Weekly archive
July 3 - July 9, 2005
Friday, Jul. 8
The Observer has a new website design, new blogs and a new plan. Starting in August, it'll cost you a buck to read each week's stories online. Or you can... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
As we told you a few weeks back, the Times' Sunday Opinion section is being reinvented as a section called Current. It launches in this Sunday's paper with lede pieces... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
About calling 911, hospital ERs and extreme pain.... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Antonio Villaraigosa was up early and out on the streets Thursday to put on the right face in the aftermath of the London terrorist bombs. He appeared with Chief Bratton... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Thursday, Jul. 7
The Best of Alternative L.A. roundup in the L.A. Alternative Press decrees that the "best alternative to weapons of mass destruction" is a Pink’s double bacon Polish burger: It hits... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
The Dodgers lost another game today and another player to injury. This time it's not a sore hamstring or three, a hurt finger, a blown elbow or even chondromalacia—and it's... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
An investment research firm says General Motors' corporate decision to pull its ads from the Times is hurting the paper, but Times spokeswoman Martha Goldstein says "essentially all local dealers... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
I updated some behind the scenes stuff like the About page and the Advertisers Are Really Cool People page, so I ran the numbers for the first half of 2005.... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
In response to the London bombings, the LAPD is on modified tactical alert and the operations command center has been activated. It's a precaution and not due to a specific... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Steve Harvey's Only in L.A. column in today's Times points to a new website for rants, discussions and tips about traffic. The forums at The I Hate LA Traffic Homepage... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Wednesday, Jul. 6
The New York Times reporter who looked into the leak of CIA operative Valerie Plame's name by a Bush administration official—and who didn't publish the story—would not reveal her sources... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Eric Rose, Senior VP at Weber Shandwick PR, is leaving at the end of the week for a newly created position as Director of Communications for the Western Group for... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Rod Bernsen, the ex-LAPD cop who reported for FOX 11 News until last year, is handling fill-in talk host duties on KFI (640 AM). He sits in for John Ziegler... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Sheriff Lee Baca has launched LACountyMurders.com, a website to publicize homicide stats and spread information about suspects and victims. There is an edge of scare tactic about it. The site's... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Tuesday, Jul. 5
The only screenwriter to receive an honorary Oscar died on Saturday at age 89. The news didn't get out until today. The Writers Guild website's obituary calls Lehman "one of... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Just to follow-up from this morning's item, which did get a good bit of traffic and a Gawker link, the Newspaper Guild in the New York Times newsroom has gotten... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa announces his appointees to the MTA board and a deputy mayor for transportation tomorrow at the Patsaouras Plaza near Union Station. First he'll ride the Gold Line... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Editor Mark Lacter's back-page columns have been missing from the L.A. Business Journal for awhile, but this week he returns with a front-page chide (under his photo) directed at the... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Civil rights attorney Thomas Saenz is joining the Villaraigosa administration as the mayor's chief ethics officer and legal advisor. The L.A. Business Journal says Saenz has been vice president of... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Any late-comers will go at the bottom, as usual. Gustavo Arellano rates the new crop of Latino-oriented glossies in the OC Weekly. He gives Bello the edge over Tu Ciudad,... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
His landlord sold Tony Tocco's Lawndale house for condos, and now Tocco has to find a home for his unusual menagerie. He's got the usual dog, cat, snake and crows... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Journalists don't like to take tests, be told what to do or chat with PR folks on the phone. On two of those counts, reporters at the other Times aren't... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
The Times' Alan Abrahamson, in Singapore covering the politics of choosing a site for the 2012 Olympics, observes that the chief operating officer in Los Angeles for Anschutz Entertainment (Staples... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
For the journos out there, the key contacts in the mayor's press office are Press Secretary Joe Ramallo, who came from Villaraigosa's city council staff, and Janelle Erickson, most recently... $MTEntryExcerpt$>