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The ''Los Angeles Times'' (abbreviated as ''LA Times'') is a daily newspaper that started publishing in Los Angeles in 1881. Based in the LA-adjacent suburb of El Segundo since 2018, it is the sixth-largest newspaper by circulation in the United States. The publication has won more than 40
Pulitzer Prizes 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 ma ...
. It is owned by Patrick Soon-Shiong and published by the Times Mirror Company. The newspaper’s coverage emphasizes California and especially Southern California stories. In the 19th century, the paper developed a reputation for civic boosterism and opposition to labor unions, 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, 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 and finalized their first union contract on October 16, 2019. The paper moved out of its historic downtown headquarters to a facility in El Segundo, near Los Angeles International Airport in July 2018.


History


Otis era

The ''Times'' was first published on December 4, 1881, as the ''Los Angeles Daily Times'', under the direction of
Nathan Cole Jr. Nathan Cole Jr. (1860–1921) was one of the two founders of the ''Los Angeles Daily Times,'' now the '' Los Angeles Times''. The son of Nathan Cole, a wealthy St. Louis, Missouri, politician and banker, he was 21 years old in 1881 when he and a ...
and Thomas Gardiner. It was first printed at the ''Mirror'' printing plant, owned by Jesse Yarnell and
T. J. Caystile Thomas J. Caystile, known as T.J. Caystile (1848–1884), was an American, printer and newspaperman, who, with his partners, Jesse Yarnell and S. J. Mathes, founded the ''Los Angeles Mirror'' and later took over the ''Los Angeles Daily Times,'' la ...
. Unable to pay the printing bill, Cole and Gardiner turned the paper over to the Mirror Company. In the meantime,
S. J. Mathes Samuel Jay Mathes (1849?–1927), known as S. J. Mathes, was a pioneer printer and newspaperman in Los Angeles, California, who in 1881 and 1882 directed the editorial policies of the newly established ''Los Angeles Daily Times,'' which late ...
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
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Otis made the ''Times'' a financial success. Historian
Kevin Starr Kevin Owen Starr (September 3, 1940 – January 14, 2017) was an American historian and California's state librarian, best known for his multi-volume series on the history of California, collectively called "Americans and the California Dream." ...
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, extolling the virtues of Los Angeles and promoting its growth. Toward those ends, the paper supported efforts to expand the city's water supply by acquiring the rights to the water supply of the distant Owens Valley. The efforts of the ''Times'' to fight local unions led to the bombing of its headquarters on October 1, 1910, killing twenty-one people. Two union leaders, James and Joseph McNamara, were charged. The American Federation of Labor hired noted trial attorney Clarence Darrow to represent the brothers, who eventually pleaded guilty. Otis fastened a bronze eagle on top of a high frieze of the new ''Times'' headquarters building designed by Gordon Kaufmann, 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 fou ...
, took control as publisher of the ''Times''. Harry Chandler was succeeded in 1944 by his son, Norman Chandler, 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 in her honor. Family members are buried at the Hollywood Forever Cemetery near Paramount Studios. 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 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 fou ...
, 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, 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'' and '' The Washington Post''. 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 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 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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/ref> #1912–1935, northeast corner First and Broadway, rebuilt as a four-story building with "castle-like" clock tower, opened 1912 #1935–2018, Times Mirror Square, the block bounded by First, Second,
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streets and Broadway, Downtown Los Angeles #2018–present, El Segundo, California


Modern era

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, publisher of the ''Los Angeles Times'', was purchased by the Tribune Company of Chicago, Illinois, 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's offer to buy the '' Chicago Tribune'', 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
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Chicago. Until shareholder approval was received, Los Angeles billionaires Ron Burkle and Eli Broad 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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'') to billionaire biotech investor Patrick Soon-Shiong. 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, 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 David Dean Hiller (born June 12, 1953) is a lawyer and former media executive for Chicago-based Tribune Company. On May 18, 2009, he was appointed president and CEO of the McCormick Foundation, a leading charitable organization with more than $1 ...
. 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 cross-promotions 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,
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, the publisher and chief executive, was replaced by Timothy E. Ryan. On October 5, 2015, the Poynter Institute 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
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topics, which she believed were increasingly relevant to Southern California; she cited the paper's attempted hiring of a "celebrity justice reporter" as an example of the wrong approach. On August 21, 2017,
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, then aged 54, was named publisher and CEO, replacing
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, who had been both publisher and editor. On June 16, 2018, the same day the sale to Patrick Soon-Shiong closed,
Norman Pearlstine Norman Pearlstine (born October 4, 1942) is an American editor and media executive. He previously held senior positions at the '' Los Angeles Times'', Time Inc, Bloomberg L.P., ''Forbes'' and ''The Wall Street Journal''. Early life and educatio ...
was named executive editor. On May 3, 2021, the newspaper announced that it had selected
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to be the new executive editor. Merida is a senior vice president at ESPN 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, 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. 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 relinquished day-to-day control in 1995. Willes, the former president of General Mills, 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. 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 site targeting live entertainment for young adults. A free weekly
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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 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
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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 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
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, the first Wiki 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 alleging that
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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 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 and conservative editorial cartoonist
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. The ''Times'' also came under controversy for its decision to drop the weekday edition of the '' Garfield'' 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
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's defeat in the 2006 mid-term elections, an Opinion piece by
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, a leading neoconservative and a resident scholar at the conservative American Enterprise Institute, 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'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'' critic Ty Burr, '' Washington Post'' blogger Alyssa Rosenberg, and the websites '' The A.V. Club'' and ''
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'', announced that they would boycott press screenings of future Disney films. The National Society of Film Critics, Los Angeles Film Critics Association, New York Film Critics Circle, and Boston Society of Film Critics 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 ettinga 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. * The ''Los Angeles Times'' received the 1984 Pulitzer Prize for Public Service for the newspaper series " Latinos". * ''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 an ...
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
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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, 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'' in 2002 (7) and '' The Washington Post'' in 2008 (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,
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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, California. * In 2019, three ''Los Angeles Times'' reporters –
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, Matt Hamilton and
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– 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 began publishing the ''
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'' as a direct morning competitor to the ''Times.'' In the 20th century, the '' Los Angeles Express'' was an afternoon competitor, as was
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's Los Angeles ''Daily News'', a Democratic newspaper.Red Ink, White Lies: The Rise and Fall of Los Angeles Newspapers, 1920–1962
by Rob Leicester Wagner, Dragonflyer Press, 2000.
By the mid-1940s, the ''Times'' was the leading newspaper in terms of circulation in the Los Angeles metropolitan area. 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 ''
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'' 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), hichstitched 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'' in 1923: In 1948 the Midwinter Edition, as it was then called, had grown to "7 big picture magazines in beautiful rotogravure 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, Inland Empire, Orange County, San Diego County & a "National Edition" that was distributed to Washington, D.C., and the San Francisco Bay Area. 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 ''
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'' of
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and Costa Mesa. From 2011 to 2013, the ''Times'' had published the ''Pasadena Sun''. It also had published the ''
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'' 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 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 pieces. A series in December 2004 on the
King/Drew Medical Center The Martin Luther King Jr. Outpatient Center, formerly known as Martin Luther King Jr. Multi-Service Ambulatory Care Center, Martin Luther King Jr./Drew Medical Center (King/Drew), and later Martin Luther King Jr.–Harbor Hospital (MLK–Harbor ...
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, 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 ...
.'' It also won 62 awards at the SND awards. From 1967 to 1972, the ''Times'' produced a Sunday supplement called '' West'' magazine. ''West'' was recognized for its art design, which was directed by Mike Salisbury (who later became art director of '' Rolling Stone'' 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'', 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 and its surrounding cities and communities. Since 2014, ''
The California Sunday Magazine ''The California Sunday Magazine'' was a longform Sunday magazine featuring stories about the Western United States, Latin America, and Asia. In June 2021 it won a Pulitzer Prize, eight months after the magazine ceased publication. The prize wa ...
'' has been included in the Sunday ''L.A. Times'' edition.


Promotion


Festival of Books

In 1996, the ''Times'' started the annual
Los Angeles Times Festival of Books The ''Los Angeles Times'' Festival of Books is a free, public festival celebrating the written word. It is the largest book festival in the United States, annually drawing approximately 150,000 attendees. Started in 1996, the Festival is hel ...
, in association with the University of California, Los Angeles. 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.


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 A biography, or simply bio, is a detailed description of a person's life. It involves more than just the ...
is presented annually to a living author with a substantial connection to the American West whose contribution to American letters deserves special recognition".


Los Angeles Times Grand Prix

From 1957 to 1987, the ''Times'' sponsored the
Los Angeles Times Grand Prix The Los Angeles Times Grand Prix was a sports car race held at the Riverside International Raceway. The race was held throughout the track's existence, from 1957 until 1987. The race was sponsored by the ''Los Angeles Times'' to raise money for ...
that was held over at the Riverside International Raceway in Moreno Valley, California.


Other media


Book publishing

The Times Mirror Corporation has also owned a number of book publishers over the years, including New American Library and C.V. Mosby, as well as
Harry N. Abrams Abrams, formerly Harry N. Abrams, Inc. (HNA), is an American publisher of art and illustrated books, children's books, and stationery. The enterprise is a subsidiary of the French publisher La Martinière Groupe. Run by President and CEO Michae ...
,
Matthew Bender LexisNexis is a part of the RELX corporation that sells data analytics products and various databases that are accessed through online portals, including portals for computer-assisted legal research (CALR), newspaper search, and consumer informa ...
, and Jeppesen. In 1960, Times Mirror of Los Angeles bought the book publisher New American Library, 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 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 ...
, 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 in Los Angeles, 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 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 Av ...
, 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 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. The Federal Communications Commission 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. Times-Mirror Broadcasting later acquired KTBC-TV in Austin, Texas in 1973; and in 1980 purchased a group of stations owned by
Newhouse Newspapers Advance Publications, Inc., doing business as Advance, is an American media company owned by the descendants of S.I. Newhouse Sr., Donald Newhouse and S.I. Newhouse Jr. It owns a large number of subsidiary companies, including Condé Nast, and ...
: WAPI-TV (now WVTM-TV) in Birmingham, Alabama; KTVI in St. Louis; WSYR-TV (now WSTM-TV) in Syracuse, New York and its satellite station WSYE-TV (now WETM-TV) in Elmira, New York; and WTPA-TV (now WHTM-TV) in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. The company also entered the field of cable television, servicing the Phoenix and San Diego 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 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 New World Pictures (also known as New World Entertainment and New World Communications Group, Inc.) was an American independent production, distribution, and (in its final years as an autonomous entity) multimedia company. It was founded in 197 ...
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 until 1951 in a joint venture (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, editor 2000–2007 * Martin Baron, assistant managing editor 1979–1996 * James Bassett, reporter, editor 1934–1971 *
Skip Bayless Skip Bayless (born John Edward Bayless II) is an American sports columnist, commentator, and television personality. He is well-known for his work as a commentator on the ESPN2 show '' First Take'' with Stephen A. Smith, a show which he left i ...
, sportswriter 1976–1978 *
Barry Bearak Barry Leon Bearak (born August 31, 1949, in Chicago) is an American journalist and educator who has worked as a reporter and correspondent for ''The Miami Herald'', the ''Los Angeles Times'', and ''The New York Times''. He taught journalism as ...
, reporter 1982–1997 * Jim Bellows (1922–2005), editor 1967–1974 * Sheila Benson, film critic 1981–1991 *
Martin Bernheimer Martin Bernheimer (28 September 1936 – 29 September 2019) was a German-born American music critic. Described as "a widely respected and influential critic, who is particularly knowledgeable about opera and the voice", Bernheimer was the chie ...
, music critic, 1982 Pulitzer Prize for Criticism *
Bettina Boxall Bettina Boxall (born 1952) is an American journalist who covered water issues and the environment for the '' Los Angeles Times''. She is a recipient of a Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Reporting. She graduated in 1974, with honors, from the U ...
, reporter,
2009 Pulitzer Prize The 2009 Pulitzer Prizes were announced on April 20, 2009, the 93rd annual awards. ''The New York Times'' won five awards this year, with the ''Tampa Bay Times'' (formerly the ''St. Petersburg Times'') being the only other multi-prize winner with t ...
*
Jeff Brazil Jeff Brazil is a Pulitzer Prize-winning American journalist, writer, and editor who received, along with fellow journalist Steve Berry, the Pulitzer Prize for Investigative Journalism in 1993 for a series of articles published in the Orlando Sen ...
, reporter 1993–2000 *
Harry Carr __NOTOC__ Harry C. Carr (1877–1936) was an American reporter, editor and columnist for the ''Los Angeles Times.'' In 1934 he was given an honorable mention by a Pulitzer Prize committee on awards. When a heart attack claimed his life at the ag ...
(1877–1936), reporter, columnist, editor * John Carroll, editor 2000–2005 *
Julie Cart Julie Cart, born in Louisiana, is an American journalist. She won the 2009 Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Reporting, with her colleague, Bettina Boxall, for their series of stories looking at the cost and effectiveness of combating wildfires in th ...
, reporter,
2009 Pulitzer Prize The 2009 Pulitzer Prizes were announced on April 20, 2009, the 93rd annual awards. ''The New York Times'' won five awards this year, with the ''Tampa Bay Times'' (formerly the ''St. Petersburg Times'') being the only other multi-prize winner with t ...
*
Charles Champlin Charles Davenport Champlin (March 23, 1926 – November 16, 2014) was an American film critic and writer. Life and career Champlin was born in Hammondsport, New York. He attended high school in Camden, New York, working as a columnist for the ...
(1926–2014), film critic 1965–1980 * Sewell Chan, editor of the editorial page *
Michael Cieply Michael Cieply (born 1951) is an entertainment industry writer, first for '' The Wall Street Journal'' and then for ''Talk'' magazine and as a media correspondent for '' The New York Times''. Here he covers Hollywood for the media desk. He joine ...
, entertainment writer *
Shelby Coffey III __NOTOC__ Charles Shelby Coffey III (born either 1946 or 1947) is a journalist and business executive from Lookout Mountain, Tennessee, who is now a senior fellow of the Freedom Forum and a trustee of the Newseum in Washington, D.C. He was edito ...
, editor 1989–1997 *
K. C. Cole K. C. Cole (born August 22, 1946) is an American science writer, author, radio commentator and professor emerita at the USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism. She has covered science for ''The Los Angeles Times'' since 1994, as w ...
, science writer *
Michael Connelly Michael Joseph Connelly (born July 21, 1956) is an American author of detective novels and other crime fiction, notably those featuring LAPD Detective Hieronymus "Harry" Bosch and criminal defense attorney Mickey Haller. Connelly is the bestse ...
, crime reporter, novelist * Borzou Daragahi, Beirut bureau chief * Manohla Dargis, film critic * Meghan Daum, columnist *
Anthony Day Anthony Day (May 12, 1933 – September 2, 2007) was an American journalist, former editorial page editor for the ''Los Angeles Times'', and editor of Henry Kissinger's work for over 25 years. Early life Anthony Day was born in Miami, Florida, ...
(1933–2007), op-ed writer, editor 1969–89 *
Frank del Olmo Frank del Olmo (May 18, 1948 — February 19, 2004) was an editor, columnist and reporter for the Los Angeles Times, where he started as an intern in 1970. He graduated magna cum laude from California State University, Northridge with a degree in ...
(1948–2004), reporter, editor 1970–2004 *
Al Delugach Albert Lawrence Delugach (October 27, 1925 – January 4, 2015) was an American journalist. He won the Pulitzer Prize in 1969 and the Gerald Loeb Award in 1984. He spent nearly 4 decades as a reporter. He spent the first half of his career working ...
(1925–2015), reporter 1970–1989 * Barbara Demick, Beijing bureau chief, author * Robert J. Donovan (1912–2003), Washington bureau chief * Mike Downey, columnist 1985–2001 *
Bob Drogin Bob Drogin (29 March 1952) is an American journalist and author. He worked for the '' Los Angeles Times,'' for nearly four decades. Drogin began his career with the ''Times'' as a national correspondent, based in New York, traveling to nearly ev ...
, national political reporter *
Roscoe Drummond Roscoe Drummond (1902–1983) was a 20th-century American political journalist, editor, and syndicated Washington columnist, known for his long association with ''The Christian Science Monitor'' and 50-year syndicated column "State of the Nation ...
(1902–1983), syndicated columnist *
E. V. Durling Edgar Vincent Durling (1893–1957), usually known as E. V. Durling, was one of the first journalists to cover the Hollywood motion picture industry and later became a nationally syndicated newspaper columnist in the United States, with his colum ...
(1893–1957), columnist 1936–1939 *
Bill Dwyre Bill Dwyre (born April 7, 1944, in Sheboygan, Wisconsin) is a sportswriter and former newspaper sports editor. Notable for his long tenure as sports editor of the '' Los Angeles Times'' beginning in June 1981, he moved to the writing ranks full-t ...
, sports editor and columnist 1981–2015 *
Braven Dyer ''Braven'' is a 2018 action thriller film directed by Lin Oeding and written by Mike Nilon and Thomas Pa'a Sibbett. The film stars Jason Momoa as Joe Braven, with Garret Dillahunt, Stephen Lang, Jill Wagner, and Brendan Fletcher. Principal photo ...
, sports reporter, sports editor 1925–1965 *
Louis Dyer Louis Dyer (1851–1908) was an American educator and author born in Chicago in the U.S. state of Illinois. He graduated at Harvard University in 1874, and at Balliol College, Oxford, in 1878. He was assistant professor of Greek at Harvard (18 ...
, reporter, editor ''LA Mirror'', ''Home Magazine'' 1934–1955 * William J. Eaton (1930–2005), correspondent 1984–1994 *
Richard Eder Richard Gray Eder (August 16, 1932 – November 21, 2014) was an American film reviewer and a drama critic. Life and career For 20 years, he was variously a foreign correspondent, a film reviewer and the drama critic for '' The New York Times''. ...
(1932–2014), book critic, 1987 Pulitzer Prize for Criticism *
Gordon Edes Gordon Edes (born Sept. 24, 1954) is an American sportswriter who as a beat reporter covered all four major professional U.S. leagues (MLB, NFL, NBA, NHL) in the course of a nearly 40-year career that began in 1976 with the '' Chicago Tribune' ...
, sportswriter 1980–1989 *
Helene Elliott Helene Elliott is an American sportswriter for the ''Los Angeles Times'' who is a general sports columnist. She is the first female journalist to receive the Elmer Ferguson Memorial Award in 2005 for bringing "honor to journalism and to hockey". Sh ...
, sports columnist * Leonard Feather (1914–1994), jazz critic * Dexter Filkins, foreign correspondent 1996–1999 *
Nikki Finke Nikki Jean Finke (December 16, 1953 – October 9, 2022) was an American blogger, journalist, publisher, and writer. She was a consultant to Penske Business Media LLC and senior editorial contributor for PBM run by media owner Jay Penske. She ...
, entertainment reporter *
Thomas Francis Ford Thomas Francis Ford (February 18, 1873 – December 26, 1958) was an American politician, journalist, and editor who served as a member of the U.S. House of Representatives from California from 1933 to 1945. He was previously a member of t ...
(1873–1958), U.S. Congress member, literary and rotogravure editor, City Council member * Douglas Frantz, managing editor 2005–2007 *
Jeffrey Gettleman Jeffrey A. Gettleman (born 1971) is an American Pulitzer prize-winning journalist. Since 2018, he has been the South Asia bureau chief of The New York Times based in New Delhi. From 2006-July 2017, he was East Africa bureau chief for ''The Times ...
, Atlanta bureau chief 1999–2002 *
Jonathan Gold Jonathan Gold (July 28, 1960 – July 21, 2018) was an American food critic and music critic. He was for many years the chief food critic for the '' Los Angeles Times'' and also wrote for '' LA Weekly'' and ''Gourmet'', in addition to serving as ...
, food writer,
2007 Pulitzer Prize The Pulitzer Prizes for 2007 were announced on April 16, 2007.The Pulitzer Prize Winners for 2007
from th ...
*
Patrick Goldstein Patrick Goldstein is an American former film critic and columnist for the ''Los Angeles Times'' who wrote about movies in a column titled ''The Big Picture''. Colleague Tom O'Neil described him as the newspaper's "chief Oscarologist" as his colum ...
, film columnist 2000–2012 *
Carl Greenberg Carl Greenberg (August 19, 1908 – November 4, 1984) was an American newspaper reporter who began as a police reporter; most of his career he was a reporter covering California and U.S. national politics. He worked for the ''Los Angeles Examiner ...
(1908–1984), political writer *
Jean Guerrero Jean Carolyn Guerrero (born March 31, 1988) is an American investigative journalist, author, essayist, columnist and former foreign correspondent. She is the author of ''Crux: A Cross-Border Memoir,'' winner of the PEN/FUSION Emerging Writers Pr ...
, opinion columnist *
Joyce Haber Joyce Haber (1931–1993) was an American gossip columnist who worked for the '' Los Angeles Times''. Haber was one of Hollywood's last powerful gossip columnists who "were capable of canonizing a film or destroying a star". She took over the ol ...
, gossip columnist 1966–1975 * Bill Henry (1890–1970), columnist 1939–1970 *
Robert Hilburn Robert Hilburn (born September 25, 1939) is an American pop music critic, author, and radio host. As critic and music editor at the '' Los Angeles Times'' from 1970 to 2005, his reviews, essays and profiles appeared in publications around the wo ...
, music writer 1970–2005 * Shani Olisa Hilton, deputy managing editor *
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 ...
, investigative reporter, 1999 Pulitzer Prize for Beat Reporting * Hedda Hopper (1885–1966), Hollywood columnist 1938–1966 * L. D. Hotchkiss (1893–1964), editor 1922–1958 * Pete Johnson, rock critic of the 1960s *
David Cay Johnston David Cay Boyle Johnston (born December 24, 1948) is an American investigative journalist and author, a specialist in economics and tax issues, and winner of the 2001 Pulitzer Prize for Beat Reporting. From July 2011 until September 2012 he was ...
, reporter 1976–1988 * Jonathan Kaiman, Asia correspondent 2015–2016 * K. Connie Kang (1942–2019) first female Korean American journalist *
Philip P. Kerby Philip P. Kerby (1911–1993) was an American editorial writer who worked for the '' Los Angeles Times'' from 1971 to 1985. He won the Pulitzer Prize for editorial writing in 1976. With only a high school education, Kerby was "regarded as highl ...
, 1976 Pulitzer Prize for Criticism *
Ann Killion Ann Killion is an American sports journalist and author. She has written for ''Sports Illustrated, San Francisco Chronicle'', Comcast Sportsnet, ''San Jose Mercury News,'' and ''Los Angeles Times''. She is the co-author of two books with Olympic ...
, sportswriter 1987–1988 *
Grace Kingsley Grace Kingsley (August 10, 1873 – October 8, 1962) was the first motion-picture editor and columnist of the ''Los Angeles Times,'' beginning the position in 1914 and ending when she retired in 1933. Life Kingsley was born in Lansing, Michigan, ...
(1874–1962), film columnist 1914–1933 * Michael Kinsley, op-ed page editor 2004–2005 * Christopher Knight, art critic, 2020 Pulitzer Prize for Criticism * William Knoedelseder, business writer *
Howard Lachtman Howard Lawrence Lachtman (born July 8, 1941) is an American academic, literary critic, editor and author, who has written extensively on the life and works of Jack London, Arthur Conan Doyle, and on crime fiction as a whole. Early life and ca ...
, literary critic * David Lamb (1940–2016), correspondent 1970–2004 *
David Laventhol David Abram Laventhol (July 15, 1933 – April 8, 2015) was an American newspaper editor and publisher at '' The Washington Post'', '' Newsday'' and the '' Los Angeles Times''. He was known for his work designing newspapers, most notably as first ...
(1933–2015), publisher 1989–1994 * David Lazarus, business columnist *
Rick Loomis Rick Loomis (August 24, 1946 – August 23, 2019) was an American game designer, most notable as the founder of game publisher Flying Buffalo, which he managed until his death. Career Early years Richard F. Loomis was born and raised in Scotts ...
, photojournalist, 2007 Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Reporting *
Stuart Loory Stuart Hugh Loory (May 22, 1932 – January 16, 2015) was an American journalist and educator. Early and education Loory was born in Wilson, Pennsylvania. He grew up in Dover, New Jersey, where his parents, Harry and Eve Loory, owned a large f ...
(1937–2015), White House correspondent 1967–1971 * Steve Lopez, columnist * Charles Fletcher Lummis (1859–1928), city editor 1884–1888 *
Al Martinez Al Martinez (July 21, 1929January 12, 2015) was a columnist for the ''Los Angeles Times''. He also was known for his writings for several television shows, such as ''Hawaii Five-O'' in 1978, the short-lived 1980 police drama '' B.A.D. Cats'', and ...
(1929–2015), columnist 1984–2009 * Andres Martinez, op-ed page editor 2004–2007 * Dennis McDougal, reporter 1982–1992 * Usha Lee McFarling, reporter, 2007 Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Reporting *
Kristine McKenna Kristine McKenna is an American journalist, critic and art curator best known for her interviews with artists, writers, thinkers, filmmakers and musicians. Many of these have been collected in ''Book of Changes'' (2001) and ''Talk to Her'' (2004 ...
, music journalist 1977–1998 *
Mary McNamara Mary McNamara (born 1963) is an American journalist and television critic for the ''Los Angeles Times''. She won the 2015 Pulitzer Prize for Criticism. Biography McNamara moved from Baltimore to Westminster in elementary school. She graduated fro ...
, TV critic, 2015 Pulitzer Prize for Criticism *
Doyle McManus Doyle McManus (born May 5, 1953) is an American journalist, columnist (for the ''Los Angeles Times''), Document Number: A188862699. who appears often on Public Broadcasting Service's ''Washington Week''. Early life Doyle Daniel McManus is t ...
, Washington bureau chief *
Charles McNulty Charles McNulty (born 1966) is the chief theatre critic for the '' Los Angeles Times'' newspaper and a recipient of Cornell University's prestigious Nathan Award for dramatic criticism, who, himself, served as chairman of the Pulitzer Prize d ...
, theater critic * Alan Miller, 2003 Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting * T. Christian Miller, investigative journalist 1999–2008 * Kay Mills, editorial writer 1978–1991 * Carolina Miranda, arts and culture critic 2014–present * J.R. Moehringer, feature writing, 2000
Pulitzer Prize for Feature Writing The Pulitzer Prize for Feature Writing is one of the fourteen American Pulitzer Prizes that are annually awarded for Journalism. It has been awarded since 1979 for a distinguished example of feature writing giving prime consideration to high lite ...
* Patt Morrison, columnist *
Suzanne Muchnic Suzanne Muchnic (born 1940) is an art writer who was a staff art reporter and art critic at the '' Los Angeles Times'' for 31 years. She has also written books on artists, collectors, and museums. Academic career Muchnic is a graduate of Scrip ...
, art critic 1978–2009 * Kim Murphy, assistant managing editor for foreign and national news,
2005 Pulitzer Prize The Pulitzer Prizes for 2005 were announced on 2005-04-04. Journalism *Beat reporting: Amy Dockser Marcus of ''The Wall Street Journal'' for her "stories about patients, families and physicians f theworld of cancer survivors". * Breaking news pho ...
* Jim Murray (1919–1998), sports columnist, 1990 Pulitzer Prize for Commentary * Sonia Nazario, feature writing,
2003 Pulitzer Prize Winners of the Pulitzer Prize in 2003 were: Journalism awards Letters, Drama and Music Awards References External links * "The Pulitzer Prizes" '' The New York Times''. "Washington Post and Los Angeles Times Each Win Three Pulitzer Prizes" ...
* Dan Neil, columnist, 2004 Pulitzer Prize for Criticism *
Chuck Neubauer Chuck Neubauer (born 13 February 1950) is an American investigative reporter and journalist. He has written for Chicago newspapers including ''Chicago Today'', the '' Chicago Tribune'', the ''Chicago Sun-Times'', and other news organizations incl ...
, investigative journalist * Ross Newhan, baseball writer 1967–2004 * Jack Nelson (1929–2009), political reporter, 1960 Pulitzer Prize for Local Reporting1960 Winners
The Pulitzer Prizes
* Anne-Marie O'Connor, reporter * Nicolai Ouroussoff, architectural critic * Scot J. Paltrow, financial journalist 1988–1997 *
Olive Percival Olive May Graves Percival (July 1, 1868 – February 18, 1945) was a writer, photographer, gardener, artist, and bibliophile in Los Angeles. Although she earned her living as an insurance clerk, she wrote for a variety of magazines, authored seve ...
, columnist *
Bill Plaschke William Paul Plaschke (born September 6, 1958, in Louisville, Kentucky) is an American sports journalist who has written for the ''Los Angeles Times'' since 1987. Biography As a child he attended St. Albert the Great Elementary School in Louisvil ...
, sports columnist * Michael Parks, foreign correspondent, editor, 1987 Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting * Russ Parsons, food writer *
Mike Penner Michael Daniel Penner (October 10, 1957 – November 27, 2009) was an American sportswriter for the ''Los Angeles Times''. Penner self-identified as transsexual in a 2007 column; soon afterward he returned from a vacation writing with the nam ...
(1957–2009) ( Christine Daniels), sportswriter *
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 an ...
, investigative reporter, 1999 Pulitzer Prize for Beat Reporting * Michael Phillips, film critic *
Charles T. Powers Charles T. Powers (1943–1996) was an American journalist and writer, chiefly remembered for his novel '' In the Memory of the Forest'', set in Poland. A native of Missouri, Powers began his writing career at the '' Kansas City Star''. He wa ...
, foreign correspondent, later novelist *
George Ramos Latinos is a 27-part newspaper series on southern California's Latino community and culture of the early 1980s. The '' Los Angeles Times'' won the 1984 Pulitzer Prize for Public Service for the series. The winning team of two editors and 11 repo ...
(1947–2011), reporter 1978–2003 *
Richard Read Richard Read (born 1957) is a freelance reporter based in Seattle, where he was a national reporter and bureau chief for the Los Angeles Times from 2019 to 2021. A two-time Pulitzer Prize winner, he was a senior writer and foreign correspondent for ...
, reporter,
1999 Pulitzer Prize The Pulitzer Prizes for 1999 were announced on April 12, 1999. Journalism awards * Public Service: **'' The Washington Post'', for its series that identified and analyzed patterns of reckless gunplay by city police officers who had little trai ...
2001 Pulitzer Prize The 2001 Pulitzer Prizes were announced on April 16, 2001. Journalism awards Letters awards *Fiction: **'' The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay'' by Michael Chabon (Random House) *History: **'' Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generati ...
* Ruth Reichl, restaurant and food writer 1984–1993 * Rick Reilly, sportswriter 1983–1985 * James Risen, investigative journalist 1984–1998 * Howard Rosenberg, TV critic, 1985 Pulitzer Prize for Criticism *
Tim Rutten Tim Rutten is an American journalist with the ''Los Angeles Daily News''. He worked for the ''Los Angeles Times'' for nearly 40 years between 1971 and 2011. Education A native of San Bernardino, California, he majored in political science at Calif ...
, columnist 1971–2011 *
Harriet Ryan Harriet Ryan is an American investigative journalist for the ''Los Angeles Times''. She is one of the recipients of the Pulitzer Prize for Investigative Reporting in 2019. Biography Ryan grew up in Pennsylvania and attended Lancaster Catholic H ...
, Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative reporter *
Ruth Ryon Ruth E. Ryon (July 16, 1944 – March 28, 2014) was a celebrity real estate columnist for the ''Los Angeles Times'', who retired in April 2008 after more than 23 years of writing the paper's popular "Hot Property" celebrity real estate column. Ryon ...
(1944–2014), real estate writer 1977–2008 * Morrie Ryskind, feature writer 1960–1971 *
Kevin Sack Kevin Sack, an American journalist, is a senior reporter for '' The New York Times''. Sack shared a Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting in 2001 for a ''New York Times'' series on race. While at The Los Angeles Times, he received the 2003 Puli ...
, Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting in 2003 * Ruben Salazar (1928–1970), reporter, correspondent 1959–70 * Robert Scheer, national correspondent 1976–1993 * Lee Shippey (1884–1969), columnist 1927–1949 * David Shaw (1943–2005), 1991 Pulitzer Prize for Criticism *
Gaylord Shaw Gaylord Dewayne Shaw (July 22, 1942 – September 6, 2015) was an American journalist who won a Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting in 1978. Early life and education Shaw was born on July 22, 1942, in El Reno, Oklahoma. He attended Cameron Col ...
, reporter,
1978 Pulitzer Prize The following are the Pulitzer Prizes for 1978. Journalism awards * Public Service: **'' The Philadelphia Inquirer'', for a series of articles showing abuses of power by the police in its home city. * Local General or Spot News Reporting: ** Ric ...
* Gene Sherman (1915–1969), reporter,
1960 Pulitzer Prize The following are the Pulitzer Prizes for 1960. Journalism awards *Public Service: ** The ''Los Angeles Times'', for its thorough, sustained and well-conceived attack on narcotics traffic and the enterprising reporting of Gene Sherman, which led ...
* Barry Siegel, feature writing,
2002 Pulitzer Prize A listing of the Pulitzer Prize award winners for 2002: Journalism * Public Service: **''The New York Times'', for ''A Nation Challenged,'' a special section published regularly after the September 11th terrorist attacks on America, which coherentl ...
*
T. J. Simers T. J. Simers (born September 2, 1950) is an American sports columnist who worked for the ''Los Angeles Times'' from 1990 to 2013 before accepting a position at the Orange County Register where he worked until accepting a voluntary buyout. He atte ...
, sports columnist 1990–2013 * Jack Smith (1916–1996), columnist 1953–1996 *
Bob Sipchen Bob Sipchen (born June 13, 1953)"The 2002 Pulitzer Prize Winne ...
, editorial writing,
2002 Pulitzer Prize A listing of the Pulitzer Prize award winners for 2002: Journalism * Public Service: **''The New York Times'', for ''A Nation Challenged,'' a special section published regularly after the September 11th terrorist attacks on America, which coherentl ...
*
Frank Sotomayor Latinos is a 27-part newspaper series on southern California's Latino community and culture of the early 1980s. The '' Los Angeles Times'' won the 1984 Pulitzer Prize for Public Service for the series. The winning team of two editors and 11 repo ...
, reporter, editor * Bill Stall (1937–2008), editorial writing, 2004 Pulitzer Prize * Joel Stein, columnist * Jill Stewart, reporter 1984–1991 * Rone Tempest, investigative reporter 1976–2007 * Kevin Thomas, film critic 1962–2005 * William F. Thomas (1924–2014), editor 1971–1989 * Hector Tobar, columnist, book critic * William Tuohy (1926–2009), foreign correspondent, 1969 Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting * Kenneth Turan, film critic * Julia Turner, deputy managing editor *
Peter Wallsten Peter Wallsten is an American journalist and author who is currently a senior politics editor at ''The Washington Post''. He was previously a White House correspondent. Early life and education Wallsten was brought up in Chapel Hill, North Caroli ...
, national political reporter *
Matt Weinstock __NOTOC__ Matt Weinstock (1903–1970) was a managing editor of the ''Los Angeles Illustrated Daily News'' and a columnist for three Los Angeles, California, newspapers for 33 years. Weinstock, the son of Frank Weinstock, a clothing manufacture ...
(1903–1970), columnist * Kenneth R. Weiss, 2007 Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Reporting * Nick Williams (1906–1992), editor 1958–1971 *
David Willman David Willman (born October 18, 1956) is an American Pulitzer Prize winning investigative journalist. Biography Early life and education Willman was born in California and graduated from San Jose State University with a B.A. in Journalism in ...
, 2001 Pulitzer Prize for Investigative Reporting *
Michael Wines Stephen Michael Wines (born June 3, 1951) is an American journalist. He is a national correspondent for ''The New York Times'' at present. Wines was previously the Times bureau chief in China, Johannesburg and Moscow.
, correspondent 1984–1988 * Jules Witcover, Washington correspondent 1970–1972 * Gene Wojciechowski, sportswriter 1986–1996 * Willard Huntington Wright (1888–1939), literary editor *
Kimi Yoshino Kimi Yoshino is an American journalist and the editor-in-chief of the ''Baltimore Banner'', a nonprofit publication funded by Baltimore-area hotel magnate Stewart Bainum Jr. Biography Yoshino worked at the ''Stockton Record'' and the ''Fresno ...
, managing editor


Cartoonists

* Paul Francis Conrad (1924–2010), Pulitzer Prize in 1964, 1971, and 1984 * Ted Rall * David Horsey, Pulitzer Prize in 1999 and 2003 * Frank Interlandi (1924–2010) * Michael Patrick Ramirez, Pulitzer Prize in 1994 and 2008 * Bruce Russell (1903-1963), Pulitzer Prize in 1946


Photographers

* Don Bartletti, Pulitzer Prize in 2003 * Carolyn Cole, Pulitzer Prize 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 an ...
(1930-2006), one of the paper's first female photographers * Jose Galvez, photographer 1980–1992 *
John L. Gaunt, Jr. John L. Gaunt (June 4, 1924 in Syracuse, New York – October 26, 2007 in Desert Hot Springs, California) was an American photographer. He won the 1955 Pulitzer Prize for Photography. Born as the only child to a stockbroker, Gaunt moved and ...
(1924-2007), Pulitzer Prize in 1955 *
Rick Loomis Rick Loomis (August 24, 1946 – August 23, 2019) was an American game designer, most notable as the founder of game publisher Flying Buffalo, which he managed until his death. Career Early years Richard F. Loomis was born and raised in Scotts ...
, photojournalist,
2007 Pulitzer Prize The Pulitzer Prizes for 2007 were announced on April 16, 2007.The Pulitzer Prize Winners for 2007
from th ...
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Anacleto Rapping Anacleto Rapping (November 26, 1954 – September 17, 2017) was an American photographer and pedagogue. Education Anacleto Rapping studied journalism at San Jose State University (class of 1978). Career As a staff photographer at the '' Los An ...
, multiple Pulitzer Prizes * George Rose, photojournalist 1977–1983 * George Strock, photojournalist of the 1930s *
Annie Wells Annie Wells (born March 24, 1954) is an American photographer, winner of a Pulitzer Prize for Spot News Photography. Life She graduated from University of California, Santa Cruz with a B.A. in 1981, and studied photojournalism at San Francisco St ...
, photojournalist 1997–2008 * Clarence Williams , Pulitzer Prize in 1998


See also

* Victorian Downtown Los Angeles


References


Further reading

* * * * * * Merrill, John C. and Harold A. Fisher. ''The world's great dailies: profiles of fifty newspapers'' (1980) pp 183–91 *


External links

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Photographic Archive ca. 1918–1990 (Charles E. Young Research Library, UCLA-Finding Aid)

Article for the ''Los Angeles Beat'' about the ''Los Angeles Times'' guided tour
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''Los Angeles Times'' Photographic Archive (UCLA Library Digital Collections)
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Los Angeles Times Photographic Archive (UCLA Library Guide)
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