times'' received the
1984
Events
January
* January 1 – The Bornean Sultanate of Brunei gains full independence from the United Kingdom, having become a British protectorate in 1888.
* January 7 – Brunei becomes the sixth member of the Association of Southeas ...
Latinos
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".
* ''Times'' sportswriter Jim Murray won a Pulitzer in 1990.
* ''Times'' investigative reporters
Chuck Philips
Charles Alan Philips (born October 15, 1952) is an American writer and journalist. He is best known for his investigative reporting in the ''Los Angeles Times'' on the culture, corruption, and crime in the music industry during the 1990s and ...
and
Michael Hiltzik
Michael A. Hiltzik (born November 9, 1952) is an American columnist, reporter and author who has written extensively for the ''Los Angeles Times''. In 1999, he won a beat reporting Pulitzer Prize for co-writing a series of articles about corrupti ...
won the Pulitzer in 1999 for a year-long series that exposed corruption in the music business.
* ''Times'' journalist David Willman won the 2001 Pulitzer Prize for Investigative Reporting; the organization cited "his pioneering expose of seven unsafe prescription drugs that had been approved by the
Food and Drug Administration
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, and an analysis of the policy reforms that had reduced the agency's effectiveness." In 2004, the paper won five prizes, which is the third-most by any paper in one year (behind ''
The New York Times
''The New York Times'' (''the Times'', ''NYT'', or the Gray Lady) is a daily newspaper based in New York City with a worldwide readership reported in 2020 to comprise a declining 840,000 paid print subscribers, and a growing 6 million paid d ...
The Washington Post
''The Washington Post'' (also known as the ''Post'' and, informally, ''WaPo'') is an American daily newspaper published in Washington, D.C. It is the most widely circulated newspaper within the Washington metropolitan area and has a large nati ...
'' in
2008
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(6)).
* ''Times'' reporters Bettina Boxall and Julie Cart won a Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Reporting in 2009 "for their fresh and painstaking exploration into the cost and effectiveness of attempts to combat the growing menace of wildfires across the western United States."
* In 2011, Barbara Davidson was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Feature Photography "for her intimate story of innocent victims trapped in the city's crossfire of deadly gang violence."
* In 2016, the ''Times'' won the breaking news Pulitzer prize for its coverage of the mass shooting in
San Bernardino
San Bernardino (; Spanish for "Saint Bernardino") is a city and county seat of San Bernardino County, California, United States. Located in the Inland Empire region of Southern California, the city had a population of 222,101 in the 2020 cen ...
, California.
* In 2019, three ''Los Angeles Times'' reporters – Harriet Ryan, Matt Hamilton and Paul Pringle – won a Pulitzer Prize for their investigation into a gynecologist accused of abusing hundreds of students at the University of Southern California.
Competition and rivalry
In the 19th century, the chief competition to the ''Times'' was the '' Los Angeles Herald,'' followed by the smaller '' Los Angeles Tribune.'' In December 1903, newspaper magnate
William Randolph Hearst
William Randolph Hearst Sr. (; April 29, 1863 – August 14, 1951) was an American businessman, newspaper publisher, and politician known for developing the nation's largest newspaper chain and media company, Hearst Communications. His flamboya ...
began publishing the ''
Los Angeles Examiner
The ''Los Angeles Examiner'' was a newspaper founded in 1903 by William Randolph Hearst in Los Angeles, California. The afternoon '' Los Angeles Herald-Express'' and the morning ''Los Angeles Examiner'', both of which had been publishing in the ...
Los Angeles metropolitan area
Greater Los Angeles is the second-largest metropolitan region in the United States with a population of 18.5 million in 2021, encompassing five counties in Southern California extending from Ventura County in the west to San Bernardino C ...
. In 1948, it launched the ''Los Angeles Mirror'', an afternoon tabloid, to compete with both the ''Daily News'' and the merged ''Herald-Express''. In 1954, the ''Mirror'' absorbed the ''Daily News''. The combined paper, the ''Mirror-News'', ceased publication in 1962, when the Hearst afternoon '' Herald-Express'' and the morning ''
Los Angeles Examiner
The ''Los Angeles Examiner'' was a newspaper founded in 1903 by William Randolph Hearst in Los Angeles, California. The afternoon '' Los Angeles Herald-Express'' and the morning ''Los Angeles Examiner'', both of which had been publishing in the ...
'' merged to become the '' Herald-Examiner''.Leonard Pitt and Dale Pitt, ''Los Angeles: A to Z,'' University of California Press, . The ''Herald-Examiner'' published its last number in 1989. In 2014, the ''Los Angeles Register'', published by Freedom Communications, then-parent company of the ''Orange County Register'' was launched as a daily newspaper to compete with the ''Times''. By late September of the same year, the ''Los Angeles Register'' was folded.
Special editions
Midwinter and midsummer
Midwinter
For 69 years, from 1885 until 1954, the ''Times'' issued on New Year's Day a special annual Midwinter Number or Midwinter Edition that extolled the virtues of Southern California. At first, it was called the "Trade Number", and in 1886 it featured a special press run of "extra scope and proportions"; that is, "a twenty-four-page paper, and we hope to make it the finest exponent of this outhern Californiacountry that ever existed." Two years later, the edition had grown to "forty-eight handsome pages (9×15 inches),
hich
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Iran, officially the Islamic Republic of Iran, and also ...
stitched for convenience and better preservation", was "equivalent to a 150-page book." The last use of the phrase ''Trade Number'' was in 1895, when the edition had grown to thirty-six pages split among three separate sections.
The Midwinter Number drew acclamations from other newspapers, including this one from ''
The Kansas City Star
''The Kansas City Star'' is a newspaper based in Kansas City, Missouri. Published since 1880, the paper is the recipient of eight Pulitzer Prizes. ''The Star'' is most notable for its influence on the career of President Harry S. Truman and a ...
'' in 1923:
In 1948 the Midwinter Edition, as it was then called, had grown to "7 big picture magazines in beautiful
rotogravure
Rotogravure (or gravure for short) is a type of intaglio printing process, which involves engraving the image onto an image carrier. In gravure printing, the image is engraved onto a cylinder because, like offset printing and flexography, it ...
reproduction." The last mention of the Midwinter Edition was in a ''Times'' advertisement on January 10, 1954.
Midsummer
Between 1891 and 1895, the ''Times'' also issued a similar Midsummer Number, the first one with the theme "The Land and Its Fruits". Because of its issue date in September, the edition was in 1891 called the Midsummer Harvest Number.
Zoned editions and subsidiaries
In 1903, the Pacific Wireless Telegraph Company established a radiotelegraph link between the California mainland and Santa Catalina Island. In the summer of that year, the ''Times'' made use of this link to establish a local daily paper, based in Avalon, called ''The Wireless'', which featured local news plus excerpts which had been transmitted via Morse code from the parent paper. However, this effort apparently survived for only a little more than one year.
In the 1990s, the ''Times'' published various editions catering to far-flung areas. Editions included those from the San Fernando Valley,
Ventura County
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Orange County
Orange County most commonly refers to:
*Orange County, California, part of the Los Angeles metropolitan area
Orange County may also refer to:
U.S. counties
*Orange County, Florida, containing Orlando
*Orange County, Indiana
*Orange County, New ...
,
San Diego County
San Diego County (), officially the County of San Diego, is a county in the southwestern corner of the U.S. state of California. As of the 2020 census, the population was 3,298,634, making it California's second-most populous county and the f ...
& a "National Edition" that was distributed to
Washington, D.C.
)
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, image_caption = Clockwise from top left: the Washington Monument and Lincoln Memorial on the National Mall, United States Capitol, Logan Circle, Jefferson Memorial, White House, Adams Morgan, ...
, and the
San Francisco Bay Area
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. The National Edition was closed in December 2004.
Some of these editions were succeeded by ''Our Times'', a group of community supplements included in editions of the regular Los Angeles Metro newspaper.
A subsidiary, Times Community Newspapers, publishes the ''
Daily Pilot
The ''Daily Pilot'' is a daily newspaper published by the ''Los Angeles Times'' to serve the communities of Sunset Beach, Huntington Beach, Fountain Valley, Newport Beach, Costa Mesa and Laguna Beach in Orange County, California.
The ''Daily Pi ...
'' of
Newport Beach
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and
Costa Mesa
Costa may refer to:
Biology
* Rib (Latin: ''costa''), in vertebrate anatomy
* Costa (botany), the central strand of a plant leaf or thallus
* Costa (coral), a stony rib, part of the skeleton of a coral
* Costa (entomology), the leading edge of th ...
. From 2011 to 2013, the ''Times'' had published the ''Pasadena Sun''. It also had published the '' Glendale News-Press'' and '' Burbank Leader'' from 1993 to 2020, and the ''La Cañada Valley Sun'' from 2005 to 2020.
On April 30, 2020, Charlie Plowman, publisher of Outlook Newspapers, announced he would acquire the ''Glendale News-Press'',
''Burbank Leader'' and ''La Cañada Valley Sun'' from Times Community Newspapers. Plowman acquired the ''South Pasadena Review'' and ''San Marino Tribune''
in late January 2020 from the Salter family, who owned and operated these two community weeklies.
Features
One of the ''Times'' features was "Column One", a feature that appeared daily on the front page to the left-hand side. Established in September 1968, it was a place for the weird and the interesting; in the ''How Far Can a Piano Fly?'' (a compilation of Column One stories) introduction,
Patt Morrison
Patt Morrison is a journalist, author, and radio-television personality based in Los Angeles and Southern California.
Media
Morrison is a writer for the ''Los Angeles Times'', with the weekly '' 'Patt Morrison Asks' '' column, and received the ...
wrote that the column's purpose was to elicit a "Gee, that's interesting, I didn't know that" type of reaction.
The ''Times'' also embarked on a number of
investigative journalism
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pieces. A series in December 2004 on the King/Drew Medical Center in Los Angeles led to a Pulitzer Prize and a more thorough coverage of the hospital's troubled history. Lopez wrote a five-part series on the civic and humanitarian disgrace of Los Angeles'
Skid Row
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, which became the focus of a 2009 motion picture, ''
The Soloist
''The Soloist'' is a 2009 drama film directed by Joe Wright, and starring Jamie Foxx and Robert Downey Jr. The plot is based on the true story of Nathaniel Ayers, a musician who developed schizophrenia and became homeless. The film was released i ...
.'' It also won 62 awards at the SND awards.
From 1967 to 1972, the ''Times'' produced a Sunday supplement called ''
West
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Etymology
The word "west" is a Germanic word passed into some ...
'' magazine. ''West'' was recognized for its art design, which was directed by Mike Salisbury (who later became art director of ''
Rolling Stone
''Rolling Stone'' is an American monthly magazine that focuses on music, politics, and popular culture. It was founded in San Francisco, California, in 1967 by Jann Wenner, and the music critic Ralph J. Gleason. It was first known for its ...
'' magazine).Heller, Steven "Go West, Young Art Director," ''Design Observer'' (Sept. 23, 2008). From 2000 to 2012, the ''Times'' published the ''
Los Angeles Times Magazine
The ''Los Angeles Times Magazine'' (also shortened to just ''LA'') was a monthly magazine which supplemented the Sunday edition of the ''Los Angeles Times'' newspaper on the first Sunday of the month. The magazine focused on stories and photos of ...
'', which started as a weekly and then became a monthly supplement. The magazine focused on stories and photos of people, places, style, and other cultural affairs occurring in
Los Angeles
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and its surrounding cities and communities. Since 2014, '' The California Sunday Magazine'' has been included in the Sunday ''L.A. Times'' edition.
University of California, Los Angeles
The University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) is a public land-grant research university in Los Angeles, California. UCLA's academic roots were established in 1881 as a teachers college then known as the southern branch of the California S ...
. It has panel discussions, exhibits, and stages during two days at the end of April each year. In 2011, the Festival of Books was moved to the
University of Southern California
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, religious_affiliation = Nonsectarian—historically Methodist
, established =
, accreditation = WSCUC
, type = Private research university
, academic_affiliations =
, endowment = $8.1 ...
.
Book prizes
Since 1980, the ''Times'' has awarded annual book prizes. The categories are now biography, current interest, fiction, first fiction, history, mystery/thriller, poetry, science and technology, and young adult fiction. In addition, the
Robert Kirsch Award
Since 1980, the ''Los Angeles Times'' has awarded a set of annual book prizes. The Prizes currently have nine categories: biography, current interest, fiction, first fiction (the Art Seidenbaum Award added in 1991), history, mystery/thriller ...
is presented annually to a living author with a substantial connection to the American West whose contribution to American letters deserves special recognition".
Riverside International Raceway
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The Times Mirror Corporation has also owned a number of book publishers over the years, including
New American Library
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and
C.V. Mosby
Mosby is an academic publisher of textbooks and academic journals based in the United States.
The C.V. Mosby Company was incorporated in 1906 in St. Louis Missouri.
Formerly independent, C.V. Mosby, Inc. was acquired by Times Mirror in 1967. In ...
New American Library
The New American Library (also known as NAL) is an American publisher based in New York, founded in 1948. Its initial focus was affordable paperback reprints of classics and scholarly works as well as popular and pulp fiction, but it now publish ...
, known for publishing affordable paperback reprints of classics and other scholarly works. The NAL continued to operate autonomously from New York and within the Mirror Company. In 1983, Odyssey Partners and Ira J. Hechler bought NAL from the Times Mirror Company for over $50 million.
In 1967, Times Mirror acquired C.V. Mosby Company, a professional publisher and merged it over the years with several other professional publishers including Resource Application, Inc., Year Book Medical Publishers, Wolfe Publishing Ltd., PSG Publishing Company, B.C. Decker, Inc., among others. Eventually in 1998 Mosby was sold to Harcourt Brace & Company to form the Elsevier Health Sciences group.
Broadcasting activities
The Times-Mirror Company was a founding owner of television station
KTTV
KTTV (channel 11) is a television station in Los Angeles, California, United States, serving as the West Coast flagship of the Fox network. It is owned and operated by the network's Fox Television Stations division alongside MyNetworkTV ou ...
in
Los Angeles
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, which opened in January 1949. It became that station's sole owner in 1951, after re-acquiring the minority shares it had sold to
CBS
CBS Broadcasting Inc., commonly shortened to CBS, the abbreviation of its former legal name Columbia Broadcasting System, is an American commercial broadcast television and radio network serving as the flagship property of the CBS Entertainm ...
in 1948. Times-Mirror also purchased a former motion picture studio,
Nassour Studios
Metromedia Square (later known as Fox Television Center from 1986 to 1996) was a radio and television studio facility located at 5746 Sunset Boulevard in Hollywood, Los Angeles, California on the southeastern corner of Sunset and Van Ness Avenue ...
, in Hollywood in 1950, which was then used to consolidate KTTV's operations. Later to be known as Metromedia Square, the studio was sold along with KTTV to
Metromedia
Metromedia (also often MetroMedia) was an American media company that owned radio and television stations in the United States from 1956 to 1986 and controlled Orion Pictures from 1988 to 1997. Metromedia was established in 1956 after the DuMon ...
in 1963.
After a seven-year hiatus from the medium, the firm reactivated Times-Mirror Broadcasting Company with its 1970 purchase of the '' Dallas Times Herald'' and its radio and television stations, KRLD-AM- FM-TV in
Dallas
Dallas () is the List of municipalities in Texas, third largest city in Texas and the largest city in the Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex, the List of metropolitan statistical areas, fourth-largest metropolitan area in the United States at 7.5 ...
. The
Federal Communications Commission
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granted an exemption of its cross-ownership policy and allowed Times-Mirror to retain the newspaper and the television outlet, which was renamed
KDFW-TV
KDFW (channel 4) is a television station licensed to Dallas, Texas, United States, broadcasting the Fox network to the Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex. It is owned and operated by the network's Fox Television Stations division alongside MyNe ...
.
Times-Mirror Broadcasting later acquired
KTBC-TV
KTBC (channel 7) is a television station in Austin, Texas, United States, airing programming from the Fox network. It is owned and operated by the network's Fox Television Stations division, and maintains studios on East 10th Street near the ...
in
Austin, Texas
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in 1973; and in 1980 purchased a group of stations owned by Newhouse Newspapers: WAPI-TV (now
WVTM-TV
WVTM-TV (channel 13) is a television station in Birmingham, Alabama, United States, affiliated with NBC. Owned by Hearst Television, the station maintains studios and transmitter facilities atop Red Mountain, between Vulcan Trail and Valley V ...
) in
Birmingham, Alabama
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;
KTVI
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in
St. Louis
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; WSYR-TV (now
WSTM-TV
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WHTM-TV
WHTM-TV (channel 27) is a television station licensed to Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, United States, serving the Susquehanna Valley region as an affiliate of ABC. Owned by Nexstar Media Group, the station maintains studios on North 6th Street in ...
) in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. The company also entered the field of cable television, servicing the
Phoenix
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* Phoenix (mythology), a legendary bird from ancient Greek folklore
* Phoenix, Arizona, a city in the United States
Phoenix may also refer to:
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and
San Diego
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areas, amongst others. They were originally titled Times-Mirror Cable, and were later renamed to Dimension Cable Television. Similarly, they also attempted to enter the pay-TV market, with the
Spotlight
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Lighting
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* Spotlight (theatre lighting)
* Spotlight, a searchlight
* Stage lighting instrument, stage lighting instruments, of several types
Art, entertainment, an ...
movie network; it wasn't successful and was quickly shut down. The cable systems were sold in the mid-1990s to Cox Communications.
Times-Mirror also pared its station group down, selling off the Syracuse, Elmira and Harrisburg properties in 1986. The remaining four outlets were packaged to a new upstart holding company, Argyle Television, in 1993. These stations were acquired by New World Communications shortly thereafter and became key components in a sweeping shift of network-station affiliations which occurred between 1994 and 1995.
Stations
Notes:
* 1 Co-owned with
CBS
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until 1951 in a
joint venture
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(51% owned by Times-Mirror, 49% owned by CBS);
* 2 Purchased along with KRLD-AM- FM as part of Times-Mirror's acquisition of the '' Dallas Times Herald''. Times-Mirror sold the radio stations to comply with FCC cross-ownership restrictions.
Employees
Unionization
On January 19, 2018, employees of the news department voted 248–44 in a National Labor Relations Board election to be represented by the NewsGuild-CWA. The vote came despite aggressive opposition from the paper's management team, reversing more than a century of anti-union sentiment at one of the biggest newspapers in the country.
Writers and editors
*
Dean Baquet
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, editor 2000–2007
* Martin Baron, assistant managing editor 1979–1996
* James Bassett, reporter, editor 1934–1971
*
Skip Bayless
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, sportswriter 1976–1978
* Barry Bearak, reporter 1982–1997
*
Jim Bellows
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(1922–2005), editor 1967–1974
*
Sheila Benson
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Early life and education
Benson was born in New York City on December 4, 193 ...
, film critic 1981–1991
*
Martin Bernheimer
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Harry Carr
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Charles Champlin
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(1926–2014), film critic 1965–1980
*
Sewell Chan
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, editor of the editorial page
*
Michael Cieply
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Michael Connelly
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Connelly is the bes ...
, crime reporter, novelist
*
Borzou Daragahi
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, Beirut bureau chief
*
Manohla Dargis
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Career
Before being a film critic for ''The New York Times'', ...
, film critic
*
Meghan Daum
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Childhood and education
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, columnist
* Anthony Day (1933–2007), op-ed writer, editor 1969–89
* Frank del Olmo (1948–2004), reporter, editor 1970–2004
* Al Delugach (1925–2015), reporter 1970–1989
*
Barbara Demick Barbara Demick is an American journalist. She was the Beijing bureau chief of the ''Los Angeles Times''. She is the author of ''Logavina Street: Life and Death in a Sarajevo Neighborhood'' (Andrews & McMeel, 1996). Her second book, '' Nothing to En ...
, Beijing bureau chief, author
*
Robert J. Donovan
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(1912–2003), Washington bureau chief
* Mike Downey, columnist 1985–2001
* Bob Drogin, national political reporter
* Roscoe Drummond (1902–1983), syndicated columnist
* E. V. Durling (1893–1957), columnist 1936–1939
* Bill Dwyre, sports editor and columnist 1981–2015
* Braven Dyer, sports reporter, sports editor 1925–1965
* Louis Dyer, reporter, editor ''LA Mirror'', ''Home Magazine'' 1934–1955
*
William J. Eaton
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(1930–2005), correspondent 1984–1994
*
Richard Eder
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* Andres Martinez, op-ed page editor 2004–2007
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Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting
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References
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Education
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in 2003
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*
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Early life
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* Kevin Thomas, film critic 1962–2005
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*
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, columnist, book critic
*
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, Washington correspondent 1970–1972
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Biography
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Pulitzer Prize
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in 1964, 1971, and 1984
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in 1999 and 2003
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Pulitzer Prize
The Pulitzer Prize () is an award for achievements in newspaper, magazine, online journalism, literature, and musical composition within the United States. It was established in 1917 by provisions in the will of Joseph Pulitzer, who had made h ...
in 1946
Photographers
* Don Bartletti,
Pulitzer Prize
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in 2003
*
Carolyn Cole
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Education
Cole gradu ...
,
Pulitzer Prize
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in 2004
* Rick Corrales (1957–2005), photographer 1981–1995
*
Mary Nogueras Frampton Mary Nogueras Frampton (1930–2006) was one of the first female photographers employed by the ''Los Angeles Times''. She was organizer of the Save Our Coast environmental organization.
Biography
Mary Nogueras was born in New York City in 1930 and ...
(1930-2006), one of the paper's first female photographers
* Jose Galvez, photographer 1980–1992
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John L. Gaunt, Jr.
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Born as the only child to a stockbroker, Gaunt moved and ...
(1924-2007),
Pulitzer Prize
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in 1955
*
Rick Loomis
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Richard F. Loomis was born and raised in Scott ...
George Strock
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, photojournalist of the 1930s
*
Annie Wells
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Life
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Pulitzer Prize
The Pulitzer Prize () is an award for achievements in newspaper, magazine, online journalism, literature, and musical composition within the United States. It was established in 1917 by provisions in the will of Joseph Pulitzer, who had made h ...
in 1998
See also
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References
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* Merrill, John C. and Harold A. Fisher. ''The world's great dailies: profiles of fifty newspapers'' (1980) pp 183–91
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