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Los Angeles Times

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, [3] it is the sixth-largest newspaper by circulation in the United States.[4] The publication has won more than 40 Pulitzer Prizes. It is owned by Patrick Soon-Shiong and published by the Times Mirror Company.[5] [6][7]The newspaper’s coverage emphasizes California and especially Southern California stories.

Los Angeles Times
The July 10, 2021, front page
of the Los Angeles Times
TypeDaily newspaper
FormatBroadsheet
Owner(s)Los Angeles Times Communications LLC (Nant Capital)
Founder(s)
PresidentDr. Patrick Soon-Shiong
EditorKevin Merida
FoundedDecember 4, 1881; 141 years ago (1881-12-04) (as Los Angeles Daily Times)
LanguageEnglish
Headquarters2300 E. Imperial Highway
El Segundo, California 90245
CountryUnited States
Circulation142,382 Average print circulation[1]
105,000 Digital (2018)[2]
ISSN0458-3035 (print)
2165-1736 (web)
OCLC number3638237
Websitelatimes.com

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.[8] The paper moved out of its historic downtown headquarters to a facility in El Segundo, near Los Angeles International Airport in July 2018.

History

 
Chandler and Otis in 1917

Otis era

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.[9] Otis made the Times a financial success.

Historian Kevin Starr wrote that Otis was a businessman "capable of manipulating the entire apparatus of politics and public opinion for his own enrichment".[10] 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.[11]

 
Rubble of the L.A. Times building after the 1910 bombing

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".[12][13]

Chandler era

After Otis's death in 1917, his son-in-law, Harry Chandler, 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, 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, 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".[14]

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",[15] 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.[16]

The paper's early history and subsequent transformation was chronicled in an unauthorized history, Thinking Big (1977, ISBN 0-399-11766-0), and was one of four organizations profiled by David Halberstam in The Powers That Be (1979, ISBN 0-394-50381-3; 2000 reprint ISBN 0-252-06941-2). It has also been the whole or partial subject of nearly thirty dissertations in communications or social science in the past four decades.[17]

Former Times buildings

  1. 1881–1886, Temple and New High streets in the Los Angeles central business district[18]
  2. 1886–1910, northeast corner First and Broadway, Los Angeles central business district, destroyed in a bombing in 1910[18]
  3. 1912–1935, northeast corner First and Broadway, rebuilt as a four-story building with "castle-like" clock tower, opened 1912[18]
  4. 1935–2018, Times Mirror Square, the block bounded by First, Second, Spring streets and Broadway, Downtown Los Angeles
  5. 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.[19][20][21][22]

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.[23]

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 Comcast SportsNet 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.[24]

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.[25]

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, Hoy) to billionaire biotech investor Patrick Soon-Shiong.[26][27] 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.[28][29] The sale to Soon-Shiong closed on June 16, 2018.[30]

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.[31] 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.[32] 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 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.[33][34] 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.[35] 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.[36]

In September 2015, Austin Beutner, the publisher and chief executive, was replaced by Timothy E. Ryan.[37] 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.[38] On this subject, the Los Angeles Times reported with foresight: "For the 'funemployed,' unemployment is welcome."[39] Nancy Cleeland,[40] who took O'Shea's buyout offer, did so because of "frustration with the paper's coverage of working people and organized labor"[41] (the beat that earned her Pulitzer).[40] 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; she cited the paper's attempted hiring of a "celebrity justice reporter" as an example of the wrong approach.[41]

On August 21, 2017, Ross Levinsohn, then aged 54, was named publisher and CEO, replacing Davan Maharaj, who had been both publisher and editor.[42] On June 16, 2018, the same day the sale to Patrick Soon-Shiong closed, Norman Pearlstine was named executive editor.[30]

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 and leads The Undefeated, a site focused on sports, race, and culture. Previously, he was the first Black managing editor at The Washington Post.[43]

Circulation

The Times has suffered continued decline in distribution. Reasons offered for the circulation drop included a price increase[44] and a rise in the proportion of readers preferring to read the online version instead of the print version.[45] 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[ing] news on the Web and explain[ing] and analyz[ing] it in our newspaper."[46]

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.[47] 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.[15] 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.[48]

 
Abandoned Los Angeles Times vending machine in Covina, California, in 2011

The Times's reported daily circulation in October 2010 was 600,449,[49] down from a peak of 1,225,189 daily and 1,514,096 Sunday in April 1990.[50][51]

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.[52] The report, which condemned the Times as a "web-stupid" organization,[52] was followed by a shakeup in management of the paper's website,[53] , and a rebuke of print staffers who were described as treating "change as a threat."[54]

On July 10, 2007, Times launched a local Metromix site targeting live entertainment for young adults.[55] 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.[56] 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.[57] Brand X launched in March 2009; the Brand X tabloid ceased publication in June 2011 and the website was shut down the following month.[58]

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.[59][60]

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.[61]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 Wikitorial, 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.[62]

The Times drew fire for a last-minute story before the 2003 California recall election alleging that gubernatorial 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.[63][64] 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.[65]

On November 12, 2005, new op-ed editor Andrés Martinez announced the dismissal of liberal op-ed columnist Robert Scheer and conservative editorial cartoonist Michael Ramirez.[66]

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.[67]

Following the Republican Party's defeat in the 2006 mid-term elections, an Opinion piece by Joshua Muravchik, 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.[68]

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.[69] 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.[70]

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 Flavorwire, 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 [setting] 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".[71][72][73]

Pulitzer Prizes

 
Partial front page of the Los Angeles Times for Monday, April 24, 1922, displaying coverage of a Ku Klux Klan raid in an L.A. suburb

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.[74]

  • The Los Angeles Times received the 1984 Pulitzer Prize for Public Service for the newspaper series "Latinos".[75]
  • Times sportswriter Jim Murray won a Pulitzer in 1990.
  • Times investigative reporters Chuck Philips and Michael Hiltzik won the Pulitzer in 1999[76] for a year-long series that exposed corruption in the music business.[77]
  • 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, and an analysis of the policy reforms that had reduced the agency's effectiveness."[78] 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."[79]
  • 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."[80]
  • In 2016, the Times won the breaking news Pulitzer prize for its coverage of the mass shooting in San Bernardino, California.[81]
  • 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.[82]

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 Los Angeles Examiner as a direct morning competitor to the Times.[83] In the 20th century, the Los Angeles Express was an afternoon competitor, as was Manchester Boddy's Los Angeles Daily News, a Democratic newspaper.[84]

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 Los Angeles Examiner merged to become the Herald-Examiner.[85] 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.[86][87]

Special editions

Midwinter and midsummer

Midwinter

For 69 years, from 1885[88] 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 [Southern California] country that ever existed."[89] Two years later, the edition had grown to "forty-eight handsome pages (9×15 inches), [which] stitched for convenience and better preservation", was "equivalent to a 150-page book."[90] 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.[91]

The Midwinter Number drew acclamations from other newspapers, including this one from The Kansas City Star in 1923:

It is made up of five magazines with a total of 240 pages – the maximum size possible under the postal regulations. It goes into every detail of information about Los Angeles and Southern California that the heart could desire. It is virtually a cyclopedia on the subject. It drips official statistics. In addition, it verifies the statistics with a profusion of illustration. . . . it is a remarkable combination of guidebook and travel magazine.[92]

In 1948 the Midwinter Edition, as it was then called, had grown to "7 big picture magazines in beautiful rotogravure reproduction."[93] The last mention of the Midwinter Edition was in a Times advertisement on January 10, 1954.[94]

Midsummer

Between 1891 and 1895, the Times also issued a similar Midsummer Number, the first one with the theme "The Land and Its Fruits".[95] Because of its issue date in September, the edition was in 1891 called the Midsummer Harvest Number.[96]

Zoned editions and subsidiaries

 
Front page of the debut (March 25, 1903) issue of the short-lived The Wireless, published in Avalon[97]

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.[98] However, this effort apparently survived for only a little more than one year.[99]

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[quantify] were succeeded by Our Times, a group of community supplements included in editions of the regular Los Angeles Metro newspaper.[citation needed]

A subsidiary, Times Community Newspapers, publishes the Daily Pilot of Newport Beach and Costa Mesa.[100][101] From 2011 to 2013, the Times had published the Pasadena Sun.[102] 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.[103]

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.[citation needed]

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 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. It also won 62 awards at the SND[clarification needed] 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).[104] 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 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, 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.[105] In 2011, the Festival of Books was moved to the University of Southern California.[106]

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 is presented annually to a living author with a substantial connection to the American West whose contribution to American letters deserves special recognition".[107]

Los Angeles Times Grand Prix

From 1957 to 1987, the Times sponsored the Los Angeles Times Grand Prix 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, Matthew Bender, and Jeppesen.[108]

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.[109] 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.[108]

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.[110]

Broadcasting activities

Times-Mirror Broadcasting Company
 
FormerlyKTTV, Inc. (1947-1963)
TypePrivate
IndustryBroadcast television
Media
FoundedDecember 1947 (1947-12)
Defunct1993
FateAcquired by Argyle Television (sold to New World Communications in 1994)
Headquarters,
Area served
  United States
ProductsBroadcast and cable television
ParentThe Times-Mirror Company (1947–1963, 1970–1993)
Silent (1963–1970)

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, 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.[111] 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;[112] and in 1980 purchased a group of stations owned by Newhouse Newspapers: 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.[113] 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.[114] The remaining four outlets were packaged to a new upstart holding company, Argyle Television, in 1993.[115] 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

City of license / market Station Channel
TV / (RF)
Years owned Current ownership status
Birmingham WVTM-TV 13 (13) 1980–1993 NBC affiliate owned by Hearst Television
Los Angeles KTTV 1 11 (11) 1949–1963 Fox owned-and-operated (O&O)
St. Louis KTVI 2 (43) 1980–1993 Fox affiliate owned by Nexstar Media Group
Elmira, New York WETM-TV 18 (18) 1980–1986 NBC affiliate owned by Nexstar Media Group
Syracuse, New York WSTM-TV 3 (24) 1980–1986 NBC affiliate owned by Sinclair Broadcast Group
Harrisburg - Lancaster -
Lebanon - York
WHTM-TV 27 (10) 1980–1986 ABC affiliate owned by Nexstar Media Group
Austin, Texas KTBC-TV 7 (7) 1973–1993 Fox owned-and-operated (O&O)
Dallas - Fort Worth KDFW-TV 2 4 (35) 1970–1993 Fox owned-and-operated (O&O)

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.[116] 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

Cartoonists

Photographers

See also

References

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Further reading

External links

  • Official website  
  • Los Angeles Times Archives (1881 to present)
  • Los Angeles Times 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
  • at the Wayback Machine (archived December 21, 1996)
  • Los Angeles Times Photographic Archive (UCLA Library Guide)
  • Image of unidentified makers of the L.A. Times "Globe", Los Angeles, 1935. Los Angeles Times Photographic Archive (Collection 1429). UCLA Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library, University of California, Los Angeles.

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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 3 it is the sixth largest newspaper by circulation in the United States 4 The publication has won more than 40 Pulitzer Prizes It is owned by Patrick Soon Shiong and published by the Times Mirror Company 5 6 7 The newspaper s coverage emphasizes California and especially Southern California stories Los Angeles TimesThe July 10 2021 front pageof the Los Angeles TimesTypeDaily newspaperFormatBroadsheetOwner s Los Angeles Times Communications LLC Nant Capital Founder s Nathan Cole Jr Thomas GardinerPresidentDr Patrick Soon ShiongEditorKevin MeridaFoundedDecember 4 1881 141 years ago 1881 12 04 as Los Angeles Daily Times LanguageEnglishHeadquarters2300 E Imperial HighwayEl Segundo California 90245CountryUnited StatesCirculation142 382 Average print circulation 1 105 000 Digital 2018 2 ISSN0458 3035 print 2165 1736 web OCLC number3638237Websitelatimes wbr comMedia of the United StatesList of newspapersIn 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 8 The paper moved out of its historic downtown headquarters to a facility in El Segundo near Los Angeles International Airport in July 2018 Contents 1 History 1 1 Otis era 1 2 Chandler era 1 3 Former Times buildings 1 4 Modern era 1 4 1 Ownership 1 4 2 Editorial changes and staff reductions 1 4 3 Circulation 1 4 4 Internet presence and free weeklies 1 4 5 Other controversies 2 Pulitzer Prizes 3 Competition and rivalry 4 Special editions 4 1 Midwinter and midsummer 4 1 1 Midwinter 4 1 2 Midsummer 4 2 Zoned editions and subsidiaries 5 Features 6 Promotion 6 1 Festival of Books 6 2 Book prizes 6 3 Los Angeles Times Grand Prix 7 Other media 7 1 Book publishing 7 2 Broadcasting activities 7 2 1 Stations 8 Employees 8 1 Unionization 8 2 Writers and editors 8 3 Cartoonists 8 4 Photographers 9 See also 10 References 11 Further reading 12 External linksHistory EditSee also List of Los Angeles Times publishers Chandler and Otis in 1917 Otis era Edit 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 9 Otis made the Times a financial success Historian Kevin Starr wrote that Otis was a businessman capable of manipulating the entire apparatus of politics and public opinion for his own enrichment 10 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 11 Rubble of the L A Times building after the 1910 bombing 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 12 13 Chandler era Edit After Otis s death in 1917 his son in law Harry Chandler 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 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 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 14 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 15 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 16 The paper s early history and subsequent transformation was chronicled in an unauthorized history Thinking Big 1977 ISBN 0 399 11766 0 and was one of four organizations profiled by David Halberstam in The Powers That Be 1979 ISBN 0 394 50381 3 2000 reprint ISBN 0 252 06941 2 It has also been the whole or partial subject of nearly thirty dissertations in communications or social science in the past four decades 17 Former Times buildings Edit The 1886 Times building northeast corner 1st Broadway Times 1886 building after bombing on October 1 1910 1912 Times building demolished in 1938 Los Angeles Times Building corner of 1st Spring The 1948 Crawford Addition or Mirror Building NW corner 2nd Spring 2020 1973 Pereira Addition SE corner 1st Broadway1881 1886 Temple and New High streets in the Los Angeles central business district 18 1886 1910 northeast corner First and Broadway Los Angeles central business district destroyed in a bombing in 1910 18 1912 1935 northeast corner First and Broadway rebuilt as a four story building with castle like clock tower opened 1912 18 1935 2018 Times Mirror Square the block bounded by First Second Spring streets and Broadway Downtown Los Angeles 2018 present El Segundo California Modern era Edit Times newspaper vending machine featuring news of the 1984 Summer Olympics 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 19 20 21 22 Ownership Edit 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 23 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 Comcast SportsNet 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 24 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 25 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 Hoy to billionaire biotech investor Patrick Soon Shiong 26 27 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 28 29 The sale to Soon Shiong closed on June 16 2018 30 Editorial changes and staff reductions Edit In 2000 John Carroll former editor of the Baltimore Sun was brought in to restore the luster of the newspaper 31 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 32 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 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 33 34 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 35 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 36 In September 2015 Austin Beutner the publisher and chief executive was replaced by Timothy E Ryan 37 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 38 On this subject the Los Angeles Times reported with foresight For the funemployed unemployment is welcome 39 Nancy Cleeland 40 who took O Shea s buyout offer did so because of frustration with the paper s coverage of working people and organized labor 41 the beat that earned her Pulitzer 40 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 she cited the paper s attempted hiring of a celebrity justice reporter as an example of the wrong approach 41 On August 21 2017 Ross Levinsohn then aged 54 was named publisher and CEO replacing Davan Maharaj who had been both publisher and editor 42 On June 16 2018 the same day the sale to Patrick Soon Shiong closed Norman Pearlstine was named executive editor 30 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 and leads The Undefeated a site focused on sports race and culture Previously he was the first Black managing editor at The Washington Post 43 Circulation Edit The Times has suffered continued decline in distribution Reasons offered for the circulation drop included a price increase 44 and a rise in the proportion of readers preferring to read the online version instead of the print version 45 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 ing news on the Web and explain ing and analyz ing it in our newspaper 46 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 47 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 15 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 48 Abandoned Los Angeles Times vending machine in Covina California in 2011 The Times s reported daily circulation in October 2010 was 600 449 49 down from a peak of 1 225 189 daily and 1 514 096 Sunday in April 1990 50 51 Internet presence and free weeklies Edit 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 52 The report which condemned the Times as a web stupid organization 52 was followed by a shakeup in management of the paper s website 53 www latimes com and a rebuke of print staffers who were described as treating change as a threat 54 On July 10 2007 Times launched a local Metromix site targeting live entertainment for young adults 55 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 56 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 57 Brand X launched in March 2009 the Brand X tabloid ceased publication in June 2011 and the website was shut down the following month 58 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 59 60 Other controversies Edit 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 61 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 Wikitorial 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 62 The Times drew fire for a last minute story before the 2003 California recall election alleging that gubernatorial 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 63 64 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 65 On November 12 2005 new op ed editor Andres Martinez announced the dismissal of liberal op ed columnist Robert Scheer and conservative editorial cartoonist Michael Ramirez 66 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 67 Following the Republican Party s defeat in the 2006 mid term elections an Opinion piece by Joshua Muravchik 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 68 On March 22 2007 editorial page editor Andres 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 69 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 70 Further information Andres Martinez editor 22Grazergate 22 Controversy 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 Flavorwire 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 setting 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 71 72 73 Pulitzer Prizes Edit Partial front page of the Los Angeles Times for Monday April 24 1922 displaying coverage of a Ku Klux Klan raid in an L A suburb 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 74 The Los Angeles Times received the 1984 Pulitzer Prize for Public Service for the newspaper series Latinos 75 Times sportswriter Jim Murray won a Pulitzer in 1990 Times investigative reporters Chuck Philips and Michael Hiltzik won the Pulitzer in 1999 76 for a year long series that exposed corruption in the music business 77 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 and an analysis of the policy reforms that had reduced the agency s effectiveness 78 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 79 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 80 In 2016 the Times won the breaking news Pulitzer prize for its coverage of the mass shooting in San Bernardino California 81 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 82 Competition and rivalry EditIn 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 Los Angeles Examiner as a direct morning competitor to the Times 83 In the 20th century the Los Angeles Express was an afternoon competitor as was Manchester Boddy s Los Angeles Daily News a Democratic newspaper 84 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 Los Angeles Examiner merged to become the Herald Examiner 85 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 86 87 Special editions EditMidwinter and midsummer Edit Midwinter Edit For 69 years from 1885 88 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 Southern California country that ever existed 89 Two years later the edition had grown to forty eight handsome pages 9 15 inches which stitched for convenience and better preservation was equivalent to a 150 page book 90 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 91 The Midwinter Number drew acclamations from other newspapers including this one from The Kansas City Star in 1923 It is made up of five magazines with a total of 240 pages the maximum size possible under the postal regulations It goes into every detail of information about Los Angeles and Southern California that the heart could desire It is virtually a cyclopedia on the subject It drips official statistics In addition it verifies the statistics with a profusion of illustration it is a remarkable combination of guidebook and travel magazine 92 In 1948 the Midwinter Edition as it was then called had grown to 7 big picture magazines in beautiful rotogravure reproduction 93 The last mention of the Midwinter Edition was in a Times advertisement on January 10 1954 94 Midsummer Edit Between 1891 and 1895 the Times also issued a similar Midsummer Number the first one with the theme The Land and Its Fruits 95 Because of its issue date in September the edition was in 1891 called the Midsummer Harvest Number 96 Zoned editions and subsidiaries Edit Main article Los Angeles Times suburban sections Front page of the debut March 25 1903 issue of the short lived The Wireless published in Avalon 97 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 98 However this effort apparently survived for only a little more than one year 99 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 amp 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 quantify were succeeded by Our Times a group of community supplements included in editions of the regular Los Angeles Metro newspaper citation needed A subsidiary Times Community Newspapers publishes the Daily Pilot of Newport Beach and Costa Mesa 100 101 From 2011 to 2013 the Times had published the Pasadena Sun 102 It also had published the Glendale News Press and Burbank Leader from 1993 to 2020 and the La Canada Valley Sun from 2005 to 2020 103 On April 30 2020 Charlie Plowman publisher of Outlook Newspapers announced he would acquire the Glendale News Press Burbank Leader and La Canada 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 citation needed Features EditOne 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 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 It also won 62 awards at the SND clarification needed 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 104 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 has been included in the Sunday L A Times edition Promotion EditFestival of Books Edit 2009 Los Angeles Times Festival of Books on the UCLA campus In 1996 the Times started the annual Los Angeles Times Festival of Books 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 105 In 2011 the Festival of Books was moved to the University of Southern California 106 Book prizes Edit Main article Los Angeles Times Book Prize 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 is presented annually to a living author with a substantial connection to the American West whose contribution to American letters deserves special recognition 107 Los Angeles Times Grand Prix Edit From 1957 to 1987 the Times sponsored the Los Angeles Times Grand Prix that was held over at the Riverside International Raceway in Moreno Valley California Other media EditBook publishing Edit 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 Matthew Bender and Jeppesen 108 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 109 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 108 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 amp Company to form the Elsevier Health Sciences group 110 Broadcasting activities Edit Times Mirror Broadcasting Company FormerlyKTTV Inc 1947 1963 TypePrivateIndustryBroadcast televisionMediaFoundedDecember 1947 1947 12 Defunct1993FateAcquired by Argyle Television sold to New World Communications in 1994 HeadquartersLos Angeles California United StatesArea served United StatesProductsBroadcast and cable televisionParentThe Times Mirror Company 1947 1963 1970 1993 Silent 1963 1970 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 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 111 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 112 and in 1980 purchased a group of stations owned by Newhouse Newspapers 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 113 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 114 The remaining four outlets were packaged to a new upstart holding company Argyle Television in 1993 115 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 Edit City of license market Station ChannelTV RF Years owned Current ownership statusBirmingham WVTM TV 13 13 1980 1993 NBC affiliate owned by Hearst TelevisionLos Angeles KTTV 1 11 11 1949 1963 Fox owned and operated O amp O St Louis KTVI 2 43 1980 1993 Fox affiliate owned by Nexstar Media GroupElmira New York WETM TV 18 18 1980 1986 NBC affiliate owned by Nexstar Media GroupSyracuse New York WSTM TV 3 24 1980 1986 NBC affiliate owned by Sinclair Broadcast GroupHarrisburg Lancaster Lebanon York WHTM TV 27 10 1980 1986 ABC affiliate owned by Nexstar Media GroupAustin Texas KTBC TV 7 7 1973 1993 Fox owned and operated O amp O Dallas Fort Worth KDFW TV 2 4 35 1970 1993 Fox owned and operated O amp O 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 EditUnionization Edit 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 116 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 Edit Dean Baquet editor 2000 2007 Martin Baron assistant managing editor 1979 1996 James Bassett reporter editor 1934 1971 Skip Bayless sportswriter 1976 1978 Barry Bearak reporter 1982 1997 Jim Bellows 1922 2005 editor 1967 1974 Sheila Benson film critic 1981 1991 Martin Bernheimer music critic 1982 Pulitzer Prize for Criticism Bettina Boxall reporter 2009 Pulitzer Prize Jeff Brazil reporter 1993 2000 Harry Carr 1877 1936 reporter columnist editor John Carroll editor 2000 2005 Julie Cart reporter 2009 Pulitzer Prize Charles Champlin 1926 2014 film critic 1965 1980 Sewell Chan editor of the editorial page Michael Cieply entertainment writer Shelby Coffey III editor 1989 1997 K C Cole science writer Michael Connelly crime reporter novelist Borzou Daragahi Beirut bureau chief Manohla Dargis film critic Meghan Daum 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 Beijing bureau chief author Robert J Donovan 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 1930 2005 correspondent 1984 1994 Richard Eder 1932 2014 book critic 1987 Pulitzer Prize for Criticism Gordon Edes sportswriter 1980 1989 Helene Elliott sports columnist Leonard Feather 1914 1994 jazz critic Dexter Filkins foreign correspondent 1996 1999 Nikki Finke entertainment reporter Thomas Francis Ford 1873 1958 U S Congress member literary and rotogravure editor City Council member Douglas Frantz managing editor 2005 2007 Jeffrey Gettleman Atlanta bureau chief 1999 2002 Jonathan Gold food writer 2007 Pulitzer Prize Patrick Goldstein film columnist 2000 2012 Carl Greenberg 1908 1984 political writer Jean Guerrero opinion columnist Joyce Haber gossip columnist 1966 1975 Bill Henry 1890 1970 columnist 1939 1970 Robert Hilburn music writer 1970 2005 Shani Olisa Hilton deputy managing editor Michael Hiltzik 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 reporter 1976 1988 Jonathan Kaiman Asia correspondent 2015 2016 K Connie Kang 1942 2019 first female Korean American journalist Philip P Kerby 1976 Pulitzer Prize for Criticism Ann Killion sportswriter 1987 1988 Grace Kingsley 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 literary critic 117 118 David Lamb 1940 2016 correspondent 1970 2004 David Laventhol 1933 2015 publisher 1989 1994 David Lazarus business columnist Rick Loomis photojournalist 2007 Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Reporting Stuart Loory 1937 2015 White House correspondent 1967 1971 Steve Lopez columnist Charles Fletcher Lummis 1859 1928 city editor 1884 1888 Al Martinez 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 music journalist 1977 1998 Mary McNamara TV critic 2015 Pulitzer Prize for Criticism Doyle McManus Washington bureau chief Charles McNulty 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 Patt Morrison columnist Suzanne Muchnic art critic 1978 2009 Kim Murphy assistant managing editor for foreign and national news 2005 Pulitzer Prize Jim Murray 1919 1998 sports columnist 1990 Pulitzer Prize for Commentary Sonia Nazario feature writing 2003 Pulitzer Prize Dan Neil columnist 2004 Pulitzer Prize for Criticism Chuck Neubauer investigative journalist Ross Newhan baseball writer 1967 2004 Jack Nelson 1929 2009 political reporter 1960 Pulitzer Prize for Local Reporting 119 Anne Marie O Connor reporter Nicolai Ouroussoff architectural critic Scot J Paltrow financial journalist 1988 1997 Olive Percival columnist Bill Plaschke sports columnist Michael Parks foreign correspondent editor 1987 Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting Russ Parsons food writer Mike Penner 1957 2009 Christine Daniels sportswriter Chuck Philips investigative reporter 1999 Pulitzer Prize for Beat Reporting Michael Phillips film critic Charles T Powers foreign correspondent later novelist George Ramos 1947 2011 reporter 1978 2003 Richard Read reporter 1999 Pulitzer Prize 2001 Pulitzer Prize 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 columnist 1971 2011 Harriet Ryan Pulitzer Prize winning investigative reporter Ruth Ryon 1944 2014 real estate writer 1977 2008 Morrie Ryskind feature writer 1960 1971 Kevin Sack 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 reporter 1978 Pulitzer Prize Gene Sherman 1915 1969 reporter 1960 Pulitzer Prize Barry Siegel feature writing 2002 Pulitzer Prize T J Simers sports 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