by jpitney | May 22, 2024 | California Politics, Internet, Journalism, Journalists
George Skelton at LAT: Advertising money to pay reporters’ salaries has been hemorrhaging for years. Roughly two-thirds of California journalists have lost their jobs in the last two decades. More than 100 Times newsroom staffers were laid off in January. To their...
by jpitney | Dec 4, 2023 | Journalism, Journalists, Mass Media
Serge Schmemann at NYT writes about local media It was a school, too, for readers. The candidates in local elections or speakers at school board meetings dealt with matters that made a tangible and immediate difference to readers. Official corruption was not some...
by jpitney | May 1, 2020 | California Politics, Journalism, Newspapers
Meg James at The Los Angeles Times: Charlie Plowman, the owner of Outlook Newspapers in La Cañada Flintridge, has acquired the assets of three recently folded newspapers from the Los Angeles Times’ parent company. Plowman takes immediate ownership of the Burbank...
by jpitney | Apr 19, 2020 | California Politics, Newspapers
Newspapers were on the decline even before COVID-19 Now things are much worse as advertising has dried up. Meg James at The Los Angeles Times: The print industry’s demise has larger implications, Doctor and others say. Without reporters keeping tabs on city halls,...
by jpitney | Apr 17, 2020 | Coronavirus, Newspapers
Meg James at The Los Angeles Times: The Los Angeles Times’ parent company, California Times, is folding three award-winning community newspapers that serve the cities of Burbank, Glendale and La Cañada Flintridge. Fourteen staff members learned Thursday that they were...
